It's felt an age since the first series, which tells the extraordinary story of the young French queen, but the broadcaster has at last officially announced that the eight-part new series will ...

The fates of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution are widely known. What happened to their ...

“Jean-Baptiste Clergy: Eyewitness to Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette’s Nightmare” by H. Will Bashor. “While tending his family’s garden one September morning in 1779” Clery never imagined ...

King Louis XVI: I don't want to be king. People expect so much of a king. Nothing comes easily to me.

In it, Louis (Louis Cunningham) welcomes his cousin, Chartres (Oscar Lesage), back to Versailles, a controversial move in Marie Antoinette’s (Emilia Schüle) eyes. She sees Chartres as a traitor.

Chartres is a man scorned in Season 2 following his rejected romantic feelings for Marie Antoinette and his subsequent ... largest fortune in France,” as Louis warns in the scene above, he ...

Marie Antoinette lived during what’s known as the Rococo era. Lasting from 1700 to 1770, this period was born in Paris, where artists purposefully broke away from the design choices Louis XIV ...