Lucy Worsley uncovers the myths and secrets that led the doomed queen to the guillotine. Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat ...

A necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that prompted the downfall of the doomed French queen Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for $4.81m (£3.8m). The Georgian piece contains about ...

On Oct. 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was guillotined — but it turned she was actually innocent of the necklace fraud that she was accused of. While the queen was later found to be blameless in the ...

The Israeli museum that owns the famous creation by Breguet had been loath to lend it, but then the Science Museum in London ...

Lady in hoop skirt, rococo era, c. 1780. Hand colored wood engraving, published c. 1880. Portrait of Marie-Antoinette Queen of France, after Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Vintage illustration after portrait ...

Although the queen had walked on by when Jeanne tried to attract attention by staging a fainting fit, Jeanne convinced Rohan that Marie Antoinette had shown regal concern and that, having made her ...

What ensures this is the particular approach Hardman takes. He chooses to focus on the political role Marie Antoinette played, from becoming queen of France in 1774 to her execution in 1793. At first ...

This silk and leather shoe that belonged to the late French Queen Marie-Antoinette, goes up for auction on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (Image courtesy of Osenat auction house via Courthouse News) PARIS ...

Queen of Fashion recounts at length, for instance, how an adult Marie Antoinette deliberately goaded her enemies once the Revolution, which she abhorred, was underway—among other things by ...

Lucy Boynton will play ‘teenage queen’ Marie Antoinette in an important new biopic about Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Speaking of biopics, it’s just been announced that Boynton has been cast ...

An innocent teenage queen drawn into a dark, manipulative court of Versailles. Her duty is to bear an heir. Her fate will set a country on fire. From the writer of The Favourite.

The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie ...