{"id":24730,"date":"2023-05-19T07:19:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=231720"},"modified":"2023-05-19T08:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T06:11:37","slug":"three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Three young queens: the unexpected bonds between Renaissance royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Leah Redmond Chang explores the intertwined lives and legacies of three Renaissance queens \u2013 Catherine de\u2019 Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Good\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 19 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Before being scattered across different kingdoms, Catherine de\u2019 Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots spent many years of their formative years at the French court. Speaking to Lauren Good, Leah Redmond Chang explores the bonds between these extraordinary women and considers how French king Henry II\u2019s death changed the course of their futures in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-231720-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/threeyoungqueens-b7f189a.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/threeyoungqueens-b7f189a.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/threeyoungqueens-b7f189a.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leah Redmond Chang is the author of <em>Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/young-queens-three-renaissance-women-and-the-price-of-power-leah-redmond-chang\/7251102?ean=9781526613424&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Young-Queens-Three-Renaissance-Women-ebook\/dp\/B0B4DP7TMZ\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/young-queens\/leah-redmond-chang\/9781526613424&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Leah Redmond Chang explores the intertwined lives and legacies of three Renaissance queens \u2013 Catherine de\u2019 Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24731,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/three-young-queens-the-unexpected-bonds-between-renaissance-royals.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Leah Redmond Chang explores the intertwined lives and legacies of three Renaissance queens \u2013 Catherine de\u2019 Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}