Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette Marie Antoinette (; ; born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an Archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. She became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she assumed the title Queen of France and Navarre, which she held
Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg V, Count of Solms-Wildenfels (1886–1945), only son of Friedrich Magnus IV, Count of Solms-Wildenfels and his wife, Anna Jacqueline, Countess of Bentinck-Aldenburg-Middachten. They had five children: On April 21, 1896 her father was recognised as a dynast of the House of Schwarzburg having previously not had dynastic rights due to his parents morganatic marriage. Following her brother's death in 1971 the House of Schwarzburg became extinct in the male line. Princess Marie Antoinette of Schwarzburg Marie Antoinette, Princess of Schwarzburg (; 7 February 18984 November 1984) was the eldest child of Sizzo, Prince of Schwarzburg. Marie Antoinette was born at