Outraged by Crown Prince Philip’s sexual dalliances with the Lady Francesca, his future wife, Elizabeth of Valois, secretly arranged for Francesca’s abduction the night before Elizabeth and Philip’s wedding day. The following night, as Elizabeth and Philip were consummating their marriage vows in the palace’s royal bed chamber, down in the torture chamber Francesca was experiencing as far more torturously agonizing consummation, one that would ultimately prove fatal...