Estelle Paranque's Blood, Fire and Gold compares the two women who dominated 16th-century Europe: Elizabeth I and the widowed French queen
Frenemies: Elizabeth I in the Woburn Abbey version of the Armada Portrait, left; and Catherine de Medici, widow of Henry II of France, 1580, rightIn Francis Bacon’s assessment, “the only pair of female princes, from whom, for experience and arts of government, there was no less expected than from the greatest kings”, England’s Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, the widow of the French king Henry II and mother of three of his successors, dominated English and French political life for half a...
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