Queen of france

3. The pannier, or hoop petticoat was worn by women in the 1700s to give a wider sihlouette. Much like a normal hoop skirt, the pannier gives the wearer an exagerated shilouette.

Anna of Austria, queen of France, mother of king Louis XIV, 1625, Peter Paul Rubens

Mary was getting coronated for Queen of France and Scotland

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages, a member of the Ramnulfid dynasty of rulers in southwestern France. She became Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right while she was still a child, then later Queen consort of France (1137–1152) and of England (1154–1189)

Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband Louis XVI were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has been vilified as a woman who was out of touch with the common folk and was famously reported to have said that if the French people couldn’t eat bread, then “let them eat cake.” But was she really that bad, and did she really tell her subjects to eat cake?

The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, "Let them eat cake")

Bid now on Invaluable: Portrait of Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France (1703-1768) from Sotheby's on October 13, 2022, 11:00 AM CET.

Maybe lacquer, not diamonds, was an 18th-century queen’s best friend.

Marguerite d Valois, Queen Margo, Queen of France - Click to enlarge