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Once the most despised woman in Europe, Marie Antoinette was vilified as a libertine, a conspirator and a spendthrift – then publicly executed. Now an exhibition explores her story.

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The 2025 show is the first ever UK exhibition on the ill-fated French queen, and features a selection of beautiful pieces.

France stumbled into crisis in the late 1780s: bread shortages, crushing debt, an unfair tax system, and the spread of Enlightenment ideas all eroded the monarchy’s legitimacy. This video examines ...

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Our recollection of European history tells us that there were three acknowledged factors that gave fuel to the French Revolution.

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Marie Antoinette died over 230 years ago. But in the modern day, the teen queen’s presence remains widely felt.