“To faint was a fault past hope of pardon,” wrote the Duke of Saint-Simon in his Memoirs of Louis XIV ... he might have added à la Marie Antoinette. The commentariat made great sport of ...

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Many years later, in 1829, de Bourrienne penned a memoir in the hope of cashing ... the crowd that witnessed the execution of ...

After she had served a year in jail, sympathisers facilitated her escape. Having decamped to England, she produced a justificatory memoir hinting that Marie Antoinette was sexually involved with Rohan ...

(Although she wrote private diaries and took from them to produce several volumes of memoirs, which were edited into two ... should wear a row of pearls that had been round the neck of Marie ...

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

Priscilla Presley is "devastated" by the gruesome facts laid bare in her late daughter Lisa Marie's memoir and sources said her doomed child's horror stories – including being sexually abused by ...

Priscilla Presley's anger and fury after Lisa Marie's posthumous memoir lays bare horrific family secrets she wishes were kept out of the glare of public's view. Priscilla Presley is "blindsided ...

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that hastened the downfall of the doomed 18th century queen of ...