Kate Williams

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748 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The 'Scandalous' Life of Marie Antoinette · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

And that's weird.

And then

The jeweller writes to Marie Antoinette, her her lady in waiting, her chief lady in waiting, Madame Campin, and says uh I can have the money now.

And my intro net and my madam can pump up.

He's just he's just trying to get us to buy something.

We're just going to ignore this sales sales pitch.

And that Dila says, No, no, you actually owe me the money for the necklace.

You bought it, you need to pay for it.

And the whole thing gets exposed.

Now, what has happened is Cardinal de Rohan had this very glamorous mistress, Jean, who was an illegitimate uh illegitimate descendant of the French royalty, Countess de la Motte.

And she could see how naive he was, and therefore got

A Parisian sex worker called Nicole Doliver to dress up as Marie Antoinette and pretend to be her in the gardens of Versailles.

And therefore the necklace was then delivered to Jean de Lamotte, who nicked it, took the whole lot, and sold it off.

And now everyone's in the midst of a drama.

And Cardinal Rohan is called in front of the King and Queen to account for this.

And he says, but look, Marie-Antoinette.

You wrote me letters and he gets these letters out.

And they say to him

Because that's not, because she signs them, Marie Antoinette de France.

And that's not how queens sign the letters.

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