Royal Scandal! Marie Antoinette's Secret Love Children Revealed in Newly Discovered Letters

Marie A's husband was extremely cruel to her. She was a child bride, forced into a verbal and emotionally abusive relationship - but she loved him dearly. He wouldn't even sleep in the same room with her for years and years, nor consummate their relationship. She became depressed, kicked to the curb, and desperately lonely. He was dismissive of her and she was a joke to others. The girl unloved and undesirable by the King. The man she ended up having an affair with, was the only person who loved her. Her own parents were abusive. She was a wounded and damaged child when she was pushed upon the King. And she never said "Let Them Eat Cake." That was a princess in Spain. In fact, Marie A voluntarily stayed with the King when she had a way to escape. He had softened to her at this point, though he never was loving towards her. But she loved him and longed for him to love her, her whole life. It's all in her letters, and references in letters written by members of the court. She even wrote letters to her children telling them to forgive their father (the King). She ran interference both trying to raise her children with the love she never had, and also trying to build him up in her children's lives. She actually was incredibly admirable, the way she rose above such horrific circumstances, and even tried to give her own food to those starving. Since she was a joke, she was kept away from the politics of what was happening. When she did find out (after being so isolated in a home she couldn't even leave), she tried to give as much food as she could sneak out. But history is written by the winners...hence the "Let them eat cake," quote that wasn't even said when she was alive, much less by her. She was so tragic. Treated as worthless by her parents, her husband, the people around her, and then gone done in history as a monster.