The Execution of Marie Antoinette - Part I: The Making of a Queen | Ep. 19
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The Execution of Marie Antoinette - Part I: The Making of a Queen | Ep. 19
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Before she became a symbol of excess, hatred, and revolution, Marie Antoinette was a child shaped by diplomacy.
In this first episode, we trace her life back to Vienna, where an Austrian archduchess was raised not for personal fulfillment, but to serve the political needs of empire.
From her childhood under the watchful eye of Empress Maria Theresa to her marriage into the French Bourbon dynasty at just fourteen, this episode follows the making of a queen as she entered a kingdom already strained by war, staggering debt, and a weakening monarchy...long before the consequences of that world would be laid at her feet.
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
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