The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette (Robert Amiss Mysteries)

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life--from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution. Carolly Erickson takes us deep into the psyche of France's doomed queen: her love affair with a handsome Swedish diplomat; her harrowing flight from France; her recapture and the grim months in captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her beloved son was torn from her arms.