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King Henri III |
Louise de LorraineWife of King Henri IIIShe is the only French queen chosen by her own future husband (not his mother, ministers of state etc) for reasons other than political. Henri truly loved his wife and she was devoted to him. The great tragedy was their lack of children: she apparently became sterile after medical treatment for a miscarriage. At the death of Catherine de Medici, she inherited Chenonceau, where her bedchamber remains Her classical portrait from the Louvre
A lovely wax renderingShe was not fat by any means - ambassadors called her thin - cf infra, rather her robes are voluminous.
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