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Article: THE ORIGINAL DIANA; A slender blonde, sexually unfulfilled by her royal husband, with her reputation unfairly besmirched by liars and gossips. Sounds familiar? But it's not who you think...
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 9, 2006
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Byline: GLENYS ROBERTS
HER best friend's severed head was cruelly displayed to her on the end of a pike. Her eight-year-old son falsely testified that she molested him sexually. Perhaps after two centuries, even the most hardhearted republican could not but blink back a tear at the dreadful fate of Marie Antoinette.
Pale, frail, her hair cropped under a peasant cap, stripped of her royal accoutrements and wearing a simple white linen slip, this hapless symbol of the ancien regime went to the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde on a peasant's cart.
It is now more than 200 years since the French Revolution - and over the intervening centuries, ...