Kate Williams
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She was intent on Marie Antoinette.
And there's a rather tragic moment.
Well, uh the there's the series of moments when Smallpox sweeps the family.
So what happens when you're the fifteenth Archduchess?
You think you're probably a long way away from a major marriage chessboard.
i i it's a moment.
But in fact, you know, th two sisters get killed by smallpox.
Another one survives, but her looks are deemed so bad that she has to go and be a nun, and becomes a very powerful abess.
But Marie Antoinette then moves up the sort of table of of and becomes a powerful piece on the chessboard.
And that's why her mother becomes more
Intent on making her into this perfect princess.
She's got to she's got to be educated.
She has music.
There's a combination between having a rather fun childhood.
They've got a menagerie with a rhino, and there's Mozart comes and tells Marie Antoinette, perhaps apocryphal, this story.
He tells Marie Antoinette he wants to marry her, and they have a rather lovely life with ice skating, but also Maria Theresa sees her daughters in particular as a bit like.
Queen Victoria did.
These are her way of creating alliances across Europe
And you are going to tow the line, and Marie Antoinette is made very clear to her early on, you are born to obey.
They form an alliance and how do you seal this deal with a princess?
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