On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become ...

France was a country torn apart by years of religious and civil wars when Marie de Medici married King Henri IV in 1600. It was one of the unhappiest royal marriages of all time. Desperate for power, ...

Cosimo de’ Medici, known as Cosimo the Elder (1389–1464), was the founder of the Medici dynasty and one of the most influential figures in the 15th-century Florence. A banker and statesman, Cosimo was ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families at their time, beginning with Cosimo de’ Medici, in the first half of the 15th century ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born on April 13, 1519, in Florence, Italy. Wife of Henry II and Queen of France from 1547 to 1559, she was also the mother of three kings of France: Francis II, Charles IX, ...

“I think it’s a really fun era,” Minnie Driver told IndieWire of her career. “This is my chaos era. This is great!” Equal parts Alexis Carrington and Patsy Stone, Driver’s Elizabeth is flirty, flinty, ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine dynast ...

Revolutionary Road screenwriter Justin Haythe discusses his move into television as the showrunner of Samantha Morton-led historical drama The Serpent Queen, why Catherine de Medici is “infinitely ...

Catherine de' Medici has met her match. The latest episode of The Serpent Queen introduces a new rival for the 16th-century ruler: Queen Elizabeth I. Played by Minnie Driver, this version of the ...