Kate Williams

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

And everything about her is supposed to be French, except she says you say

The child of the historic enemy.

I mean, they they've been the enemy for so long.

So it's all very well the elite saying Austrians are friends now, but do the other people, the ordinary people, do they really feel that way?

Now here is the young princess who is pretty, graceful, elegant, she's charming, she charms Versailles, but she is Austrian.

She speaks

She's learning perfect French.

She's

Uh her mother constantly criticizes her for the standard of her handwriting and her reading.

We might possibly say now that po it may be that Marie Antoinette is would be defined as dyslexic now, but but mo mother's always telling her off for her handwriting.

But Marie Antoinette's speech and language is really very

uh really very, very good very early.

So she she she's she's immured in the court very quickly.

So you have the grand wedding, the king, who is grandfather of her husband, he thinks she's delightful and everything seems marvellous.

Louis XV.

But there is this one problem: the marriage does not seem to be consummated.

And this means she can be put aside at any time.

She's taught by the Austrians you don't understand the danger.

But she does.

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