The riveting true story of mother-and-Daughter queens Catherine de\' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.
The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate..
Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story That includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus.
Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone\'s narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic.
When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent Rival within her own family.
Her youngest Daughter Marguerite, the glamorous Queen Margot, was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control.
Catherine de\' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years.
Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and Daughter driven into opposition by a terrible Betrayal That threatened to destroy the realm.
The riveting true story of mother-and-Daughter queens Catherine de\' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century
