Hi my new friend, What is your opinion about Mariana of Austria?
I read in the Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman book that Mariana and Marie Therese had a close stepmom-and-daughter relationship.
Marie Therese is a kind, shy, and sweet girl. Love her she is so nice. I hated how she was always portrayed as brunette and they would portray her as far from her historical character as possible. She deserves better.
My opinion of Mariana of Austria has changed drastically in the last few years. I can't remember where I got this from, but when I first started getting into history I read that Mariana was cruel to Maria Theresa, so I initially disliked her because of that. Later I read, as you say, that they were actually close and I also found out what an iconic girlboss Mariana was, so my current opinion is that she ruled (literally).
Would you recommend Queen, Mother & Stateswoman? It's been on my radar for a while 👀
She really was just the sweetest thing: kind, shy and girlish, not awesome or iconic or noticable, but so wonderfully, beautifully human. My girl <3. <3.
Yes, I really don't understand how the casting director of Versailles looked at a short, fat woman with blonde hair and blue eyes and turned around and cast a tall, thin woman with dark hair and eyes as her. It's probably partially due to the spaniard curse; blonde and ginger spaniards always end up dark haired in these adaptations for some reason.
As for her personality, you'd think a shy, pious little queen who likes chocolate and gambling and loves her husband but is out of her depth in a foreign court wouldn't be so hard to comprehend and yet here we are 🙃
She indeed deserved so much better in life, in death and on screen, but she will always be my Roman empire <3.
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