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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
The life of Marie Antoinette, from a little girl to a Queen.
The reader is introduced to a cheerful archduchess, spoiled and flippant. She spends her days without a care in the world, until her mother announces that she is to become the Dauphine of France. Placed in a new world, who see Austrians as the enemy, Antoinette was cursed from the start. Misguided and misunderstood, her reign was not a happy one and, as everyone knows, ended tragically.
I have always been a royalist, which is odd for an American to state, but it’s true. Even with all of Marie Antoinette’s faults, I still believe she could’ve made a great Queen. If only she would’ve been loved as she deserved. A good book, that did her justice, and a nice addition to my collection of Marie Antoinette books.
The reader is introduced to a cheerful archduchess, spoiled and flippant. She spends her days without a care in the world, until her mother announces that she is to become the Dauphine of France. Placed in a new world, who see Austrians as the enemy, Antoinette was cursed from the start. Misguided and misunderstood, her reign was not a happy one and, as everyone knows, ended tragically.
I have always been a royalist, which is odd for an American to state, but it’s true. Even with all of Marie Antoinette’s faults, I still believe she could’ve made a great Queen. If only she would’ve been loved as she deserved. A good book, that did her justice, and a nice addition to my collection of Marie Antoinette books.
I've previously read a Jean Plaidy novel and enjoyed it very much, so was really looking forward to this. The Queen's Confession is a fictional autobiography of Marie Antoinette. Holt portrays her in a very childish and naive manner. I sometimes sympathised with Marie but truth be told, I mainly wanted to shake her by the shoulders and tell her to grow up. It was well researched, with a bibliography at the back to see where Holt got all her information about Marie.
This was probably my least favorite of Victora Holt's books that I read in jr. high. But I still liked it.