Paris, Versailles, Court of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
Their firstborn child, who arrives a decade before the outbreak of the French Revolution, is a petite and sensitive girl. Her name: Marie Thérèse Charlotte.
The little princess grows up amidst the mythical riches of Europe's most luxurious palaces and the deceptive certainty that life can only be a fairy tale.
However, the Revolution shatters all assumptions, and the guillotine, placed in the heart of the blood-soaked city, spreads horror and sows panic. The royal family, after persecutions, humiliations, and adventures, is imprisoned, and the monarchs do not escape the blade.
The teenage Marie Thérèse Charlotte, the sole survivor of her family, is exchanged for hostages in Vienna, marries, returns, and fights Napoleon Bonaparte fortified in Bordeaux, is crowned queen for twenty minutes, and learns about her mother's secret love affair with Swedish military officer Axel von Fersen.
The book "Marie Thérèse Charlotte – Rosy Ashes" is based on a rich historical bibliography, documenting the events of the era, the wind of Enlightenment that swept through Europe, the uprising of the people, their victory, but also the tragic period of the Terror.