What Happened To Marie Antoinette’s Children
May 27th, 2009 | 
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Question: What happened to Marie Antoinette's Children?
I've always wondered, because I can't imagine the revolutionnaries letting them live, but I know for a fact that there was a Louis XVIII who came after Napoleon.
Answer: Her son Louis Charles (now King Louis XVII) was kept in a dark, filthy cell until he died of tuberculosis in 1795. In future years many men came forward claiming to be the long-lost prince. The most believable was Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, who died in Holland in 1845, but DNA tests later established that Naundorff was not related to Marie Antoinette. Moreover, DNA experts announced in April 2000 that tests conducted on the heart of the boy who died in prison proved once and for all that he was, in fact, Marie Antoinette's son.
Marie Antoinette's daughter, Madame Royale, survived the revolution. She became the duchesse d'Angouleme and lived to see the reigns of her uncles Louis XVIII and Charles X. She had no children.
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