Let them have their cake - and eat it too!
Marie Antoinette, Meghan Markle and woke feudalism
(Image: BBC / Capa Drama / Banijay Studios France / Les Gens / Canal+ / Caroline Dubois)
I watched the attempt by the BBC and Canal + to bring us the life of Marie Antoinette and wondered how a drama set in the run up to a revolution could be so trite.
The writers and director merely want to show us glamorous aristocrats in sumptuous locations. In this th…
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