The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...

Marie Antoinette was known - and eventually beheaded - for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI met their untimely ends after squandering their vast ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

while Marie Antoinette ceased almost all of her public appearances, so great was the hatred towards her due to her perceived flamboyance in the face of a national financial crisis. Following the ...