A new television series portrays the French queen as a feminist, drawing criticism from historians Based on a True Story Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History “Marie Antoinette,” a ...
History has given us no shortage of legendary queens, but few have been as mythicized ad nauseum, and with such unbridled enthusiasm, as Marie Antoinette. And even though it has been 230 years since ...
The hashtag #CarrieAntoinette, which compares prime minister Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie Johnson to the French queen Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), has been criticised as sexist. Commentators feel it ...
Kirsten Dunst played a young Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, occasionally anachronistic 2006 period drama Maria Antoinette. It covers some of the same territory as the new PBS series, ...
King Charles and Queen Camilla are hosting this state visit at a different venue than usual Queen Camilla is wearing a tiara at Windsor Castle for a glamorous evening. King Charles and Queen Camilla ...
On September 17 2025, coinciding with London Fashion Week, a new exhibition was unveiled at the V&A South Kensington, London. Titled 'Marie Antoinette Style’, this is the UK's first exhibition on the ...
Historical figure Catherine de Medici gets the period-drama-with-a-twist treatment in Starz’s “The Serpent Queen,” as the show finds a unique way to tell the story of the Italian-born French queen, ...