Having read a biography of Marie Antoinette, I think this fictional account of this fascinating woman is a damn good read. Jean Plaidy has done a great job of bringing Marie Antoinette to life, along with Louis XVI.
The author focuses on many of the most important aspects of this frightening period of French history, mixing in some trivialities, which gives a more rounded story. In reality, Marie Antoinette's final few years were much more drawn-out and wretched than how they are portrayed here. That said, enough events feature here to still make the reader feel the utmost sympathy for Marie Antoinette and her family.
The author does a good job in showing the transition of the "Flaunting, Extravagant Queen" to a loyal wife and mother, who all her life is - in the eyes of lookers-on - damned in whatever she does, and damned in whatever she doesn't.
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