Starring Samantha Morton, Charles Dance and Antonia Clarke, The Serpent Queen follows Catherine de Medici, an orphaned young ...

Picture an “adaptation” of Les Misérables in which Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert team up as crimefighting buddies and the ...

On August 24, 1572, just before dawn, the bell of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois began to toll. What happened next would become one of the worst religious massacres of the 16th century. The St. Bartholomew ...

A fresh drama is set to hit Channel 4 tonight, titled The Serpent Queen. Samantha Morton takes on the role of Catherine de' Medici, a Florentine orphan who became the French queen and is remembered as ...

Family Member Charles IX of France (son), Henry III of France (son), Margaret of Valois (daughter), Francis II of France (son), Francis, Duke of Anjou (son), Elisabeth of Valois (daughter), Claude of ...

As French Ambassador to Lisbon in 1561, Diplomat Jean Nicot failed in his mission to marry off Queen Catherine de Medici’s daughter to the King of Portugal. But Nicot won royal favor all the same by ...

In a video message, Catherine said she would return to more of her duties, a positive development, but many questions remain about her condition and treatment. By Mark Landler Reporting from London ...

Despite the initial belief that it would be a limited series, The Serpent Queen confirmed season 2 at the end of its run. The show premiered in autumn 2022. The series continues the story of Catherine ...

“I think it’s a really fun era,” Minnie Driver told IndieWire of her career. “This is my chaos era. This is great!” Equal parts Alexis Carrington and Patsy Stone, Driver’s Elizabeth is flirty, flinty, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The second season of Starz‘s The Serpent Queen has been pretty wild so far. In just the first five episodes of the season alone, we’ve seen a version of the “Virgin Queen ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine dynast ...