Milady de Winter (BBC)

Milady de Winter (real name: Anne) is the main antagonist turned anti heroine of the television series, The Musketeers. She is the main antagonist of Series 1, a minor antagonist-turned-anti-heroine of Season 2 and a minor antagonist in Season 3. 
She was the first wife of Athos and killed his younger brother, Thomas, effectively bringing their relationship to the end. She became Richelieu's personal assassin. At the end of the series, Milady later becomes the Queen's personal assassin.
==Background==
At a young age, Milady was a thief and a convicted criminal. As the woman, Anne, she and Athos met each other and married. Milady never told her husband of her secret. After she murdered Athos' brother, Thomas, who attempted to rape her, Milady tried to tell Athos that Thomas forced himself upon her. In anger, Athos ordered for Milady to be hanged. According to Milady, Athos did not have the strength to watch, so he fled and thought for the past five years his wife was dead. 
Milady wished vengeance upon Athos and began a spy and agent for Cardinal Armand Richelieu. She hid the scar around her neck with a choker. 
===Personality===
A slight weakness in Milady is she wants revenge against her former husband, Athos, showing great resentment when he was freed from execution. However, Milady still had romantic feelings for her ex-husband, even attempting to win him back before eventually giving up when seeing him in love with Sylvie. Instead, she became a ruthless assassin again but this time, under Queen Anne. 
===Physical Appearance===
Milady de Winter is a beautiful woman with dark. curly, long brown hair and green eyes.
==The Musketeers==
===Series 1===
Milady served as the main antagonist of the first series.
During d'Artagnan's first night at the inn, Milady de Winter kills the man she has been traveling with and goes to have a one-night-stand with d'Artagnan. Together, they shared the bed for the night, where d'Artagnan spotted a scar on Milady's neck. She explained the the man she loved tried to kill her and d'Artagnan promised to kill him for her. Later, when D'Artagnan fell asleep, Milady left the bloody knife she used to kill Mendoza and plants it in his bed next to him.  Milady is revealed to be working for the Cardinal, having him the letters that the Red Guards stole from the Musketeers they slaughtered. She gives them to the Cardinal, who tasks her to find the owner of the pistol he found in his lover's room. 
Later, during D'Artagnan's first mission, he is suddenly in crossfire with a Red guard before he is ultimately rescued by Milady, who uses her pistol to kill d'Artagnan's pursuer. d'Artagnan is alarmed to see her, and remembered that she set him up since the first night he came to Paris. Milady attempts to seduce d'Artagnan into telling her where Vadim is but he rebuffed her. Annoyed, Milady faced Vadim's lover, Suzette and killed her while taking the Queen's missing diamond pendant. She later left a a pressed bluebell on d'Artagnan's pillow, much to his confusion.
==Trivia==
===Difference from the source material===
* In the original novel, Milady is described as having blonde hair and blue eyes. In the series, she has dark hair and grey eyes. 
*During the series, Milady abducts Constance and threatens to kill her when confronting the Musketeers. However, the young woman escapes from Milady by temporarily subduing her from a trick D'Artagnan taught her. In the novel, Milady is successful in poisoning Constance to gain vengeance on D'Artagnan. 
* In the novel, Milady is executed a second time, this time for sure by her husband Athos and his friends. However, in the series, one of Athos' old lovers, Catherine attempts to hang her a second time but Athos saves Milady.
*In the show, she is aware of D'Artagnan's true identity, unlike the novel, where she thought he was a duke she was in a relationship with and learns about his identity. However, he does not know that Milady is Athos' wife, as he laid in bed with her. 
*Like the book Milady, this version uses her beauty, wit and charm to manipulate men, as she did with D'Artagnan the same way in both book and series.
*In the series and books, she is branded by a fleur-di-lis, usually implanted on people who were criminals. 
*In the book, she poisoned her husband, Lord de Winter and pursued by his brother, who seeks vengeance on Milady for killing his brother. Meanwhile, she stabbed Thomas, Athos' brother, in self-defense. On the show, Athos also wants revenge on moldy for his younger brother'ss death as Lord de Winter did. 
==Gallery==
===Series 1===
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===Series 2===
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