In The Shadow of Empress: Defiant Lives Maria Theresa, Mother Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

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A vivid and sprawling family saga following Maria Theresa of Austria and her daughters, including the infamous Marie Antoinette. In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria Carolina, the resolute queen of Naples; and the youngest, Marie Antoinette, the glamorous, tragic queen of France, perhaps the most famous princess in history. Unfolding against an irresistible backdrop of courts from Vienna to Versailles, this epic history of Maria Theresa and her daughters is a tour de force of desire, adventure, ambition, treachery, sorrow and glory.

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Pagina's: 640, Paperback, Weidenfeld & Nicolson