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Best selling historian, Lady Antonia Fraser talks about her first full-scale biography for twenty years. Marie Antoinette was a controversial as well as celebrated figure and the author examines her influence over the king, the accusations and sexual slurs made against her as well as the death threats and rumours of lesbian affairs. Antonia Fraser's other biographies have included Six Wives of Henry VIII sold over 150,000 copies in hardback. She is married to playwright Harold Pinter.