A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace ...

A 300-carat necklace, whose diamonds have been linked to a scandal involving the last French queen Marie Antoinette, sold ...

According to The Smithsonian, "It is highly unlikely that Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, or anyone else in the French Royal family ever wore the French Blue. At the time, the diamond was set ...

A diamond necklace which was linked to a scandal which ruined Marie Antoinette's reputation is set to fetch £2.1million at an auction. The antique necklace, which was also worn at the coronations ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let ... the Bourbon dynasty was restored to the throne, with King Louis XVI’s younger brother becoming King Louis XVIII. It was the June Rebellion in 1832, also ...

The house tried to convince the new King Louis XVI to purchase the necklace as a gift for Marie Antoinette, who declined. So the jeweller enlisted the courtier Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy to ...

In 1770, at the tender age of 14, the young Maria was married to Louis XVI (pictured ... It's widely believed that Marie Antoinette's issues with her marriage may have contributed to her wild spending ...

Le Déluge, a new film directed by Gianluca Jodice, stars Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent as Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, during their imprisonment at the Conciergerie. Here, we discover ...

Henri-Marie Beyle—who had never ridden a horse ... sidewalk and stared at the “hideous apparition” of “fat King Louis XVIII.” Henri fled to Italy. There he wrote his famed study De ...

grandson of Louis XV. A French dentist straightened her teeth and a French hairdresser saw to her coiffure. Her education was badly in need of repair as well and the Empress asked the French King for ...

In the autumn of 1792, a few months after Louis XVI’s overthrow ... Had the flight to Varennes succeeded, the two dominating influences on the king would have been his wife, Marie Antoinette, and his ...