Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the eldest child and daughter of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette. She was also known as the Duchess of Angoulême after her marriage to her cousin, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême. She also became the Dauphine of France when her father-in-law, Charles X, took over the French throne. She became the queen of France, too, but only for a while, as her husband, Louis Antoine, became King Louis XIX, for 20 minutes, before he abdicated during the 1830 July Revolution. The only child of her parents to survive till adulthood, she spent over three years in the Temple Tower prison and was also the only member of the royal family to survive the Reign of Terror and come out of prison alive, after losing her father, mother, and brother in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
