Marie Antoinette Style at London’s V&A feels like a private audience with the ill-fated royal.

Reviled toward the end of her life, Marie Antoinette has been revered in death. The enduring public obsession with France’s last Queen has only been fueled by the sensational nature of her death ...

The famous portrait is now thought to depict Marie Antoinette's older sister Maria Carolina A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss ...

A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss painter Jean Etienne Liotard's distinctive drawing of the last person to hold the title of the ...

The definitive portrait of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, isn’t actually her, new research has suggested. The 1762 painting was believed to depict Marie at the age of seven. Now, one ...

Few royal figures have fascinated the world quite like Marie Antoinette - the last Queen of France before the Revolution. Born on 2 November 1755 in Vienna, Austria, she was the fifteenth child of ...

The opening of Jess Hagemann’s sophomore novel Mother-Eating is not for the faint of heart. In the first scene, a man is captured, tortured, and sacrificed during a cult orgy. With that, the reader is ...

Let them eat cake”. It’s quoted in movies, textbooks, and dinner-table debates. But there’s a twist—Marie Antoinette probably ...

The 18th-century clothes displayed at the V&A’s new exhibition could almost be worn today By Zuzanna Lachendro The V&A’s new exhibition sets out to prove that Marie Antoinette was a serious patron of ...

A guillotine donated by French lawyer Robert Badinter, who fought for the abolition of the death penalty, is on display at Marseille’s Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean ...

A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found. Swiss painter Jean Etienne Liotard's distinctive drawing of the last queen of France from 1762 has ...

OPINION: I never understood why Marie Antoinette didn’t just gap it out of Paris, when the whiff of a revolution was in the air? Stick her head out the window, sniff the blood in the air, and think, ...