Marie Antoinette Paper Dolls

The ill-fated French Queen became the fashion paragon of the 18th century, thanks to the able assistance of her dressmaker, Rose Bertin. This lavish paper doll collection features 2 figures portraying the Queen and her stylist, accompanied by 15 sumptuous costumes. Meticulous, accurate notes provide detailed descriptions for the dazzling array of apparel.

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France inspired renowned paper doll artist Helen Page to create a lavish homage to the 18th Century French fashion plate.  It is an genuine work of art that captures the fantastic, fairy tale fashions of the extravagant Court of Versailles before the revolution cost the Queen to lose her head, quite literally. The artist's exquisite technique lovingly illustrates a period of time when Paris fashion was a confectionary concoction of satin, velvet, lace, ruffles, flowers and ribbons fit for a Queen. This especially collectible book features one delightful doll and twelve breathtakingly regal gowns with accompanying chapeau and powdered wigs. Each beautifully designed page is pretty enough to be framable! While the paper doll is pure fantasy, the book also include a history by David Wolfe of the tragic Queen's legendary life.Â

Reigning Cats and Dogs by Charlotte Whateley is both historic and hilarious, too. Imagine centuries of famous rulers from Emperor Justinian to Henry VIII, from Richard the Lion Hearted to Queen Victoria, from Marie Antoinette to Elizabeth II. Picture their luxurious robes of state and glorious gowns, their extravagant jewels and crowns. But now picture those same rulers as if they had been dogs and cats, all dressed-up to reign in royal style through the ages. This clever, funny, fabulously executed book features four paper dolls, two adorable dogs (King Charles Spaniel and Queen Corgi) and two cunning cats (King Persian and Queen Siamese) with 17 meticulously detailed historic costumes worn by: Emperor Justinian, Empress Theodora, King Richard I, Queen Berengaria, King Henry VIII, Queen Jane Seymour, Queen Anne Boleyn, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette, King Henry IV, Queen Marie de Medici, Emperor Napoleon, Empress Josephine, Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

Sixteen full-color, accurately costumed paper dolls recapture the magnificent dress and regal bearing of Cleopatra, Nefertiti, Grace Kelly, and 13 other royal women. 16 additional costumes. Notes.

Reversible punch-out dolls depict four popular princesses — Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. Includes a royal wardrobe of costumes and accessories plus a play scene for enacting old and new adventures.

Paper dolls, with costumes representative of the clothes, pets, and toys for the Dingle Dell characters between 1913-1925 and clothes from other countries for Dolly Dingle.

12 beautiful costumes for ancient Egypt's fabled queen includenbsp;a Roman-inspired gown, a ceremonial robe for one of Cleopatra's state appearances as a goddess, and a formal robe of state worn when she committed suicide. Includes figures of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in Roman togas and military attire. Notes.

Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn’t always good to be the queen Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends--dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir. They always had to be on their toes and all too often even devious plotting, miraculous pregnancies, and selling out their sisters was not enough to keep them from forcible consignment to religious orders. From Cleopatra (suicide by asp), to Princess Caroline (suspiciously poisoned on her coronation day), there’s a gory downside to being blue-blooded when you lack a Y chromosome. Kris Waldherr’s elegant little book is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of queens across the ages, a quirky, funny, utterly macabre tribute to the dark side of female empowerment. Over the course of fifty irresistibly illustrated and too-brief lives, Doomed Queens charts centuries of regal backstabbing and intrigue. We meet well-known figures like Catherine of Aragon, whose happy marriage to Henry VIII ended prematurely when it became clear that she was a starter wife--the first of six. And we meet forgotten queens like Amalasuntha, the notoriously literate Ostrogoth princess who overreached politically and was strangled in her bath. While their ends were bleak, these queens did not die without purpose. Their unfortunate lives are colorful cautionary tales for today’s would-be power brokers--a legacy of worldly and womanly wisdom gathered one spectacular regal ruin at a time.