Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in ... years after their marriage that Catherine gave birth to their first child. This greatly improved the queen’s position and the couple ...

Such becomes clear from Mary Hollingsworth’s “Catherine de’ Medici,” a granular biography of a woman often maligned as “the ...

And Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France, made sure she was informed of the intrigues at court by expressly employing a group of pretty young women to engage in pillow talk with gullible male ...

Starz is celebrating Women’s History Month all through March with a string of TV series about extraordinary women. And while ...