Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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The Marriage is going much better and when they're in their apartments, when the old king is dying and
Then this just sums up Versailles to me.
They're in their apartments praying, and then they hear this thunder, thunder of footsteps, and it's the entire court running from the king's deathbed to the new king and queen, and she's just eighteen.
And that's
The new centre of power.
Poor old Louis the Fifteenth just left there.
Everyone's forgotten about him and Jean Dubarry's been sent away, so not even she's there.
It is now the king and queen, and she says, We are too young, and yet she's now at the top of the tree, five hundred people, it's all about hierarchy.
So ridiculous that when you get dressed, your your outfit has to be handed to you by the most s senior lady.
So if someone else comes into the room, they have to start the whole thing again.
And there's this wonderful book in the Archiv National of
Marie Antoinette's wardrobe, all these individual pieces of material that she used as a reminds me a bit of the beginning of Clueless when Cher chooses her outfit on a computer.
You can get Marie Antoinette's all the outfits, but that's her job.
And she sees that as her job to dress, to ornament, to preside over court, to support her husband.
But what is wanted from the monarchy is changing.
I mean it's it's a another disaster for the French and they're already in debt and then they go and take part in this hugely costly war with Britain.
So the national debt is ballooning by this point.
It's simply going wild and of course
The Queen is going to be blamed.
The Queen does spend too much.
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