Category: Culture

Jane Boleyn—long branded Tudor England’s “most hated” woman—gets a fresh, evidence-based look. Was she a traitor, a spy, or a survivor of Henry VIII’s court?

The most controversial queen in history is a phrase often pinned to Marie Antoinette, a teenage archduchess turned French queen whose life became a lightning rod for envy, fury, and myth-making. In the decades bracketing the French Revolution, she was accused of heartless privilege (“let them eat cake”), ruinous luxury (“Madame Déficit”), sexual depravity (the…