The play is based on Leonie Frieda's book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France. Justin Haythe, the screenwriter of Revolutionary Road, is in charge of the screenplay, and Stacie Passon directs many episodes, including the premiere. Catherine de Medici, Italian aristocrat and queen of France. She was the wife of King Henry II of Valois and the mother of three subsequent kings and had a great influence in France in the 16th century. Catherine was regarded as an ordinary and insignificant foreigner. As an orphan, she married to the French court at the age of 14, was expected to bring a large dowry and had many heirs, only to find that her husband fell in love with an older woman. The dowry was not paid and she was unable to have children. However, with sheer ingenuity and determination, she managed to maintain her marriage and mastered the core of the monarchy better than anyone else, ruling France for 50 years.
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