The Empress

I learned something on PBS last night which amazed me. The show was a biopic about Marie Antoinette, and it said that her mother, Maria Teresa, was the long-time empress of Austria. Which isn't a big deal, except for the fact that Maria Teresa had sixteen children while she was empress. Apparently she would even read reports and policy papers while she was in labor.

Marie Antoinette was the second-youngest. She got married off to Louis XVI to create an alliance between Austria and France. And apparently she never actually said the "cake" thing.