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Marie Antoinette to air this month on BBC Two

Thursday, 8 December 2022, 17:43 Moniek Bloks 0

The new TV series Marie Antoinette by Canal + is set to air on BBC Two this month. The release date of the first episode is set for 29 December, with more episodes to follow weekly. The series is in English, and Marie Antoinette is played by German actress Emilia Schüle. See the trailer below: [read more]

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Marie Antoinette (2022) Trailer

Friday, 14 October 2022, 16:04 Moniek Bloks 0

The new Marie Antoinette series is shortly going to premiere on Canal Plus. Although no other release dates or streaming services have been announced, it has been commissioned by the BBC. Take a look at the trailer below:

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Marie Antoinette and The “Let them eat cake” myth

Monday, 27 July 2020, 5:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Marie Antoinette has gone down in history as one of the most despised Queens, not in the least because of her perceived indifference to the plight of the poor and for saying something she never did… “Let them eat cake.” Born an Austrian Archduchess on 2 November 1755 as the daughter of Empress Maria Theresa [read more]

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Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily – A Crown of Thorns (Part one)

Thursday, 4 June 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was born on 26 April 1782 as the daughter of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Carolina of Austria. She was their tenth child out of a total of 18. Her mother was a sister of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Archduke [read more]

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Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen by John Hardman Book Review

Sunday, 12 January 2020, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 2

On the morning of 2 November 1755, Empress Maria Theresa gave birth to her 15th child, a daughter named Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna – and she would go down in history as the French Queen Marie Antoinette. In 1770, she married the future King Louis XVI, and they would go on to have four children [read more]

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The Princesse de Lamballe – The best friend of Marie Antoinette (Part two)

Sunday, 2 December 2018, 0:00 Amy Eloise Kelly 1

In the first part of this article, we discussed the early years of the Princesse de Lamballe, a young widow who became best friends with the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. Here we will continue on with what happened to the Princesse de Lamballe while France was in the midst of the revolution. We have not space [read more]

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