he V&A’s new exhibition sets out to prove that Marie Antoinette was a serious patron of the arts, not just a frivolous ...

The portrait shows a determined child with a steely gaze, holding a weaving shuttle in one hand and red thread in the other. This stern expression has long been interpreted as evidence of Marie ...

The Times ran an interesting story this week regarding research which shows that a Liotard pastel in Geneva, which was long ...

An acclaimed watercolour, painted in 1762 by Genevan painter Jean-Étienne Liotard, does not show Marie Antoinette at all, ...

A silk shoe that belonged to Marie Antoinette, the last queen of France who was executed during the French Revolution, will go up for auction on Sunday - with a starting price of 10,000 euros ($11,800 ...

The most famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, according to new research. Catriona Seth, ...

The new musical The Queen of Versailles is not about Marie Antoinette living it up in her opulent palace amid the French ...

Kerry James Marshall, Picasso, Cai and macabre relics of Marie Antoinette rank among the leading draws for “Frieze Week” and ...

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, afternoons meant racing home, dropping my backpack, and flipping on the TV for reruns.

Twenty-three years later she faced an enormous guillotine. As she climbed the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on her ...

Marie Antoinette is often remembered as a symbol of extravagance and excess, but her story is much more nuanced. As the last Queen of France before the revolution, her life was a mix of opulence, ...

The couple's teenage children, Count Henrik and Countess Athena, will continue at their U.S. schools for at least two more years Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...