Catherine de' Medici has gone down in history as The Serpent Queen, but did she really poison a queen with deadly gloves, practise the dark arts and keep a squad of seductive female spies?
On this day in Tudor history, 5 January 1589, Catherine de' Medici, Queen Consort and Queen Regent of France, passed away. Her legacy? A swirl of dark legends, court intrigues, and tales of power, ambition, and tragedy.
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