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Review: Nancy Goldstone ‘The Rival Queens’

by Anna Jenkin on August 27, 2015

Nancy Goldstone’s The Rival Queens: Catherine de Medici, Marguerite de Valois and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom takes the form of a dual biography of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, and her daughter,

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