History’s Most Powerful Mistress Paid A Dark Price D
Henry belongs with me Queen Katherine deichi hated Diane deti for stealing her husband King Henry still Diane flaunted the affair in the Queen’s face but when Catherine got revenge it was jaw-droppingly [Music] brutal born into an aristocratic family in January of 1500 Diane grew up wanting for app absolutely nothing and had close ties to the French throne her father Jean detier was one of the most cunning Nobles of his day and Diane had inherited his intelligence and his ambition two very dangerous things for a woman of the time to possess when Diane was only 15 years old her well-to-do family put her on the marriage Market hoping to cart their girl off into an advantageous match their plan worked too well and Diane
caught the eye of Lou de brezi a grandson of the Old King Charles iith they married in 1515 with the deaa rejoicing in the huge fish they had snagged for their daughter while the barely teenage Diane was naive and obedient to her parents wishes her wedding was a horror story after all her new husband was almost 40 years older than her and for the life expectancy of the day practically had one foot in the grave for a beautiful spritely girl like Diane it must have been like a prison sentence so maybe that’s why she began to act out in a big Way by this point Diane was famous around town for her Boundless Energy and her marriage to Louie increased that nervous activity tenfold in 1523 just as Diane might have been
about to settle down as a married woman her life got ripped apart her husband Louie ever the obedient royalist uncovered a plot against the current King Francis I and exposed the men involved only he wasn’t aware of one very crucial detail Diane’s father Jean was right in the middle of the plot the king immediately sentenced Diane’s father to execution for his role in the conspiracy and the whole deti family had to work overtime to save their patriarch always persuasive Diane and her relatives did eventually convince King Francis to stay the execution even so the damage was done Jean went to prison for years afterward and his health was never the same again Diane must have been none too happy with her knucklehead of a husband
but don’t worry she got very even although King francis’s son Henry was only 7 years old when Diane was a blossoming woman in her 20s she apparently made quite the impression on the boy when the prince went to Spain in 1526 as a diplomatic hostage it was Diane serving as a lady in waiting to his grandmother who gave the boy a ceremonial goodbye kiss it was a small gesture and it had enormous effects historians now believe that following this moment little Henry began to develop a massive crush on Diane detier as it happened Henry spent four long years in Spain as a hostage but he also spent every one of those years yearning for Diane idealizing her in his mind as the perfect gentle woman in 1531 Prince Henry had his long-
awaited homecoming and he and Diane immediately set tongues wagging at the coronation of his new stepmother queen elanar of Austria all of Henry’s family wore the new Queen’s colors as a gesture of respect well everyone except Henry that is instead the 12-year-old wore dian’s colors in a public Declaration of his weird obsession just months after the prepubescent Prince Henry came back to France and started trying to seduce the 30-some Diane her elderly husband finally kicked the bucket at long last Diane Broke Free from her patriarchal shackles she wasted no time Reinventing herself as a single woman while Diane was building a brand for herself she was also concocting a devious plot even a fool could see how
in love Prince Henry still was with her and Diane was no fool she craftily used his not so little crush for her own benefit keeping herself at arms length from his bed but nonetheless getting closer and closer and consolidating her power over him until there was a big bump in her plan every prince needs a wife and in 1533 Henry’s family married the 14-year-old off to Katherine dimichi an Italian Noble woman from the notorious and notoriously wealthy dimichi Clan at first Diane might have thought she was in big trouble what with Catherine actually being Henry’s age and fully endorsed by his Royal parents that’s when Diane really put her plot into action in many ways Katherine deichi played right into Diane dea’s hands for one Catherine wasn’t particularly good goodl looking while
Diane was a noted Beauty for another while Diane came from aristocratic Stock People sniffed at the new bride’s common Merchant origins in short Diane understood that Catherine was an asset she could control just months after Henry’s marriage to Katherine deichi Diane committed an act that has gone down in infamy at 35 years old many historians believe Diane slept with the now 15-year-old Henry herself finally giving the princeling what he had wanted for so long after years of minations and playing the long game Diane detier was officially a royal mistress Katherine deichi was wilded with jealousy but Diane knew what to do she positioned herself as if not Katherine’s friend than at least an experienced adviser to help her learn the ropes of the new
court Katherine’s Duty as Henry’s wife was to give him an heir but there was one huge problem as the months rolled into years then rolled into a decade Catherine and Henry were still childless this was actually very bad news for Diane too who feared having to Eng graci herself with a new Queen if there was a royal divorce Diane started recommending all sorts of fertility treatments for the increasingly despondent Catherine including drinking mule urine through throughout these years Henry was still so glued to Diane’s side she had to start insisting that he go to Catherine and his marriage bed more frequently in the hopes that he could finally get a legitimate air in 1543 Katherine was pregnant at long last and in January 1544 gave birth to a coveted boy Francis incredibly nine other children followed in short succession with Catherine pretty much constantly pregnant for over a decade
afterward but if Catherine thought this meant she’d gotten rid of Diane detier she was wrong with Katherine’s fertility issues resolved Henry proved his love to Diane with a grand gesture in 1544 the same year Henry’s first son was born an enemy of Diane’s at court accused her of being involved in a plot against the current King Francis the first as a result Francis banished Diane from Paris and Henry was abs absolutely Furious he and his followers left the Royal Court and went to Diane’s Chateau with Henry refusing to even speak to his father for a year after that in 1547 Diane got what she always wanted that year Henry’s father died making her boy toy the king of France the minute he took the Reigns Henry swooped Diane back up into the
Court’s Inner Circle and banished many of the enemy who had exiled her before Diane deti was on top of the world which meant there was nowhere to go but down Diane’s reign as the Shadow Queen of France started out gloriously she even got a legendary dig at the newly mented Queen Katherine deichi when the pope sent Catherine the customary Golden Rose Bouquet a ceremonial floral sculpture the head of the Catholic Church also made sure to include a pearl necklace just for Diane as Diane settled in as Chief mistress to the king of France she took to the role like a duck to water after all she’d always been whip smart and had proven it by amassing a tidy Fortune over the years it was only natural then that Henry relied on Diane for advice even getting her to write letters for him and signing them under a joint name while Henry was giving Diane political
power hand over fist he staunchly kept Katherine deichi away from his [Music] Affairs then mad with lust and love Henry gave his mistress not his wife the literal crown jewels of France infuriating Catherine then he went and gifted his favorite girl with the gorgeous chatau Dishon so a palace both Diane and Catherine had their eyes on never one for modesty Diane immediately moved in and started throwing lavish parties rubbing it in Catherine’s face to Catherine this was the final straw the gloves were now off and it would be Diane’s [Music] Doom in public Katherine deichi restrained herself but her private life reveals A Dark Truth the queen of France was spitting with bitterness at Diane people always considered Diane a
beauty but as she Grew Older she somehow still kept the glow of Youth obviously Diane had good jeans to spare but that didn’t mean she wasn’t getting a little external help on the side indeed rumor has it that Diane would drink liquid gold in the hopes that it would provide her with eternal Beauty but just as Diane was about to turn 60 her whole world [Music] changed in 155 9 Diane was still living as a royal mistress and was attending a josting tournament to watch her lover King Henry try and best all the men of his court naturally the King was insultingly wearing Diane’s signature black and white colors as he jasted but on that day Karma was finally coming to get them as Diane looked on at her night in shining armor she was met with the shock
of her life when the king faced the rookie count of Montgomery the upstart almost hit the Monarch right out of his saddle annoyed the king demanded they ride again so he could prove his dominance he should have just walked [Music] away the next run Montgomery’s L splintered right into the king’s face and when the dust settled horror rained in the next moments Diane watched as h H’s face gushed with blood and wooden splinters embedded themselves in his eye the sight was so gruesome the hardened Diane as well as Katherine deichi and her son Prince Francis all fainted the minute they realized what they were seeing attendants immediately rushed to the Fallen King and brought him to a
doctor the news was gut-wrenching five splin ERS of the lands had buried themselves in his head and one in particular had pierced through his eye and into his brain the next few days were Agony for everyone involved as King Henry’s life hung in the balance Diane detier was nowhere to be found Katherine deichi had taken full control of the situation and Diane kept away from Henry’s sick bed for fear that Catherine would embarrassingly dismiss her anyway despite not being being able to see her lover Diane likely held out hope that since Henry survived the initial blow of the Lance he would pull through and for a while it looked like the king would indeed make a miraculous recovery some days he could talk he often listened to music and he even dictated letters from his bed Diane’s prayers were coming true until it took a
cruel twist in July month after the josting incident Henry’s health and mental state went into a decline and he gradually lost everything his sight his sanity and then his life on July 10th Diane’s constant companion had passed at the age of 40 and her rival Katherine dimichi was now the powerful Queen Mother to Henry’s young legitimate son Prince Francis Diane’s influence at court depended completely on Henry’s Devotion to her and after his passing she experienced a very rude awakening Queen Katherine deichi was in full-on Vengeance mode and she set her sight squarely on Diane she not only forced the former mistress to give back those coveted crown jewels but she also yanked back Diane’s beautiful chatau deson
so after watching Diane make a name for herself at court Catherine had learned a thing or two about image management herself in what was almost certainly a dig at Diane as well as plain good propaganda Catherine immediately took up an image of a broken Lance as her emblem after her husband’s death the Lance that Henry had decorated with Diane’s colors at the time of the accident the end of Diane dea’s life was even more tragic than her fall from grace after losing favor in court the cunning woman knew it was game over and she retreated into the background to her chatau Dan watching from afar as Katherine deichi medled in France’s Affairs it’s possible the great mistress could have made a comeback only she didn’t live long enough to stage
one soon after King Henry II’s untimely demise Diane suffered a horrific fate that mirrored her lost lover ever the athlete she stubbornly refused to stop riding horses with all the vim and vigor of a woman 40 years younger and just like Henry this stubborn arrogance cost Diane the ultimate price in 1565 when she was 64 Diane was outriding when she fell off her Mount incurring enormous injuries she never quite recovered the infamous mistress tried her best to keep going but died a year later all while Queen Katherine deichi was at the height of her powers in France but this wasn’t Diane’s last [Music] indignity Diane DEA was an unforgettable historical figure and that didn’t end up
serving her well hundreds of years after she died her enemies got in one final blow during the French Revolution citizens opened up Diane’s tomb desecrated her remains and then threw them in a mass grave along with other Aristocrats of France’s bygone age this dishonor also opened up a stunning Discovery with Diane free from her stately tomb beginning in the late 18th Century Modern historians were able to take full advantage of their more liberal access to her remains and in 2009 their findings shocked the world French experts reviewed her body and discovered traces of gold in her hair this discovery fundamentally Alters Diane’s [Music] story although previously historians believed her writing injuries led to her
demise the gold suggests something else not only are the stories of Diane drinking gold likely true but this dangerous Beauty regime Also may have led to her sharp [Music] decline Diane DEA was certainly worthy of the obsession that Henry heaped on her and she knew it of all the Royal Mistresses in history Diane may have been the vinist she even made her likeness into a sculpture of a Roman goddess and then put the statue in the middle of one of her castles another of Diane’s favorite pastimes was posing nude for portraits one of of the more famous possible depictions of her is franois CL a lady in her bath although experts aren’t sure whether the woman is Diane or Mary Queen of Scots many historians put their bets on Diane partly because nude portraiture
was just her thing Queen Katherine deichi and Diane deatti had one of the most better rivalries in Royal history but it was Catherine who struck the most hateful blow we now know that the entire time King Henry II of France knew he was dying he called out for Diane to comfort him on his deathbed Catherine’s response was devious The House Always Wins and the house of Michi certainly always wins coldhearted and bitter Catherine staunchly refused to let her heart sick husband even see Diane in his final moment and the lovers never got to say goodbye perhaps even more cruy Katherine also barred Diane from Henry’s funeral
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