The hashtag #CarrieAntoinette, which compares prime minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie Johnson to the French queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), has been criticized as sexist. Commentators feel it ...

History has given us no shortage of legendary queens, but few have been as mythicized ad nauseum, and with such unbridled enthusiasm, as Marie Antoinette. And even though it has been 230 years since ...

A new television series portrays the French queen as a feminist, drawing criticism from historians Based on a True Story Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “Marie Antoinette,” a ...

Kirsten Dunst played a young Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, occasionally anachronistic 2006 period drama Maria Antoinette. It covers some of the same territory as the new PBS series, ...

Most people associate Marie Antoinette with the affair of the diamond necklace, “Let them eat cake!” and the onset of the French Revolution. The French queen and her royal husband, Louis XVI, were ...

Hardman (The Life of Louis XVI) attempts to redeem Marie Antoinette’s much maligned reputation in this dense portrait of the queen’s adult life in France. Hardman begins by detailing her profligate ...

On September 17 2025, coinciding with London Fashion Week, a new exhibition was unveiled at the V&A South Kensington, London. Titled 'Marie Antoinette Style’, this is the UK's first exhibition on the ...

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

The French queen purchased the pair of diamond bracelets for 250,000 livres in 1776. Courtesy of Christie’s Images Ltd. 2021 French queen Marie Antoinette was renowned for her sense of style. During ...

A new book sheds light on the French Queen and her forbidden love for a Swedish artistocrat There were secret codes, invisible ink for passionate clandestine letters – and two love children who ...