I think that one reason Diane worked to improve Henri and Catherine's marriage so they had heirs was that, if he had divorced the latter, a new wife might have been more attractive to him and rivalled Diane.

I want to thank you for doing the bio documentary on Diane de Poitiers...I really enjoyed that you told us about her personal life...She was an older woman who had a relationship with a king, who was 20 years her junior...He loved her and she loved him....That was a rare thing to see during the 15th and 16th century...The younger man and the older woman relationship, but this had to be very difficult for Catherine to deal with as well...

Women of such intensity and intellect, are almost always, more hated than admired! And there have been many.

I would say that she was a woman who used her intelligence to provide herself and her daughters a life that most women of that time were not allowed. She found a way to hold onto her late husband's wealth, keeping herself and her daughters from poverty and/or servitude to a male kin. She gained wealth, thus ensuring good matches for her daughters as far as social status and good relationships. And despite having to return the chateau, she was able to live out the rest of her life with sustained quality that she was used to, while independent. She was able to leave her daughters an inheritance that stayed with her descendants. This was not common for women. She was an intelligent woman and a wonderful mother. Most women back then had no choices other than wives and mistresses. This woman used the system to empower herself and her daughters. Tres Bien!!!

The rivalry between the Duchess d'Etampes, Diane and Catherine reminds me a bit of Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret Beaufort in late 15th-century England...

And to think that when Catherine fell ill and all of her ladies in waiting deserted her for fear that she had the plague, Diane was the only one who stayed by her side and nursed her to health. But she still wouldn’t let henri see Diane in his death bed.

She was fascinating. Beautiful and with brains. She really helped the king and couldn't have been better in his wise decisions during his reign. She even told him that he should see his wife more. Truly a beautiful and wise woman.

What happened to her body after her death was a nasty act! She was a witty lady, showing great attention to financial matters. The palaces she commissioned are gorgeous. Being a businesswoman was a great achievement. She really isn't highlighted much. The presentation is splendid. Even the little details kept it lively. Besides that, I really like the topic. As much as I as not in favour of anyone keeping mistresses, the lives of the French royal mistresses really were interesting!

It was interesting walking through Chateau de Chenonceau learning about the rivalry between Catherine and Diana, their feud affected the architecture and designs that the monograms between Henry and Catherine had a subtle "D" instead of forming a clear defining "C."

Superbe! We have come to expect content that is both meticulously researched and elegantly presented. You are much cherished!

Diane de Poiters is a lady I've always wished to know more about. I'm usually drowining myself in Tudor England instead of France of this era, with a passing nod to Mary Queen of Scots and briefly of France, then skip right over to Catherine d'Medici as Queen Mother 3 times over. I tried to watch Reign but it just annoyed me. So thanks for telling us more about this lunar goddess, adored mistress of a king. Oh, one more factoid: these two lovers often signed official letters with their names joined together. Instead of Henri R, the king would sign "Henri" and his lady would take the pen and finish the signature with her name, the result being "HenriDiane."

Beautiful video on one of my favourite female figures in history. Diane de Poitiers was a fascinating, remarkable and influential figure ahead of her times who knew very well her place and carried herself with such great intelligence and grace throughout her life. When beauty is empowered by intelligence and graceful attitude. Your videos are truly captivating portraying historical figures in a more human way. Excellent work. Thank you 💐

I loved the Starz TV show "The Serpent Queen" it explained about their life Catherine, King Henry, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers.

Princess Michael of Kent wrote a fascinating book about Diane de Poitiers, "The Serpent and the Moon". (She is also a descendant of Diane.) Your video is fascinating and well researched!

I love the dresses back then I think i lived a lifetime during an old era

That was wonderful. Thank you. That woman madam d’Entamps was a stunner wasn’t she ? A very interesting life. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I have read she had a son with Henry. I admire her, she loved the king and his children. Adviced him to spend time with Catherine. She was truly intelligent, sporty, graceful and very pretty for her age. She donated half her wealth in charity, which shows her heart was in the right place. All life she honoured and respected her lost husband.

Superb as always, a very remarkable woman with great beauty and intelligence, thank you.

I'm so glad your channel is growing! Continue uploading, I've been with you since the beginning and always will be. :)

Chateau de Chenonceau is sooo beautiful!

Thank you for the interesting and well presented story of Diane de Poitier. She sounds fascinating and almost relatable in her fondness for exercise, health, and hygiene along with reading.

Lana Turner starred in the film Diane with Roger Moore & Marisa Pavan!

Wonderful video!

Merci bp pour ce video d'histoir francais! Je l'aime. De lequelle nationale origine etes-vous?

This is very interesting, I really appreciate the insight into her life! It's kind of amazing that, even though Catherine de Medici is nowadays the one known as the intelligent, powerful and influential queen, it seems like at least while Henry II was still alive Diana was the "real" queen. Again, at least today Catherine seems much more famous, and I think you rarely hear anything about Diane. So, again, thanks a lot for telling her story! Also, it all most have been sort of... "complicated" between the three of them, for the lack of a better word. On one hand, Catherine and Diane were obviously rivals of sorts, there must have been some animosity between them as evidenced for example by the treatment Diane received from Catherine after Henry's death. But then again, you mentioned in the video that Diane also actually encouraged Henry to spend more time with Catherine and to stop ignoring her. Did she feel empathy for Catherine's situation (I imagine that it must have been pretty painful for Catherine at times. No matter if she actually had romantic feelings toward the king or not, getting ignored by your spouse and having to watch them literally riding off into the sunset with another is never easy.)? It's a small detail, but I'd like to mention that I enjoy the fact that we today still have knowledge about certain things like the colors of the dresses that she had worn at particular occasions, even beyond what is depicted on paintings of her and so on. These little but for me very important things really (in this case very literally) bring color to the lifes of the people of our past. I think what kind of clothing a person likes to wear if given the choice and especially what colors they prefer can, at least in some cases, tell a lot about the personality, the thoughts and emotions of that person, especially since clothing in the past was a much bigger "investment" than it is today (What I mean by that is that most people didn't have an actual choice about what to wear, since clothes, especially colorful ones, were really expensive back in the days compared to what they cost at least in many of the "western" countries of today. So, even as a wealthy and powerful lady who has the means to actually have that kind of choice, you did not just get any dress you liked, you really thought about what to wear. And since every dress was handmade and tailor-fit directly for you, which took quite some time, you had many opportunities and even more reasons to think about it. Long story short, buying a dress cost TONS of time and money compared to today, so you didn't take it all too lightly in most cases.). And knowing about their colors, their clothing and so on makes them feel more alive, closer to us now. Their lifes weren't just black and white, their environment wasn't just made of words and ink and dry paint. They had favorite colors, favorite clothes and so on, just like we do today. It is, in my opinion, important not to forget that they were not just "important figures in history" but also human beings. One last thing: I really like that you include the sources for all info and for all materials used in every video in the description, thank you a lot for that! It is much appreciated that you do this extra work in addition to all the love and time and passion you already pour into these awesome videos! Inluding references to all the sources is, in my opinion, not only good practice so that people know where the info comes from and so that proper credit is given to those who deserve it, but it is also great for guiding us viewers in the right directions to where we can find more info and more opportunities to learn! So, again, THANK YOU so so much! I love all your videos and I love this one! I really enjoy listening to you breathing life into all these different people and topics of history. All the best!

God bless her and rest her which is the most important thing to hope for her now.✝️

Great work! What a woman!

Wonderful documentary 👏 ❤

She was beautiful.

diane sent off henri to spain as a child and he remembered that. Thats the key point here, not her bathing habits ..

Wonderful and so interesting! 👍👏

Wow I was going to look for videos on Diane a couple days ago but i forgot!!!!

Things were different back in the day. When a king took an official mistress, there was nothing that the wife could do. But yet in the end Diane lost everything. You get what you put into.

LOOOOVE DIANE DE POITIERS

Excellent as always💐💐

I would say Diane was cold, shrewd and ambitious, but she also had a heart that perhaps only those closest to her saw.

Superb, thank you.

Thank you.

i am a woman of such intensity and intellect. i am unapologetically one of those women. i am one of those women. i am a woman of such intensity and intellect.

WOW! What context. My Virgo ness loved all the history and facts that you presented. Your presentation was brilliant to keep this gal interested.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌹

Great job 👌

This is fascinating

We’re watching The Serpent Queen, so I find this really interesting.

This was delightful and insightful. Easy subscribe.

Wonderful content!

Very interesting. Thanks

I love the way you explain her day to day rotine, you are so elegant thank you for this vídeo

Poor Catherine😢 Young, eager, & completely unloved & unvalued despite her brilliance. Smh. Good for her getting her licks in at the end.

She became his best friend.

Excellent! I have now subscribed.

She wears the same dress in the portraits! So interesting to see how different artists paint it. I wonder if the dress changed over time or if the difference is purely artist's style

Her routine reminds me of Sisi. Sadly, Sisi became obsessed with fitness and was essentially anorexic. Both were preoccupied by their appearance, though. It seems part of why Catherine didn't conceive was Henri had a penile deformity.

Lovely thank you

Interesting time and interesting people Thank you

thank you

Thank you for these videos! They are wonderful! And you have such a lovely voice! ❤️

Awesome listening pleasure😍

She was a woman of her era! She did what she had to in order to survive and give her children and herself a good life. Diane is one of the reasons I am really hoping a time machine is invented!!!! I just want to look back and see what she looked like throughout her life!!! I'd love to see what King Henry saw! Just to have a small window into her life!! 🤞🤞

I would say that Diane was very clever and intelligent and saw a way forward for herself in a time when women did not stand a very good chance without a husband. She obviously cared for Henry too. so fair play to Diane, brava.

THANK YOU 🎁💝BEAUTIFUL STORY 🌹IM GLAD SHE BEFRIENDED ENRI 😇💝 AS FOR CATHERINE : SHE WAS UNGRATEFUL AND JEALOUS ! DIANE COULD OF HAD ENRI KILL OR DIVORCE HER ? INSTEAD SHE ENCOURAGED HIM TO BE A HUSBAND 🙏💝😇 A VERY WISE LADY IN MY BOOK 🌹💐🎁I WOULD OF LOVED BWING HER FRIEND 🌹🎁💝😇💐🌸BLESSINGS🌸

Smart woman

To be completely honest I think she was both very loving and caring and supportive she knew when she was not wanted but she knew when she needed to be there or other she was in love with him or not I know she genuinely seemed to care about him whether she knew she had run her luck with the queen or not within or without about no doubt he did with what she thought was right and walked about sharing her heart sharing her wealth sharing her knowledge was sharing her love that is the love that she has shared with him without a doubt how she walked about whether he doubt about it or not she truly did care the king of France

Watch the Serpent Queen

I find it difficult to negatively judge a woman like this who did what she needed to survive in those times. As much as being a mistress really bothers me about her, I can appreciate and respect the time period she lived in and what people had to do to survive.

Sounds like she knew how to spend money. She might not have been Queen, but some say she should have been. She sounds like a strong woman. He should not have joisted. He was younger and would not listen.

Another Camilla Parker Bowles need I say more.

More images would make it even better.

Is it true she was only 4ft high?

Inspired character Danielle in #EverAfter movie retelling of Cinderella.

Diane was very fastidious & intelligent. No wonder King Henri II was so smitten with her. Cleanliness is next to Godliness... And intelligent people are very attractive in my opinion...

Diane was the better man

Mark 8:34 “Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it. 36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?”

Who else has girl given namen Diana? Diane?

Oh no! A king influenceed by a woman( thats not a crazy religious fanatic) with MORALS and a good head on her shoulders! Wow he turned out ok too. Who woulda thunk it?🤔🤣

Looks like the wedding of Charles camilla Diana

C’est vraiment dommage que vos émissions ne soient pas publiées , ou sous titrées , en Français . Nous n’avons pas l’équivalent chez nous, et c’est vraiment dommage pour les passionnés d’histoire. 😊

The doctors were even allowed to take prisoners's eyes out so they could get more insight about the king's injury

Its importaint to note that the nobility and royals always married to preserve their status, rank, wealth and to forge powerfull alliances. For the kings to gain political power so they made alliances to forreign countries. Love never had anything to do with it. Love where considered bourgeois (common) The french king where expected to have mistresses, because it displayed their wealth and virility. The reason mistresses often had great power, where because there where no real distinction between informal and formal politic power. Acces to the king where vital for gaining influence and power and many noble families saw it as advantageous to have a daughter to be the kings mistress. It was accepted in the upper classes of french society. A future queen from a forreign nation knew that her role and duty to the alliance between the two countries where first to produce an heir, to maintain the alliance and to be her countrys representative and push forward her own countrys agenda. The queen and king often lived very separate lives, with their respective courts and courtiers. They came together to produce an heir, for officiel events and on few occations. Madame Pompadour( Louis xv) midt 18. century became the first one to hold the official title of royal mistress: maitresse en titre.

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power of old age or whaT ? 🤣🤣🤣

She hunted - proof of a cruel SADISTIC woman.

I have no love for Diane. Catherine had to sadly put up with her constant presence.

Sometimes men are dumb, imagine relying on your mistress for advice on everything.

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