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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue, Phil Harrison and Ellen E Jones

TV tonight: the Marie Antoinette ‘affair of the necklace’ scandal

Jasmine Blackborow as Lamballe and Emilia Schüle as Marie Antoinette (BBC Two).
Jasmine Blackborow as Lamballe and Emilia Schüle as Marie Antoinette (BBC Two). Photograph: BBC/Caroline Dubois/Capa Drama/Banijay Studios France


Marie Antoinette

9pm, BBC Two
The second season of this period drama continues to deliver palace gossip, backstabbing, political scheming, a rumbling revolt … and magnificent costumes. It’s spring 1784 and the “affair of the necklace” scandal is being hatched to try to bring down Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Meanwhile, people are using the queen’s melancholy against her and the court is putting on a comic play – with serious consequences. Hollie Richardson

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