We're picking up where we left off and Hortense is on the run from her controlling husband. And this is where her life of infamy really takes off. Love affairs, ROYAL love affairs, drunken sword fights and more. Hortense may be most famous for being one of the many wives of Charles II of England, but there is so, so much more to her awesome story.

A couple of really great articles on Miss Mancini and fam:

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