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Catherine de Medici, the only daughter of a wealthy family, married a French prince. She became a beggar overnight, from a silver spoon in her mouth to a dirt spoon in her mouth. She was treated as an ugly beggar at the French court. Her love for her husband ended after a lifetime of unrequited love. She loved her husband, King Henri II, so much, but by his side was her husband's lover, an old vixen named Diane Poitier, who was twenty years her senior...