Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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Kate Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, she tries to sort of sit in the corner and stand so no one can see.
And on the morning of her execution, Rosalie begs her to have some broth.
She really wants her to have some broth.
And I think Marie Antoinette just does it because she wants to please Rosalie.
And Marie Antoinette's been everything's been taken from her.
And what I find so striking is that the king went to his execution in a carriage, Marie Antoinette.
goes in an open cart.
She is the real enemy of France, even though she could never, ever be on the throne.
And the history of queenship we see an awful lot of women who were consorts, then popping up and taking the throne for themselves, including Catherine the Great.
Absolutely, she was an iconic figure of Oh well, um
Oh but my husband Oh it's me heavens
Marie Antoinette couldn't do that.
But yet she is the ultimate enemy.
She's public enemy, number one.
Her hands are bound together, and she's jeered, she's laughed at, and she gets up onto the scaffold and she steps on the executioner's foot by mistake, and she says, Excuse me, monsieur, I did not mean to do it.
And those are her last words.
The Queen.
is beheaded, she's executed, her head falls to the ground, and then she's thrown.
into a communal grave, so we don't know where she is, but when Madame Tissord sets up her wildly successful
wax model museum.
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