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Episode 61: The Favorite

With an atrocity between them, Catherine de’ Medici’s relationship with her son King Charles IX falls apart. She can take pride in her favorite son Henri’s election as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, although unfortunately her beloved child decides he hates his new job.

“Golden Liberty”, a painting imagining the election of Henri de Valois in 1573 as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania by Jan Matejko (1889). Source: Royal Castle of Warsaw.
A contemporaneous portrait of King Henri III of France, wearing a Polish hat, by Étienne Dumonstier (c. 1583). Source: National Museum-Poznań.

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