An acclaimed watercolour, painted in 1762 by Genevan painter Jean-Étienne Liotard, does not show Marie Antoinette at all, ...
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 ...
he V&A’s new exhibition sets out to prove that Marie Antoinette was a serious patron of the arts, not just a frivolous ...
She wasn’t the first unconventional leading woman, but there was something about her that felt different, sharper, completely ...
The new musical The Queen of Versailles is not about Marie Antoinette living it up in her opulent palace amid the French ...
Dame Vivien Duffield has never been one to follow the crowd, not that she has ever had to. They have tended to follow her.
Between her new film, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” and her Apple TV+ series “Platonic,” the actress has created a diptych of ...
How do you choose your friends? Do you demand a meeting with their mother and father? Well, you should... if you're choosing ...
These 23 well-known figures have a wide range of favourite dishes and taste buds as diverse as their colourful personalities.
When you hear that a show is going to be about an assassin in 16th century France, do you expect action, cursing, sex, and ...
The property used to be the Fifth Avenue home of Gilded Age powerhouse Henry Clay Frick. Visitors can now explore previously ...
He was denounced by rebel propagandists as a tyrant and remembered by Americans as a reactionary dolt. Who was he really?