Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets — Season 1, Episode 3: Marie Antoinette: The Doomed Queen
Documentary • 54 min • 2 seasons, 6 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat cake” to her starving subjects. Lucy Worsley uncovers the myths and secrets that led the doomed queen to the guillotine.
About Lucy Worsley's Royal Myths & Secrets
In this 3-part documentary series, Lucy Worsley travels across Britain and Europe visiting the locations where royal history was made. In palaces and castles and on battlefields she investigates how royal history is a mixture of facts, exaggeration, manipulation and mythology.