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Greg Jenner

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You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

You should film this podcast.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Like a fluffer. Like a fluffer, yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Like a fluffer. Like a fluffer, yeah.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

And drinking donkey piss, of course.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

And drinking donkey piss, of course.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Not just donkey piss, but also wearing cow dung poultices all over the body as well. And grounding up stag antler horn as well.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Not just donkey piss, but also wearing cow dung poultices all over the body as well. And grounding up stag antler horn as well.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

You grind it up and you drink it. Disgusting.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

You grind it up and you drink it. Disgusting.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

And they have how many children? Ten. Ten.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

And they have how many children? Ten. Ten.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

But I need this woman.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

But I need this woman.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

So the ten children, we'll have to rattle through them because we haven't got all day. So the ten children, the sons, so seven survive. The sons are François, Charles, Henri, Hercule.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

So the ten children, we'll have to rattle through them because we haven't got all day. So the ten children, the sons, so seven survive. The sons are François, Charles, Henri, Hercule.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Yeah. And then the daughters are Elizabeth... Elizabeth. Claude and Margaret. Yeah. Who marries Henri of Navarre, which will become important in the future. And Elizabeth will marry Philip II of Spain, also important in the future. So she's done her dynastic duty, Chappie. Ten kids, seven survive. But in 1547, King François I died.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Yeah. And then the daughters are Elizabeth... Elizabeth. Claude and Margaret. Yeah. Who marries Henri of Navarre, which will become important in the future. And Elizabeth will marry Philip II of Spain, also important in the future. So she's done her dynastic duty, Chappie. Ten kids, seven survive. But in 1547, King François I died.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

So the kind of the king who had sort of taken under his wing and taught her to ride.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

So the kind of the king who had sort of taken under his wing and taught her to ride.

You're Dead to Me
Catherine de’ Medici: the real Serpent Queen of France

Yeah, that's it. But she is elevated. Her husband is now the king of France. So she is the queen of France.