Page 35 - All About History - Issue 27-15

The Hated Queen: Marie Antoinette

Marie commissioned
paintings of herself and her Scandalous
family in simple but stately
dress, in the hope it would
improve her reputation headlines
The lies in the libelles were eaten up by
the royalty-hating revolutionaries

It has been discovered that the queen was visited by
her long-time lover Count Axel von Fersen nine months
before the birth of the young prince Louis Charles.
Knowing of the king’s past problems in the bedroom, it’s
highly likely that the child is a product of the licentious
Antoinette’s extra-marital affairs.

Not only has that Austrian woman been cheating with
other men, but now palace sources have revealed
that Antoinette also receives many female callers. The
infamous English lesbian Baroness Lady Sophie Farrell of
Bournemouth and Princesse de Lambelle are just two of
her female lovers.

“ Theexpensesofcourtwerehuge,and

outside t he people were starvin g”
Deplorable accusations have been put against the
ex-queen, Widow Capet, at her trial. As well as the
various orgies she organised in Versailles, the disgraced
woman’s sexual deviance apparently knows no bounds,
and she is said to have sexually abused her own son,
against the rabble of revolution. She was not Thequeenhadrefusedtotravelwithoutallher Louis Charles. She refused to respond to this charge.
humble, not apologetic, nor begging for mercy, comforts,andtheheavy,slowcarriagewithits
but had the iron will of a soldier facing a firing extra horses attracted attention. Their faces were
line. Faced with this defiant, unyielding, prideful among the most recognisable in the land, and the
woman, the crowd bellowed a cry she had not escapees were inevitably discovered. Disgraced
heard for many years: “Long live the queen!” and humiliated, they were forced to make the
However, the cries of support did not continue long journey back to Paris. Dusty, weary and aged
as the royal family was transported from Versailles beyond her 35 years, as Marie travelled through
to their essential captivity in the Tuileries Palace the crowds to her prison she was spat on, beaten
in Paris. Marie sunk down as she sat in the and pushed by the crowds. The monarchs had
carriage, hoping to avoid the glare and insults of chosen to abandon their people, so the people
the uncontrollable mob. She loathed the palace. made a decision in kind – the monarchy had to go.
Though it had housed royalty, she had been forced The queen knew it was useless to try to find
there against her will and in complete humiliation. sympathetic ears in France. With the revolution
She was furious that the entire world would now out of control and the hatred against her reaching
know that the divine right of kings had been fever pitch, she appealed to her powerful relations.
challenged and, like a petulant child, refused to do She pushed her brother, Holy Roman Emperor
anything that might improve her popularity. Leopold II, and his son Francis II to threaten
For Marie, the truth was clear – the mob had France on her behalf. But this led to France
won, and she refused to remain a prisoner of declaring war on Austria on 20 April 1792. Not
a force of chaos. After two painful years of her only was the ‘Austrian woman’ hated, but now
powers being sapped, Marie had had enough and she was also an enemy. Foreign armies poured
focused on escaping Paris. In 1791, the royal family, into France, threatening the people that if any
disguised as common travellers, were smuggled harm was to come to the royal family, they would
away in a carriage. The coach travelled some pay with their lives. But this was a crowd as
200 miles, though it was anything but subtle. unrelenting as their queen.
35