When she became Queen of France at the age of 19, she already had quite the reputation of being careless and frivolous. Her popularity made a short comeback when she gave birth to an heir to the French throne, but vanished again quite fast. The French blamed her for everything that went wrong in the country and accused her (besides all of her charity work) of not caring for the French and spending all of their tax money (eventhough she spent far less money than all French queens had done before her). Also she was Austrian, and Austria was the country that France had been in war with for several years, the French did not want a foreigner on their throne, especially not an Austrian one. She became the scapegoat of France.