Milady de Winter

Countess Milady de Winter also called Sabine ia s secondary villian in the 1993 film The Three Musketeers. She is portrayed by Rebecca De Mornay.

History
She was once the married to Athos, before he became a musketeer. When he discovers her fluer-de-lis brand, which is meant for execution, he gives her to the authorities. Unknown to him, she escaped and married Count de Winter, later killing the man. She saved from execution by Cardinal Richelieu, and became one of his spied and assasins. She is ordered by Cardinal Richelieu to travel to England to engineer an alliance with the Duke of Buckingham. On her way she kidnaps D'Artagnan, but is confronted by the Three Musketeers. Her treachery revealed, she is jailed by the musketeers and her brother-in-law Lord de Winter. Athos tries to gain information from the woman but is refused. That morning, the party and a swordsman take her to her a cliff for her execution. In a dramatic change from the novel's source, it is Athos who saves Milady from beheading, begging forgiveness for betrayal. Moved by this, Sabine forgives Athos, tells all the Cardinal's plans and then commits suicide by walking off a cliff.