Marie Antoinette was accused of having affairs with numerous men and women. But there was only one who held her heart. There’s no denying her fondness for Axel von Fersen, but were the two actually lovers? Tune in to learn more about Marie Antoinette’s sultry Swedish sidepiece and his tragic end.

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Kirsten Dunst & Jamie Dornan in Marie Antoinette - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ZUz8GGem8

Axel von Fersen bio on the Versailles official site - http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/axel-von-fersen

Research on letters between Marie Antoinette and Axel von Fersen - https://www.worldcrunch.com/tech-science/decoding-marie-antoinettes-mystery-love-letters-to-a-swedish-baron

TAKE THIS WITH A MASSIVE GRAIN OF SALT: I Love You Madly: Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Secret Letters by Evelyn Farr - https://www.goodreads.com/fr/book/show/30072742-i-love-you-madly