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How's that for synchronicity!

No sooner have we recovered from six hours of the self-pitying, selfpampering Duchess of Sussex speaking her truth from a sun-drenched Californian mansion (Harry & Meghan, Netflix) than we are hurled headlong into Versailles, circa 1770.

(BBC1), created and written by Deborah Davis (who also wrote The Favourite), is the latest attempt to rebrand the most hated woman in France. In Davis's version of history, the Queen,

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