Duke Alessandro de’ Medici enters a deadly contest with his cousin, Cardinal Ippolito. The real threat, however, may be closer to home.

Transcript
So I hope you weren’t expecting for me to update you on French history up to the point of Catherine’s marriage in 1533. But for this episode I will give you a crash course on France’s monarchy, the institution that Catherine found herself literally wedded to, and what it meant to be a woman within it.
