The Rival Queens: Catherine de’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

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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 in their tempestuous and dangerous century.

Set in magnificent Renaissance France, that is the tale of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm.

Catherine de’ Medici was once a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous “Queen Margot,” was once a passionate free spirit, the one adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor regulate.

When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, after which uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but in addition a potent rival within her own circle of relatives.

Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone’s narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, inter-national espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the actual nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.

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