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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

Royal Sex: Marie Antoinette

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

History Hit

Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Behind the wild accusations of extra-marital affairs and a lavish lifestyle, who was the real Marie Antoinette? Why did her marriage to King Louis XVI go unconsummated for 7 years? And why did her life of luxury end in tragedy amidst the French Revolution?


Joining Kate today for the second episode in our Royal Sex mini-series, is Professor of French literature, Catriona Seth, to help us get to know this remarkable woman.


This episode was edited by Tomos Delargy. The producer was Sophie Gee. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.


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Betwixt the Sheets: History of Sex, Scandal & Society is a History Hit podcast.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, it's me your host, Kate Lister. I'm just jumping in before the episode to ask you for a little favour.

0:07.6

If you are enjoying betwixt, and I hope that you are, we'd love it if you could vote for us for the

0:12.5

Listeners Choice Awards at the British Podcast Awards. If you follow the link in the show notes,

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it should take you to the place you need to go and it would mean the world to us. We were shortlisted last year and the one before that, and the one before that.

0:27.8

We were so close. And it just made us want it even more. I think we can do it this year. Right,

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1:10.1

Hello, my lovely Bitwiksters, it's me, Kate Lister.

1:13.5

This is Bertwix the sheets.

1:15.9

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1:17.4

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1:18.7

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1:20.2

Because there's still time to back out now and go find something much more wholesome.

1:24.1

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1:30.2

covering around adult subjects and you should be an adult too. And if you've been here before,

1:33.1

you know the drill by now. Right, on with the show.

1:49.2

Tens of thousands of people are lining the Place de la Revolution.

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