Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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Thrilled to be here.
Thrilled to be here.
I mean, what a start.
Not French.
Austrian, the Austrian princess, and she was criticized for that at the time, so she's not French.
I I'd say her spending didn't break Versailles, and she never said let them eat cake.
So we're gonna there's some myths to overturn.
We're
Extraordinary woman and Marie Antoinette is her fifteenth child and she's last child, fifteen, and she's really up doing work on her papers while she's pretty much in labor with Marie Antoinette and game gives birth to this small but perfectly healthy Archduchess.
And when her husband died, she's a pretty benign figure, when her husband dies, when Marie Antoinette is a young girl, really
Maria Theresa then becomes the king.
She then becomes the king.
She rules with an iron fist.
She rules for her son.
I mean, she is one of the most powerful women really in history in Europe.
Would Marie Antoinette have had much access to her mum, do you think, in those early years?
Oh, Marie Antoinette's mother was
A control woman, a helicopter mother.
We've got a helicopter parent there.
There's none of this gentle parenting with with Maria Teresa.
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