2:00

Yes. Living together. Yes.

2:03

Having arguments about how to put the

2:05

toilet paper in the roll correctly or who

2:07

turned magnets upside down. Yeah.

2:09

Real serious stuff. Yeah. Yeah.

2:12

We get into the nitty gritty. And here's something else I

2:14

think our listeners should know about us. We

2:16

live and breathe rom-coms. Literally,

2:19

I feel like that's one of the times where

2:21

I'm being completely serious. Yep. And

2:24

we also love the doe-eyed cousin of

2:26

the rom-com, the princess movie. But

2:29

these stories always end after the princess marries

2:31

the prince and allegedly lives happily ever after.

2:33

Like, we never see the part where they

2:35

get into a screaming match about whose turn

2:37

it is to clean the moat, you know?

2:39

Yeah. And honestly, I need to

2:41

see that. Me too. That's how you can really

2:43

tell where the love is, is when you see

2:46

two people fight. Yes. But

2:48

all jokes aside, royal life is hard.

2:51

I mean, sure, you get to wear a tiara, but

2:53

you can also get egg balls or

2:56

beheaded. Right. We're not

2:58

talking Disney movies. Like, the real

3:00

life uncensored version is usually more

3:02

like Game of Thrones meets

3:04

Vanderpump Rules. Ugh, what a

3:06

great mashup. And that brings us

3:08

to why we're here. Brooke and I have so much

3:10

fun pulling back the curtain on the world's biggest

3:13

celebrities and family dynasties over on Even the

3:15

Ridge that we want us to do the

3:17

same on a show all about royals. So

3:20

in this new series, we'll be sharing stories

3:22

about some royals you may have heard of

3:24

and some you likely have not. So

3:27

Brooke, speaking of someone everyone knows

3:30

of, but who most people don't

3:32

actually really know when I

3:34

say Marie Antoinette, where does your mind

3:37

go? Listen, I know what most people

3:39

would say, but here's the thing.

3:41

When we auditioned for Even the Ridge,

3:43

they asked us who our favorite royals

3:45

were and you said Marie Antoinette and

3:47

you were like, she didn't actually say

3:49

let them eat cake and I've never

3:51

forgotten it. Oh my God. This is

3:54

really hitting me in the field. And

3:56

you know, while she was a

3:59

wig wearing fat. an icon of her

4:01

time who ended up getting beheaded. The

4:03

truth of Marie's story and why she

4:05

was killed is way more complicated than

4:07

Kate. Like, what if I told

4:09

you all of this was

4:11

because of really bad PR? That

4:13

she was basically the victim of

4:16

a total bogus propaganda campaign with

4:18

pornographic cartoons? Okay, well,

4:21

I know nothing and I'm now on board. Yeah,

4:24

this story truly wild and that's just

4:26

the beginning. I mean, if you think

4:29

a bunch of nude pictures is bad,

4:31

grab those pearls to clutch for when

4:33

you hear what she's ultimately accused of.

4:35

Honestly, it's almost too shocking to believe.

4:37

Okay. So this is the story

4:40

that shows how rumors can get you killed. You're

4:43

ready, Brooke? Oh, I am so ready. It's

4:50

October 1793 in Paris. Queen Marie Antoinette of

4:54

France is riding in the back of an open

4:56

wagon. Her hands are bound

4:58

and her once fabulous hair has been

5:00

hacked off. She's weak

5:03

and she's half-starved, but she still manages

5:05

to sit up straight. She

5:07

chose her outfit perfectly today. Her teen

5:10

morning dress, a petticoat and

5:12

bonnet, all white. She's

5:15

determined to carry herself like a queen,

5:17

not like a criminal. Now,

5:20

pulling on context, I'm sure

5:22

you've guessed she's on her way to

5:24

be executed for high crime and I

5:28

did have a feeling maybe that was

5:30

hacking. Yes. So a huge crowd gathers

5:32

in the plaster of the Lucien to

5:34

hurl insults at Marie. Now,

5:36

most of these insults are about how she's

5:38

a traitor and a sexual deviant. Marie

5:41

wants to yell back at them, but

5:43

the people didn't listen to Marie during her

5:45

trial, so why would they know? And

5:48

part of her is like, fuck them. But

5:51

then she thinks of her kids and

5:53

a pit formed in her stomach when she

5:55

wonders if her children will remember her as

5:57

a villain too. Marie

6:01

finally arrives at the center of the

6:03

cell. Her eyes shoot up to a

6:05

platform where the executioner and the guillotine

6:07

await. It's only a

6:09

few steps to the top, but for

6:11

Marie, it might as well be a thousand. She

6:15

shrugs off the soldier who's leading her to

6:17

the stairway. She doesn't need or want

6:19

his help. She's doing this

6:21

alone. But with each step,

6:23

her pulse speeds up. She

6:26

reaches the top of the platform and

6:28

stares defiantly into the executioner's eyes. He

6:31

pushes her forward and forces her head

6:33

onto the chopping block. She

6:35

catches one last glimpse of the blade

6:38

dangling overhead. She

6:40

can't believe it's come to this. When

6:42

she first came from Austria and was introduced

6:44

as the future Queen of France, people

6:47

cheered her in the streets. Both

6:49

saw her as a force of change. What

6:51

did she do to make them turn against her

6:54

so dramatically? How could they swing

6:56

so violently from love to hate? She

6:59

still can't fully understand it. Heaven

7:02

callers close around her neck and

7:04

her thoughts swirl. Is

7:07

there something she could have done differently? Could

7:09

she have listened more? Thought harder?

7:13

Maybe people would have loved her if she'd acted

7:15

like someone else. Someone

7:17

less foreign, less independent,

7:20

less Marie Antoinette-like. Or

7:23

maybe not. Maybe because she

7:25

was a strong woman in a world

7:27

run by men, she was

7:30

always doomed to

7:32

a fate like this. You

7:38

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