The Dark Tale of France's Ruthless Queen | Catherine de' Medici

[@Sorchia56]

Yet another brilliant video. Catherine received such a bad reputation for someone who accomplished so much for France.

[@pascalswager9100]

She was My favourite character in reign. Might watch that series again actually.

[@jaybee4118]

Women are always vilified more than men.

[@petera618]

Legend has it that when Catherine arrived in France at the time, she was not impressed with French cooking or their eating habits. She later came with an entourage of Florentine cooks to prepare her meals. The Florentine court at the time was known for its culinary sophistication. This is supposedly where France's "Haute Cuisine" got its start.

[@CrustyUgg]

@@jaybee4118 oh stfu 😂 enough with the victim nonsense

[@Sirianstar10]

@@pascalswager9100 I'm watching REIGN again for the 5th time. I love it. I know it's Romantic Fantasy, not totally historic but l still enjoy every second of it.

[@charlotrisch5138]

I always was fascinated by Catherine Medici. She knew such interesting historical figures. Just her blood line alone is captivating. She may have poisoned people who knows. She was treated like crap most of her marriage. She was humiliated by her husband and his mistress. If anyone was nasty and full of themselves well that was Dianne the mistress... Loved when Catherine made Dianne give back crown jewels and kicked Dianne out of her gifted castle

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

She was a BAD bitch in the best possible ways. I fully respect her.

[@timefoolery]

Dianne de Poitiers wasn’t all that bad - Catherine would’ve never had children at all if Dianne hadn’t forced Henri to get Catherine pregnant because he needed an heir.

[@gailjones7044]

@@timefoolery Exactly! Dianne can't help she had the better 🐈.

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

It was survival pure survival

[@caleebpinkett6450]

@@timefoolery yessir!!!!! Diane even let Catherine watch her and Henri have sex to learn what to do.

[@nka8786]

She was not ruthless , she simply played the game of power better than the men around her

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

She was as she should be in The role of Queen who were in in This days 1oo % Rulers This TimE was differenT

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Her name was Medici. They should never have underestimated her, twat or not. One of my favorite’s to play in Civ 6.

[@mauricedavis2160]

EXACTLY!!!🙏👌💃❣️

[@empressluv2521]

Exactly

[@newyardleysinclair9960]

She was ruthless. Just like the men who act in a similar way. Stop making excuses for women. They can be as evil, clever and conniving as any man

[@SeldimSeen1]

She was much maligned due to lies and rumors. She actually sounds pretty amazing to me.

[@racheallange2056]

Love your uploads...You put a lot of work into them, and I appreciate that.

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks very much!

[@relaxsleeprechargerepeat]

You make it look so easy FL 🙌

[@dirtygiraffe]

You should make a video about Marie deGuise, the mother of Mary Queen of Scots. She was quite the woman. She is often overshadowed by her more famous daughter, but her own life and story is just as interesting.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

The Bloody Mary lady?

[@dirtygiraffe]

@@ashleelarsen7765 No, "Bloody Mary", or Queen Mary I, was the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. The half sister of Queen Elisabeth I.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

@@dirtygiraffe oOo, ya that would be a "forgotten life" sorry!

[@dirtygiraffe]

@@ashleelarsen7765 No need for a sorry!=) It's easy to mix up the Marys. Both were queens at approximately the same time, and neither had a very happy life. Also, I think Elizabeth I and Mary I(the daughters of Henry VIII) were cousins of Mary Queen of Scots. Edit: Checked. They were first cousins once removed through Henry VII.

[@centigradz2centigradz289]

She was Italian but had to leave her country to b a queen in a completely different country to an unfaithful husband. She had to endure the pain of seeing some of her sons die before her. And her sons didn't produce heirs and the Valois reign stopped abruptly. She wasn't even buried in Paris and she was extremely disheartened with life when she was dying.

[@DenethordeSade.90]

Aw poor baby

[@Miss_Wonderful1]

I don't know now, but when I was a kid throughout elementary and middle school, and later superior school, we were never taught the history of Caterina de' Medici and the Medici in general in such a detailed and truly educational manner. And my country is Italy 😑

[@lillium4139]

I hear you there. In my country they don't talk about how most of the founding fathers were slave owners and wanted to keep it that way. Or how they belonged to secret societies and did horrible perverted acts. But that's the educational system in America 😔. I learned more about the true history of this country after I got out of school then while I attended.

[@cthulhupriestess]

Yikes

[@ah5721]

history is written by men for men

[@sarascarpati887]

hello, fellow italian! i think i can say the same thing

[@aureliengdt5932]

An italien murder

[@caramia4143]

I'm not sure how accurate the paintings are but wow, this is the first time I see such a strong resemblance between parents and their children back then. It doesn't look like they were simply painted in the style of what the beauty standards for men and women were in those times. Seems like Catherine de Medici was always painted to look haughty and judgemental or was that just how her face always was lol

[@tiggercampbell6198]

today it's called resting bitch face..lol

[@irenabevans3411]

A strong character who knew how to keep a reasonably stable power base while under extreme personal loss, constantly having to groom a new successor to the throne

[@yarrowwitch]

Thank you for such a fair portrayal of Catherine, whose life must have been almost incredibly difficult.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

He didn't like her, but they had 10 kids. That's freaking torture, I would have walked into the ocean.

[@angelagendreau3586]

My 10th great-grandfather was murdered this day. He was a Huguenot. The rest of the family fled France and never returned.

[@garylefevers]

For so!e bizarre reason, men in general, are threatened by strong women. I never understood such things. My wife is a strong women, my mother as well. I love them.

[@2ctheocean]

It usually happens when men grow up in hypermasculine houses where the fathers see their wives as servants and sex objects rather than partners. They copy what they know, and when a woman defies that norm (except for her children, sometimes that is acceptable) it threatens that inherited belief system.

[@M500VYN]

You did it!! Well done on reaching 200k Nico 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks 😊

[@relaxsleeprechargerepeat]

I can’t wait to hit 10k so you must be over the moon with 200k! Fully deserved though!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Diane also got a castle on a river in France I just remember Catherine tried to blend her and her husband's initials but it always came up a D it drove her mad, A Huguenot fled to Russia who was a jeweler and became a favorite of the Czar their name was Peter Carl Faberge I read his biography and I also read about the massacre of those Huguenots tragic

[@ForgottenLives]

Very interesting, thanks 😊

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

@@ForgottenLives I wasn't expecting a reply from you check out Castles of the world, it's an old show, this is where I learned that. :)

[@ForgottenLives]

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 I reply when I can!!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

:)

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

@@ForgottenLives I really appreciate everything and that you put up with me but you don't have to I know you are very busy and I know sometimes I do give a calm comment now and again. thank you and your very welcomed

[@thelittlemermaid9282]

While Catherine’s husband was obviously apathetic, his apparent lack of attraction for her in the early years of their marriage was not necessarily a bad thing for her. For her reputation, certainly, but not for her. Remember, she was fourteen when they married, so it just looks like her husband wasn’t a hebephile. This was good for Catherine because it gave her body time to fully develop before she had children. Teenage pregnancies are notoriously dangerous for the mothers and children. This also is probably why she was able to conceive so many children. Her body was strong enough to carry and bear them due to the fact that it hadn’t been irreversibly damaged in her formative years. It could also be argued that he was grooming her during the ten year period before they began having children, but he was running around a lot with women his age and older, so . . . He wasn’t a good person, but he also wasn’t a child molester. It appears he outright refused to sleep with a fourteen year old, which, at any time before the 1700’s, was a statistical anomaly in the monarchies of Europe. So, yay?

[@ah5721]

many people didn't marry until late teens early 20s I that age. Royals married younger but didn't except babies until most women were late teens aka 18 or 19

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

@@ah5721 16 is the baby carrying age

[@kasajizo3136]

Grooming don't exist in 1500s its a modern term created by our modern society

[@thelittlemermaid9282]

Well, this is concerning. Just because something didn’t have a name doesn’t mean it wasn’t wrong. And most teenage girls’ hips aren’t developed enough to give birth. There are so many dangerous injuries that can result from teenage births, such as obstetric fistulas, which are holes that form in between body cavities, such as the birth canal, the rectum and the bladder (causing life-long incontinence if not treated), severe perennial tearing, which happens anyway but is more dangerous for underaged mothers, diastasis recti, the separation of the abdominal muscles from carrying a baby (which also commonly happens in adult women), and even pubic symphysis separation, which happens when the pelvis literally splits the pubic joint in half, causing the woman to be debilitated for six to eight months, possibly even needing surgery. None of these would have been treatable or curable back then. Child marriage and grooming were, are, and will forever be horrible things, no matter when they happen.

[@trudehallerud1839]

He was also only 14 years old, and probably he was malested by a grown women how groomed him.

[@grapeshot]

Well yes I have heard she was a big fan of Nostradamus.

[@saibliss7976]

Beautifully presented...loved the visuals and the depth of information you provided. Thank You ✨👌🙏

[@melsterifficmama1808]

Great story, well researched and well told. Thanks!

[@tracycraft2971]

Beautiful pronunciations!! So many get those wrong! Love your work!

[@phineas117]

excellent as always. could you do one on Florence Nightingale? everyone knows she was "the lady with the lamp" in the Crimea.....but after this....she was a neurotic who took to her bed and was waited on hand and foot. much more to miss floss!!!!

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Even saints had their faults; goes with the 'territory' of being human sad to say. Saints were sinners who kept on trying.

[@jaybee4118]

@@catholiccrusader5328 saints are just people who have had magical powers ascribed to them.

[@kaitlinconnors7413]

I’m a nurse so we have to learn about Florence Nightingale. Most scholars believe she may have been Bipolar….

[@jerichothirteen1134]

When asked to predict how he would die. Nostradamus told Henry that he would have his eye put out and die in great agony inside a golden cage. Henry died when the tip of a lance went up through he grill of his gold jousting helmet into his eye. It took him more than a week to die.

[@christinebuckingham8369]

Wow, that was a very eerie prediction.

[@jerichothirteen1134]

@@christinebuckingham8369 Nostradamus wasn't a famous seer for no reason. There are a few other amazing predictions he made that came true in his lifetime.

[@jaybee4118]

@@jerichothirteen1134 yeah, but he made a massive amount of “predictions”. I’d get a few amazing predictions right in my lifetime, and the 500 years after my death if I made the huge amount of vague and poetic predictions he did. You can make anything fit if you make them vague enough. That and there’s over 900 in just one book! You can’t call his prophecies anything other than scattering handfuls of sand in the wind and hoping some of the grains hit the target. Same as all the other soothsayers, seers and psychics that have ever been.

[@jerichothirteen1134]

@@jaybee4118 what a load of nonsense and typical of the ignorance programmed in by this unkind system. You are so ignorant that you think its a virtue. Nostradamus was a genius and also famous as a physician for treating the black death. He was the only doctor in France with a 100% survival rate amongst his patients. He was a sage and a healer not a charlatan. You shoul be ashamed of yourself for he was certainly smarter than you no matter what age he was born in. As for the "poetic predictions" I assume youvare refering to the Quatrains? Do you have any idea how those predictions were acquired? Do you think he got a bottle of wine and a rhyming dictionary and got to work? When he was finished The Quatrains were deliberately broken up so that they couldn't be used by the morons. Because they woud think it was just poetry they could write themselves. 😉 There is a hidden key in the quatrains that will allow them to be reconstructed correctly by the right people.

[@DenethordeSade.90]

​@@jerichothirteen1134yes he was, he was a charlatan.

[@annfisher3316]

Well deserved reaching 200,000 subscribers, your videos are fabulous. Congratulations! 👏👍✌😊

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks so much:)

[@merrymerry2906]

The way they portrayed her as haughty and contemptuous in the 1st painting

[@lynnebunning7273]

Your videos are so interesting & enjoyable. Found fascinating that the people did not live long lives between 50-60 years. Cheers from Victoria Australia🇦🇺🐨👍😊😊😊😊😊

[@sailorniburu411]

Love your content! I hope you get all the subs!!!❤️

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks 😊

[@meatloafandme]

Sit back relax and enjoy Congratulations on 200k x

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks 😊

[@meatloafandme]

@@ForgottenLives love your voice and the way you tell these forgotten lives Love you other channel never stop please

[@alesiahowington5507]

Thank you for the video!!!

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Perhaps Queen Catherine should have issued an edict of toleration permitting both religions to practice equally as they wanted. Maybe she should have also made it a law that each religion's sacred symbols and ministers shouldn't be harmed and if anybody digressed from that law should expect quick and dire punishment from the Throne.

[@ah5721]

both sides would have been angry. we don't know what was happening behind the scenes . it didn't help she was seen as a quaisie ruler of the throne

[@auntmaddie]

I've studied her for years, This is absolutely fantastic! She's tough to find info on. Great job! Wonderful details!

[@ardenalexa94]

Hard to find reliable info especially.

[@wrongsalvation8904]

Great video as always BTW your new haircut looks nice

[@ELKE-]

To celebrate your 200K⭐ I'll relisten this awesome video again! Congratulations FLives! So, 300K will be here soon, because your fabulous work! Thank you

[@ForgottenLives]

Thanks very much, I hope so 🙏

[@ELKE-]

@@ForgottenLives You will! You deserve it!🙌🏻

[@myozbubble]

Great research and information. The Queen didn't get treated as well as she should have been. Even though she was royalty, she didn't have it easy in many ways.

[@charlotrisch5138]

Was amazes me about her is she did so much for France and was treated so badly by her husband and France.

[@ELKE-]

Great time for great story FLives! Awesome work video. Thank you

[@ForgottenLives]

My pleasure!

[@ELKE-]

@@ForgottenLives Thank you! :) It was awesome! Good night

[@ForgottenLives]

@@ELKE- you too 😁

[@ELKE-]

@@ForgottenLives Congratulations!😁👍🏻

[@leegalen8383]

These are very well done!

[@_luckicharms]

Your voice is so relaxing

[@freckles0829]

It's always a joy when I see a new video has been posted by @ForgottenLives 😊 I thought I knew alot about Catherine, but your vast knowledge always guarantees that learn something fascinating and new, and today is no exception of course! Thank for all you do kind sir!! 👍❤👏🔮👑

[@relaxsleeprechargerepeat]

Well done for achieving 200k! 👌

[@douglasmcfadden9153]

So glad i can put this on repeat all night thank you

[@jared1870]

Oh yeah! Fresh Catherine de Medici. Thank you!

[@relaxsleeprechargerepeat]

Great work FL - another fascinating story 👌

[@hkbabel]

Thank you so much, and Happy New Year!

[@primesspct2]

I knew so little about her, thank you for broadening my horizons!

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Congrats on 200K subs!

[@sunnyblueskies6505]

I love these videos! You are way more interesting than any history instructor of whose class I’ve been a part. Keep up the great work!

[@gaiacipriano3936]

Beautiful video! One little thing: it's de Mèdici✨

[@bobbyrutherford9359]

I am always impressed how good the content is on this channel

[@veramae4098]

Events and consequences: During WW 2 the Huguenots amazingly hid 5,000 Jews. And in the region there were only about 5,000 Huguenots! The H. remembered, could not forget, how viciously they'd been persecuted and so they helped these others being persecuted. The Germans knew, how could they not, but sometimes turned a blind eye if paid bribes, while some commanders tried to round up the Jews. Two Huguenot Pastors were sent to Concentration Camps and died there, but never gave up any secrets. A son of one of the Huguenots who later immigrated to America, heard bits and pieces of the story and dedicated himself to finding out more. He eventually made a profound documentary; I'm sorry, I saw it on YT but don't remember it's name.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Well, she was the mother of Kings and Queens of future ones and hung on Michel Nostrodamus' predictions like others before her I believe others cause the massacre and slaughter but there's always room for conjecture She married her son to Mary Queen of Scots but he died not long after

[@jodyharnish9104]

An excellent video, as always!

[@MsLogjam]

I've often wondered if Mary Queen of Scots would have done better if she hadn't been taken to France and given over to Catherine and the Guises.

[@GriffithsJacqueline]

Great piece. Love the stories of that era. Thank you. 🤗

[@lisalovelace6784]

I found her one of the most interesting Queens, how she started out was pretty rough losing her parents at such a young age and forced into a marriage. Her family tree is very interesting also, I just watched a series called, 'Medici' and it was very good and so fascinating.

[@labitcoineragt3596]

Ok, after watching a couple of your videos I realize I need to subscribe to lol.

[@BJ-yy6ei]

He is so smart and dreamy and can pronounce all the foreign words…just fantastic to watch

[@leisacoelho2551]

Always a pleasure , excellent presentation accompanied by historical art works , it is amazing how much detailed information you can cram into less than twenty minutes , also the sound quality is loud and clear very much appreciated, keep up the good work and thank you .

[@gonefishing167]

She was actually an amazing woman and, with help not hindrance, could have done a lot of good. I’m afraid then, as now, more is done for grabbing of power not the good of the country 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Now ain't that the truth.

[@rebeccamay6735]

Great video! Keep up the good work.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah when they speak of St. Bartholomew's Massacre they said that was the only time in King Charles's life anybody actually seen him smile.

[@ForgottenLives]

That sounds so terrible and frightening 😱

[@grapeshot]

@@ForgottenLives The pope at that time had a special medallion commissioned to celebrate the event.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

@@grapeshot that was just plain dumb of the pope; simply stupid!

[@jannetteberends8730]

You changed my whole view on Catherine. I’m Dutch and even on school I learned how she massacred the Huguenots.

[@nassimboussaadia6720]

Propaganda

[@ludovicleprinceroyal8721]

Well, those protestants aren't going to slaughter themselves!

[@pricklypear7516]

Amusing that the Catholics are so dead set against birth control. The Church historically has been the biggest contributor to curbing over-population.

[@catholiccrusader5328]

@@pricklypear7516 man that's funny as hell! (lol!) I guess you were alluding to people removers such as the Inquisition, Spanish exiling of Jews, Muslims and Cathars am I right?

[@catholiccrusader5328]

The Crusades too? Just curious. (lol!)

[@tahira1]

Very interesting thank you 😊

[@feralbluee]

i’m learning so much history from you. i was able this time to connect various facts i knew in limbo. like, oh, that’s what that was about. i was able to connect the Huguenots to France to the Nantes edict. and learned about a Queen of France who was never crowned. where would France be without her?! thanks much 🇫🇷⛲️🌷🌱

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thank you I had to watch this again.👍🏼🌹

[@ForgottenLives]

Wonderful!

[@cadillacdeville5828]

These uploads are 👌💕🥰🔥

[@ForgottenLives]

Ty 😊

[@globetrotter5800]

This is very perplexing. So many of twists and things that make me go 'hummm '. ie...husband dying suddenly, what happened to her lady in waiting, the meeting of Nostradamus ( I'm a Hugh fan of BTW), etc...

[@engledelaffety4380]

Slightly sexist title, the GREAT Catherine Medici was not 'evil' she did what she had to do to survive. Is King Henry the 8th referred to as 'evil' ? Catherine was an amazing Queen.

[@EleanoRa99]

Agreed!

[@aureliengdt5932]

Yes a great politic woman

[@feralbluee]

thank you so much. your research is amazing. it is also so great that you cover history throughout Europe et al. since we here in amurica get lots about English history (not Irish, Scottish, or Welsh, for that matter), it’s a a pleasure and so very interesting to hear the history of Europe as a whole. thanks again. keep safe 😋🌷🌱💶🇪🇺

[@skeletontoes7692]

Great video. The Medici giraffe by Marina Belozerskaya is a good nonfiction read about animals in the ancient world. A lot of cruelty, but a fascinating read.

[@ertjiesb4158]

I wonder if Cersei (from GOT) was based on Catherine. Or atleast parts of her story.

[@TheRetirednavy92]

Well done again. I think she just had jealous men bad mouthing her.

[@joshuafess6201]

Be lovely to see one on Maria I of Portugal 🇵🇹

[@user-cj6yw5fu4l]

Thanks for a great video,I think,that to stay alive,in those days was,a tremendous achievement,

[@caleebpinkett6450]

You should do a video about Catherine’s half black and Italian half brother Alessandro de Medici The Black Prince of Florence!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@TheFiddle101]

Excellent. I grew up in France and was told that she was the mastermind of the massacre. A very interesting correction, thank you.

[@yefroger3181]

Just a small remark, Alençon, has a c with a comma attached, so it should be pronounced Alensson

[@yefroger3181]

And I'd like to add that the content is pleasing and generally precise

[@59tante]

Loved this

[@christopherellis2663]

Henry IIX of England had a similar accident. Huguenots, along with Anglicans, are Calvinists. The number of churches that they destroyed did not endear them to the French in general. Thereafter the Edict of Nantes was revoked.

[@borleyboo5613]

There was never a Henry 11X of England. There was a Henry 11 but the last Henry was Henry V111.

[@patriciajrs46]

If you meant Henry the eighth, that is not the proper Roman numeral. It's interesting all the same.

[@CountessKitten]

Louis XIV revoked they edict of Nantes in the late 1600s.

[@maltesemike9114]

Keep up the great narrating 🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧😇😇😇😇😇😇🤕🤕🤕😇😇😇😇

[@busammodapranathi284]

I think she is a brilliant queen. The masses certainly did not like a Lady ruling over. Yes she is Ruthless for a cause. i really loved this story

[@johnanthonylucock7833]

An excellent video

[@ForgottenLives]

Thank you !

[@iseejewelz3874]

DAAAAMN you are GORGEOUS 😍

[@JelMain]

The focus wasn't on Nostradamus, but on Ruggieri.

[@michellecrocker2485]

I like to think that much of what’s been said could be based off slander because women often get vilified for being bold in their power

[@catholiccrusader5328]

The racist D. W. Griffith's movie 'Intolerance' contributed to the lies about Queen Catherine as well as black people with his 'Birth of a Nation.' Not a nice person who even beat up one of his staff for disagreeing with him on the set.

[@elizabethellis9062]

Very well done 😊

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

La Reine Margot was a great, if not terribly accurate, movie about the events before and after the massacre. Catherine wasn't portrayed particularly well (no surprise), but it was still horribly entertaining.

[@s.v.2796]

One of my favorite movies! As you say- not terribly accurate, yet evocative

[@patriciajrs46]

Why would you use horribly as an adjective in this context? Perhaps frightfully?

[@s.v.2796]

@@patriciajrs46 frightfully is more British. As this is not a place where i would expect to be corrected for my word choice, I'll nonetheless explain. I used horribly as i had in mind the filming of the carnage surging the massacre of the protestants. It's been years since I've seen La Reine Margot yet those scenes were so graphic they remain when I think of the movie.

[@patriciajrs46]

@@s.v.2796 Okay. Thank you.

[@s.v.2796]

@@patriciajrs46 NP, didn't mean to sound snarky, it's difficult to know how you come across when only using text! ☺️

[@fiachramaccana280]

Her role in the attempted assasination of Coligny and subsequent massacre is debated. She isn't innocent by any stretch Her main motive always was to keep her family in power and keep her personal dominance over her son the King. Coligny was a grave threat given his friendship with her son. The failed assasination created an atmosphere of great tension. Like two scorpions circling somebody had to strike first. Her daughter's records strongly suggest Catherine persuaded the King to strike first. Out of fear more than anything.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

When The King died DianE's influence ended Easy as ThaT

[@TheOriginalHut]

Maybe she was ruthless, even so, she was a young woman who found herself in a tank of sharks that is the monarchy, it’s either become the most vicious shark in the tank or get eaten alive.

[@romewilliams3526]

Do you do interviews?

[@chrissybarr7508]

I think Catherine was persecuted because she was a strong woman who obviously had a bad side but as always the church and any man of “importance” were threatened because it was a woman who had held the position of power

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Catherine was my kinda women.

[@takohamoolsen2432]

HRH Princess Michael of Kent wrote a fabulous book "The Serpent and the Moon". Give it a read. She herself is related to both Catherine and Diane.

[@marlsberlin7716]

Mèdici- it's pronounced like 'medi.(c)' + chi= Mè!-dichi = (chi like in Shang-Chi like you did).

[@nurmaybooba]

Thank-you, this was so interesting....I always enjoyed history but many professors were ...well not into details just the lurid highlights that are not always turth.

[@abcxyz8116]

Thus man has great videos.

[@patriciajrs46]

Does anyone know who painted that naked man painting? This IA very good video. Well done.

[@ladyhonor822]

I love story books 📚📚📚

[@janicenowicki9044]

There is a TV show (NetFlix?) called "Reign" that chronicles this period in history. Much is probably embellished though for dramatic effect...