It was indeed rumoured that the French Queen Marie Antoinette was a lesbian. In those days, that word did not exist yet, and the proper way of saying that a lady was gay was "she is performing the German vice". Eversince Marie Antoinette was Austrian and is Austria they spoke (and still speak) German, a lot of jokes were made about this similarity.
Marie Antoinette was the first queen in history (all around the world), that actually had pants made for her to go horse riding. Pants were mens clothing and a woman, let alone a queen, was absolutely not supposed to wear such manly things. She also rode her horse the way men did, with one leg on each side of the horse, and eversince at that time it was accustomed that ladies rode the horse with two legs on one side, that also provoked Hugh rumours about her sexual preference.
And also because Marie Antoinette had great friendships with some of her court ladies (Princess de Lamballe, Yolanthe de Polignac), people started to print pornographic pamphlets that had drawings of her in an orgy with her court ladies.
Though, Marie Antoinette was straight and actually fell in love with Count Fersen. She stayed close to him her whole life. If the two ever really had the love affair consumed, was never proven.
That we will never know. Worldwide it is assumed that Marie Antoinette and the Swedish count Axel von Fersen fell in love and shared a great passion for one another, but nobody really knows if the actually consummated their affair, or that it was only platonic.
A lot of the letters they have written each other are indeed very intimate, but still they are no evidence of an extramarital affair. Fersen has kept a journal which got published, though highly censored. The original one is still in his family and they plan never to release it. This is also very suspicious and makes the rumours that they indeed did have a sexual affair stronger. The fact that his journal is kept secret is understandable if they did, because what would happen if it turned out that one of the four children Marie Antoinette had would have been his? Especially if it would be her last child, whose heart is placed in the Saint Denis Cathedral.. It would be the greatest uproar in history...
I certainly do not think so! These were just rumours that spread around Europe against her!
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Louis XVI's wife was Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Archduchess.
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
Marie Antoinette Queen of France was created in 1956.
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Marie Antoinette Josèphe Jeanne de Habsbourg-Lorraine.
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Austrian born Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI.
Louis XVI's wife was Marie Antoinette, an Austrian Archduchess.