In full view of those in attendance--including a 300-person entourage that had come with her from Austria, carried by 57 coaches and 10,000 horses--Maria Antonia was stripped of her Austrian-made ...

Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was one of the most important rulers of the 18th century. Her empire spread over a big chunk of Europe, and during her reign she was involved in two major wars to ...

Sometimes, the cruelty was so baroque it feels deliberate. When she married the French dauphin in 1770, the 14-year-old Maria Antonia of Austria was taken to a two-roomed tent on an island in the ...

Waltz into a grand Austrian celebration this fall on the Danube River on an eight-day cruise marking the 300th birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, whose one-time titles included Holy Roman ...