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Question: Would Marie Antoinette really have loved her daughter like the film suggests?

I’m watching the Marie Antoinette film with Kirsten Dunst, and although I know that these Hollywood films tend to dramatise things, they did actually under-play her labour with Marie Therese a fair bit, considering the way Wikipedia portrayed it…so is her scene where she says that the baby is “no less dear to me” because she isn’t a boy, real?

Would she really have adored her baby girl so much in such sexist times?

Answer: She might well have; there's no reason why she wouldn't. She knew perfectly well that the child was less *important* than a son would have been, and that it was still vital for her to produce an heir to the throne. But that's quite different from feeling less love for her. (A mother in those circumstances might well love a daughter more precisely *because* she felt "poor little scrap, nobody wants you but me".)

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