A necklace thought to be linked to a scandal that prompted the downfall of the doomed French queen Marie Antoinette has been sold at auction for $4.81m (£3.8m). The Georgian piece contains about ...

Uncover the myths and secrets that led the doomed Marie Antoinette to the guillotine. Find out why Marie Antoinette is often blamed for causing the French Revolution by saying “let them eat cake ...

which helped fuel the revolution and the overthrow of the French monarch,” writes Reuters’ Cecile Mantovani. Marie Antoinette was executed eight years later, following the execution of her ...

when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let them eat cake”. Cake was more expensive than bread, so this response ...

The star of the auction was Marie Antoinette's Pearl, a natural pearl and diamond pendant A pearl and diamond pendant that belonged to ill-fated French Queen Marie Antoinette has been sold for $ ...

It is thought that some of the diamonds may have ties to the famous "Affair of the Necklace," a scandal that played a role in ...

A pocket watch designed for Marie Antoinette, with an incredible number ... in 1783 but was not completed until decades after the French queen's execution. "It took so long to create that it ...