> 'Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France. GGA - Good Girl Art Painted Cover (illustrator). And, tortured by what she sees, Catherine becomes dangerously occupied by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn be a Medici heir.' > RARE book Number, for Collectors trying to assemble a Set of the Vintage Harlequin 1-500 Books > RARE in this FIRST Paperback Printing Edition ** EXTRA Tough in Nice Condition Size: 12mo - over 6¾' - 7¾' Tall. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers.

Amid the glittering fetes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride becomes a passionate but unwanted wife. On the promise of a dowry fit for a king, Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future for a stake in the French crown.

Sullen-eyed and broken-hearted, fourteen-year-old Catherine de'Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry of Orleans, second son of the King of France.

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