Kate Williams
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first heard Sep 2026
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Well he's had well that that Madame Dubarry is everywhere at court, and initially Marie Antoinette says, Who's that rather l lovely lady?
And she's told Ah um
She's uh there to give pleasure to the king.
And Marie Antoinette says, Oh well that's good.
I'd like to give pleasure to the king too And then like, uh guess
And initially, when when Mad Marie Antoinette realizes who Madame Du Barry is, she's really rather shocked that a mistress is openly at court and won't acknowledge her.
And finally, she's persuaded to do so, which is seen as a great diplomatic breakthrough, just to say, hello, aren't there a lot of people here today?
Because Madame Dubarry is all powerful and the old king is is really in charge.
And if this is a moment when Marie Antoinette
hasn't consummated her marriage.
But she acknowledges Madame Dubarry, the mistress who controls everything.
She consummates the marriage, and then things seem to go reasonably well.
But the lack of a mistress is actually very annoying to a lot of people at court because they want a mistress and a wife.
So you can have a uh uh uh two pathways towards the king.
And and also what we'll see a bit later on is that.
People might want to criticize the monarchy, but they don't want to attack the king because that could be treason and maybe he's chosen by God.
So they'll attack the wife and they'll attack the mistress, but with no mistress,
It's all going to go on the wife.
Challenges facing France are, as you say, Dan, catastrophic.
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