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Aftenen inden Marie Antoinette skal halshugges i guillotinen, efterlader hun i sin fængselscelle en hemmelig dagbog, der fortæller hendes livshistorie. Læseren tages med dybt ind i sindet på Frankrigs dødsdømte dronning med en hidtil uset medfølelse og skarpsindighed. Lige fra den privilegerede opvækst som østrigsk ærkehertuginde, gennem den glamourøse tilværelse i Versailles, til hendes hjerteskærende indespærring og ydmygelse under den franske revolution.

Born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, Josephine had an exotic Creole appeal that would ultimately propel her to reign over an empire as wife of the most powerful man in the world. But her life is a story of ambition and danger, of luck and a ferocious will to survive. Married young to an arrogant French aristocrat who died during the Terror, Josephine also narrowly missed losing her head to the guillotine. Soon she had married the much younger General Bonaparte, whose armies garnered France an empire.