What happened to Marie Antoinette's children?

Answer 1

After Louis's death his brother (the future Louis XVIII), who had escaped from France years earlier, proclaimed Marie Antoinette's son Louis Charles to be the new king of France. For several months after their father's death Louis Charles and his sister, Marie Therese Charlotte, remained in prison with Marie Antoinette. The children were often sick, and the queen cared for them as best she could. Spitefully their jailors decided to separate young Charles Louis from his mother. He was placed in the cell beneath hers, where she could hear him crying. A few weeks later Marie Antoinette was separated from her daughter, as well. The former queen was awakened in the middle of the night and taken to the squalid Conciergerie prison. Louis Charles and Marie Therese Charlotte remained in the Temple. They never saw their mother again.


Her son Louis Charles (now King Louis XVII) was kept in a dark, filthy cell until he died of tuberculosis in 1795. In future years many men came forward claiming to be the long-lost prince. The most believable was Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, who died in Holland in 1845, but DNA tests later established that Naundorff was not related to Marie Antoinette. Moreover, DNA experts announced in April 2000 that tests conducted on the heart of the boy who died in prison proved once and for all that he was, in fact, Marie Antoinette's son.

Marie Antoinette's daughter, Madame Royale, survived the revolution. She became the duchesse d'Angouleme and lived to see the reigns of her uncles Louis XVIII and Charles X. She had no children.

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Answer 4

Marie Antoinette had four children, Marie Therese, Sophie Helene Beatrice, Louis Charles and Louis Joseph.
Sophie Helene Beatrice died suddenly at one year old, Louis Joseph died aged seven and Louis Charles died of tuberculosis during the revoution. Marie Therese Charlotte was traded back to Austria, her mother's native country, after the revolution in exchange for French prisoners of war. She married her cousin and died with no children in 1851.

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Answer 6

Two children died as infants. The surviving son, the Daupin, died in prison at aged 10 during the revolution. Her daughter, known as Madame Royale, died unmarried and childless in 1851.