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Count Hans Axel Fersen was born in 1755 in Stockholm and died there on June 20, 1810. He was a Swedish soldier and diplomat. His father was Count Fredrik Axel Fersen, who was the field marshal, councilor of the empire, founding member of the Academy, and leader and elder of statesman of the party of the old nobility.
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Count Axel von Fersen was believed to be Marie Antoinette 's lover. However, recent accounts of Marie Antoinette indicated that there was no evidence that Axel Fersen was any more than a close friend to Marie Antoinette.
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Maria Teresa was thirty-eight years old when she gave birth to Marie Antoinette. She has been married for nearly twenty years and had produced four Archdukes and ten Archduchesses. By the time Marie Antoinette was born, seven of the ten Archduchesses were living in 1755). Maria Theresa looked so well after giving birth to Marie Antoinette, in a way he had not before. Emperor Frances Stephen and many courtiers were present to congratulate Maria Theresa on the birth of her fifteenth child. The baby, Archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna (or Marie Antoinette), was small but healthy. Somehow, Maria Theresa knew beforehand that she was going to have a daughter. The room where Marie Antoinette was born at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna is now the Austrian President's salon.
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As Marie Antoinette matured Marie Antoinette became more responsible and less extravagant. She tried to change her image by wearing simple gowns, but her efforts had little effect on the unforgiving French public. The greatest damage to her reputation was created by a scandal that took place at the court of King Louis XVI of France just before the French Revolution - the Diamond Necklace Affair, in the mid 1780s. Although Marie Antoinette was innocent, the rumors ruined her reputation.
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The new Sofia Coppola movie, Kirsten Dunst was the teen queen Marie Antoinette. You can find the story of Kirsten Dunst Teen Queen Marie Antoinette in the September 2006 issue of Vogue magazine.
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Maria Theresa married all of her children off to strengthen her empire. The alliances that could be formed by marrying her children off meant more to Maria Theresa than love - it did not matter whether her children loved their wives or husbands or not.
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Although Maria Theresa and Francis Steven loved each other, they did have affairs. Francis Stephen tended to take ladies from the court to bed, and had a liking to Princess Charlotte, who later retired to a convent and became the Abbess of Remiremont. It is rumored that Maria Theresa liked her sister, Maria Anna's, widow, Charles of Lorraine, her husband's brother.
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A good looking Swedish nobleman who later became Marie Antoinette's lover. Hans Axel Fersen was known to be a womanizer more in history than depicted in the series, Lady Oscar. In Lady Oscar, he was portrayed as a tall and handsome man. This is not the same as his description in history. Nevertheless, he was supposed to be good looking. His tragic death told in the Lady Oscar series was supposed to also be true.
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The new full length movie directed by Sofia Coppola featured Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, the teen queen of France. Kirsten Dunst Marie Antoinette has been widely publicized a long time before the actual Marie Antoinette movie came out.
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