Antonia Fraseri raamatul põhinev draama räägib Marie Antoinette elust ja sellest, kuidas ta kõigest 14. aastasena abiellus Prantsusmaa kuninga Louis XVI-ga. Triivides üksi, ilma kellegi suunava toeta prantsuse seltskonnas, mässab Marie iganenud kommete ja tavade vastu, muutudes seda tehes Prantsusmaa ajaloo kõige vääritimõistetumaks monarhiks.
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.
In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.
