Letting power go to your head

WITH plenty of plotting and pomp - and excellent corsets and wigs - this period drama returns for another round of French scandal.

- BY SARA WALLIS

Emilia Schule plays the titular Marie Antoinette, a woman packed off from Austria to be married off to the future King of France.

In the first series, she emerged as a force to be reckoned with in the oppressive royal court of Versaille.

Rising from naive teenage bride to Queen, after her husband became Louis XVI, she has now been on the throne for 10 years.