The Birch Show

History really is just a bunch of hot gossip

Which is probably why I got an A in history growing up

So we all know Marie Antoinette's tragic demise

A la French Revolution

Had everything to do with her, you know, kind of being a little gluttonous

But did you know that the final nail in her coffin

Was a diamond?

Hear ye, hear ye!

Come forth, all Instagram bettys and crypto bros

for the most senacious gossip in the whole village.

Abby's done the work to bring you the old gossip.

This is one of the most notorious, the pettiest, the messiest, the juicest scandals in royal history.

I'm talking about wigs, lies, and a diamond necklace so extra, it basically screamed,

let them eat cake before Marie Antoinette even got the chance.

So let's rewind to France, 1780-something.

The air is sick with powdered wigs, unpaid taxes,

and the faint sense of revolution.

Marie Antoinette is queen, she's young, she's beautiful,

and allegedly shopping like there's no tomorrow.

She liked to spend some money.

Spoiler, there's no tomorrow. She liked to spend some money. Spoiler alert, there was no tomorrow.

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