A Interview with - Maria Antionette
This video is of an interview with Maria Antoinette from the French Revolution.
Video Script -
Script has kindly come back from the day
Show Host: Hello My name is Bruce Harvey and welcome to sixty minutes, today we are going to be having an exclusive interview with the beautiful Maria Antoinette. Maria Antoinette has kindly come back from the dead to talk to us today, so now I will pass you over to Linda
Linda; Thankyou Bruce, hello Australia I’m Linda Cranbury and today we will be talking to Maria Antoinette back from the seventeen hundreds.
Maria: Yes, hello it a pleasure to be here
Linda: Oh that’s lovely to hear, so today I will be asking you a few questions about yourself and the life that you lived. So the first question I have for you today is if you could please tell us about your child hood?
Maria: Well I was born in Vienna, Austria in 1755. I was the last of 15 children of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, who dies when I was only 10, and my mother who died only three years later at the age of 63. When I was young I and my siblings would all love to sing and dance for the court, and when it was winter we would all go sledging. And because I was the youngest of the children in a large family, with my parents so busy all the time my education was neglected and my governess would often spoil me and would help me a lot in my studies.
Linda: Okay, so the next question I have for you is about how you died and why?
Maria: At the age of 38 myself and my husband were beheaded for being accused of plotting with the Austrians against the French, and that’s why I where this ugly choker so my head doesn’t fall of. Do you want to see *start taking of choker off*
Linda: Oh no no no, that’s okay we don’t need to do that, you can *clear throat* keep it on
Maria: Oh are you sure
Linda: Yea, that’s fine. Um so would you be able to tell me a little about your marriage?
Maria: Oh yes of course, so when I was 11 my mother promised to the French royalty that there soon to be king and I would marry, as a way to cement a new alliance between the French and the Habsburg thrones. So 4 years later when I was only 15 and he where sixteen we met and on the 16th of May 1770 we married with a beautiful ceremony that took place in the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
Linda: Oh that sound beautiful, so now that you were married how was your life as a public figure?
Maria: Well it actually was not easy at all. And I had tons of rumours spread about me from widely circulated newspapers and inexpensive pamphlets which poked fun at me, and soon it was fashionable to blame me for all of Frances problems.
Linda: Oh that sounds horrible, so Maria is it true that you were into fashion and style?
Maria: Yes it is defiantly true. I loved fashion and getting to wear beautiful expensive things. I wanted to be the icon of fashion, and I was. But this led to more rumours being spread about me, that is was to blame for France being in financial crisis.
Linda: Oh well at least you looked good doing it *laugh*, so the next question is about where you currently living? Where are you buried?
Maria: Well Linda I was treated horribly after my death they just threw me in a coffin and dumped me in a common grave behind The Church of the Madeline. But luckily in 1819, Lui the 18th the younger brother of my husband, we were then exhumed from our graves and given a proper burial alongside other French royals inside the Basilica Cathedral of Saint-Denis.
Linda: Oh how lovey of him, so the next question is if it is actually true that you built a fairy tale village for you and your ladies in waiting?
Maria: Yes that is true, I commissioned the construction of the Petit Hameau, a utopian hamlet with lakes, gardens, cottages, watermills and a farmhouse on the palace grounds. I and my ladies-in-waiting then would dress up as peasants and pretended to be milkmaids and shepherdesses in my picturesque rural retreat.
Linda: And Maria do you think this was a good idea taking in mind that the peasants in the villages throughout France where starving to death?
Maria: Well, I always had a strong sense in fun. But the villagers didn’t believe in this village I had made so that was lead to the rumours that I spoke about before, and these rumours were extremely harsh things about my personal life.
Linda: Oh well that’s simply terrible. So Maria Could you please tell me more about your relationship with the King.
Maria: Ah yea well me and the King had very different personalities, he was withdrawn and emotionless where as I where Happy and careless in my actions and choice of friends.
Linda: Well it sounds like you had a lot of fun! So could you please tell us about what it was like being queen?
Maria: Yes I can, so before all the harsh rumours where spread abound about me, I was actually well liked. I would organise elegant dances and would give many gift and favours to my friends. But before long people were beginning to resent my so called extravagant ways. And I soon became unpopular in the court and the country, annoying many of the nobles, including the King's brothers.
Linda: Well thankyou Maria for doing this interview with us, we greatly appreciate you coming back from your grave. Now I will pass you back to Bruce.
Bruce: Thanks you Linda and thankyou Australia for tuning in to sixty minutes we will see you next time.
Video Script -
Script has kindly come back from the day
Show Host: Hello My name is Bruce Harvey and welcome to sixty minutes, today we are going to be having an exclusive interview with the beautiful Maria Antoinette. Maria Antoinette has kindly come back from the dead to talk to us today, so now I will pass you over to Linda
Linda; Thankyou Bruce, hello Australia I’m Linda Cranbury and today we will be talking to Maria Antoinette back from the seventeen hundreds.
Maria: Yes, hello it a pleasure to be here
Linda: Oh that’s lovely to hear, so today I will be asking you a few questions about yourself and the life that you lived. So the first question I have for you today is if you could please tell us about your child hood?
Maria: Well I was born in Vienna, Austria in 1755. I was the last of 15 children of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, who dies when I was only 10, and my mother who died only three years later at the age of 63. When I was young I and my siblings would all love to sing and dance for the court, and when it was winter we would all go sledging. And because I was the youngest of the children in a large family, with my parents so busy all the time my education was neglected and my governess would often spoil me and would help me a lot in my studies.
Linda: Okay, so the next question I have for you is about how you died and why?
Maria: At the age of 38 myself and my husband were beheaded for being accused of plotting with the Austrians against the French, and that’s why I where this ugly choker so my head doesn’t fall of. Do you want to see *start taking of choker off*
Linda: Oh no no no, that’s okay we don’t need to do that, you can *clear throat* keep it on
Maria: Oh are you sure
Linda: Yea, that’s fine. Um so would you be able to tell me a little about your marriage?
Maria: Oh yes of course, so when I was 11 my mother promised to the French royalty that there soon to be king and I would marry, as a way to cement a new alliance between the French and the Habsburg thrones. So 4 years later when I was only 15 and he where sixteen we met and on the 16th of May 1770 we married with a beautiful ceremony that took place in the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
Linda: Oh that sound beautiful, so now that you were married how was your life as a public figure?
Maria: Well it actually was not easy at all. And I had tons of rumours spread about me from widely circulated newspapers and inexpensive pamphlets which poked fun at me, and soon it was fashionable to blame me for all of Frances problems.
Linda: Oh that sounds horrible, so Maria is it true that you were into fashion and style?
Maria: Yes it is defiantly true. I loved fashion and getting to wear beautiful expensive things. I wanted to be the icon of fashion, and I was. But this led to more rumours being spread about me, that is was to blame for France being in financial crisis.
Linda: Oh well at least you looked good doing it *laugh*, so the next question is about where you currently living? Where are you buried?
Maria: Well Linda I was treated horribly after my death they just threw me in a coffin and dumped me in a common grave behind The Church of the Madeline. But luckily in 1819, Lui the 18th the younger brother of my husband, we were then exhumed from our graves and given a proper burial alongside other French royals inside the Basilica Cathedral of Saint-Denis.
Linda: Oh how lovey of him, so the next question is if it is actually true that you built a fairy tale village for you and your ladies in waiting?
Maria: Yes that is true, I commissioned the construction of the Petit Hameau, a utopian hamlet with lakes, gardens, cottages, watermills and a farmhouse on the palace grounds. I and my ladies-in-waiting then would dress up as peasants and pretended to be milkmaids and shepherdesses in my picturesque rural retreat.
Linda: And Maria do you think this was a good idea taking in mind that the peasants in the villages throughout France where starving to death?
Maria: Well, I always had a strong sense in fun. But the villagers didn’t believe in this village I had made so that was lead to the rumours that I spoke about before, and these rumours were extremely harsh things about my personal life.
Linda: Oh well that’s simply terrible. So Maria Could you please tell me more about your relationship with the King.
Maria: Ah yea well me and the King had very different personalities, he was withdrawn and emotionless where as I where Happy and careless in my actions and choice of friends.
Linda: Well it sounds like you had a lot of fun! So could you please tell us about what it was like being queen?
Maria: Yes I can, so before all the harsh rumours where spread abound about me, I was actually well liked. I would organise elegant dances and would give many gift and favours to my friends. But before long people were beginning to resent my so called extravagant ways. And I soon became unpopular in the court and the country, annoying many of the nobles, including the King's brothers.
Linda: Well thankyou Maria for doing this interview with us, we greatly appreciate you coming back from your grave. Now I will pass you back to Bruce.
Bruce: Thanks you Linda and thankyou Australia for tuning in to sixty minutes we will see you next time.