Becoming Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey

'In her richly imagined novel, Juliet Grey meticulously recreates the sumptuous court of France's most tragic queen. Grey writes eloquently and with charming humor, bringing 'Toinette' vividly to life as she is schooled and groomed-molded, quite literally-for a future as Queen of France, an innocent pawn in a deadly political game.' -Sandra Gulland, bestselling author of Mistress of the Sun and the Josephine Bonaparte trilogy

'A thoroughly enjoyable novel, brimming with delightful details. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen.įilled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish clothes, and sparkling jewels, Becoming Marie Antoinette will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike. 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. 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.

When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny? Description 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