Marie Antoinette many, leading to doubt as to the parentage of the child and to a noticeable decline of the queen's reputation in public opinion. The majority of Marie Antoinette's and Louis XVII's biographers believe that the young prince was the biological son of Louis XVI, including Stefan Zweig and Antonia Fraser, who believe that Fersen and Marie Antoinette were indeed romantically involved. Courtiers at Versailles noted in their diaries that the date of the child's conception in fact corresponded perfectly with a period when the king and the queen had spent much time together, but these details were ignored amid attacks
Cultural depictions of Marie Antoinette well as Elena Maria Vidal's 1998 book "Trianon". A 2000 book in the young adult "the Royal Diaries" series is about Marie Antoinette's journey to France as a teenager, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles (Austria-France, 1769-1771). The two best-known movie portrayals of Marie Antoinette have been in the 1938 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by W. S. Van Dyke, in which the Norma Shearer played the queen, and the 2006 film "Marie Antoinette", directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst. "The Affair of the Necklace" is a 2001 film in which Hilary Swank played Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy and Joely Richardson