Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst)

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Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna Habsburg (Kirsten Dunst) is the beautiful, charming, and naive princess of Austria, and the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa's (Marianne Faithfull) sixteen children. In 1768, she is selected by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI of France (Jason Schwartzman), therefore sealing an alliance between the two rival countries. Marie Antoinette travels to France, relinquishing all connections with her home country, including her pet Pug "Mops", and meets the King Louis XV of France (Rip Torn) and her future husband, Louis Auguste. The two arrive at the palace of Versailles, which was built by the King's grandfather, and are married and are encouraged to produce an heir to the throne as soon as possible, but the next day it is reported that "nothing happened" on their wedding night.