She governed France in the name of a boy who needed to put both hands to his crown to keep it steady. Marie de' Medici was his mother and his regent. The difficulty would come when he wanted to govern for himself.
On 18 July 1552, a boy was born in Vienna who would spend his whole life refusing to marry anyone. A girl in Spain was promised to him before she could walk. She spent the next five decades building a life out of everything he never gave her.