Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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Uh there's this fantastic exhibition at the VNA of uh of what could have been many of Marie Antoinette's gowns.
And they are teeny tiny, and that's probably because they these are these are children.
Wearing them.
I mean it's so young.
So she sets off in this wonderful trousseau, and then when she gets to the border, what happens is every piece of Austrian dress and her jewellery is taken off her.
She's totally undressed by the ladies, by the French ladies, and then redressed
In French dress, so that nothing remains of the Austrian clothing, not even underwear, because that is.
A foreign court.
And even her pug mops is taken off her and Marie-Antoinette's face, but that's just symbolic.
The pug is actually sent later to Versailles.
So then Marie Antoinette then says, I don't want to hear anything but French.
That is who I am now.
And she sets off in her French finery, surrounded by women she doesn't know who are very informal.
She's new, ladies in waiting.
They're very formal with her.
There's no hugs, there's no, you know, hand.
handholding, they're very formal with her, and then she goes to meet her future husband, who is, well, he's one of life's pragmatic diarists.
He just writes in his diary, meeting with Madame the Dauphine, and that's it.
Yes.
She was Maria An she was Marie Antoine, and now she's Marie Antoinette.
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