The Medici Queen aka The Devil’s Queen

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My wise and patient editors, Charles Spicer of St. Martin’s Press and Emma Coode of HarperCollins UK

My friend, reader, and editor extraordinaire, Sherry Gottlieb

My best friend for life, Helen King Knight

Tom Jacobs, evolutionary astrologer

Christopher Warnock, Renaissance astrologer

Nina Toumanoff, who helped me rediscover the joy of writing

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Blois, France

August 1556

At first glance he was an unremarkable man, short and stout with graying hair and the drab clothes of a commoner. I could not see his face from my vantage two floors above, but I watched him recoil as he emerged from the carriage and his foot first met the cobblestone; he signaled for his cane and reached for the coachman’s arm. Even with these aids, he moved gingerly, haltingly through the sultry morning, and I thought, aghast, He is a sick, aging man-nothing more.

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