Review: The Secret Diary of A Princess
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2012
I would highly recommend this book to anyone, history buff or not.  The author is so well informed and has demonstrated that she is more than capable of taking dry history and turning it into a book that is hard to put down.  Marie Antoinette had such a sad life that ended so tragically.  Melanie Clegg describes the pampered lifestyle that Maria Antonia knew in the years she lived at her home in Austria.  Except for minor sibling jealousies, she enjoyed a happy early childhood.  This writer brings the reader slowly from an incredibly privileged childhood to the very young early teens when the daughters are one by one wrested from their home to travel many miles in order to marry young men of royal blood that they have never met.  The marriages were arranged with no regard for the feelings of either the bride or groom.  I enjoyed this book very much. After reading the carefully researched details of Marie Antoinette's life up until she arrived in France, I am hoping there will be a sequel.