Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.įilled. Far from the let them eat cake woman of legend, Juliet Greys Marie Antoinette reveals herself to be a person we can admire for her courage, her loyalty, and. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon.īefore she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Becoming Marie Antoinette, the first in a planned trilogy about the life of the Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France, is a. Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny? PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.

Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey