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1* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The thieving French maid subplot in the beginning of ''Catherine: The Great Journey''. She steals numerous household objects, including Catherine's diary (thus there's a gap of several months between her early entries); she gets whipped for it and banished, and then it's never mentioned again. The point was...?
2* CommonKnowledge: There had been rumors that had the series not been canceled the next book would have centered on Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette's mother, but there is no definitive proof the idea was even considered or that another book was planned before the series ended.
3* HarsherInHindsight:
4** Several entries from ''Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles'' have Antonia referencing her already somewhat frivolous spending, including one entry where she flat out states that she doesn't feel that one should worry about money so much. [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution Er, Antonia...]]
5** In ''Catherine: The Great Journey'', Catherine expresses gladness over the fact that although [[PrinceCharmless Peter]] isn't who she wants for a husband, they'll at least be friends when they marry. The real Catherine and Peter III's marriage was rocky and loveless from the start, to the point that she overthrew him in a military coup.
6* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment: During ''Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles'', Antonia doesn't have a favorable first impression of her husband the Dauphin. During the wedding ceremony, she takes a look at him and sees that he's just as scared as she is. She takes his hand and gives it a squeeze. He returns it.
7** Their subsequent interactions start showing Louis as the sweet, shy and loving boy who adores Antonia. As she recovers from a mysterious illness (rumored to be poisoning), she and Louis go on a walk in the snowy gardens. She's being carried in a sedan chair built for two, but because Louis is so fat, he walks next to her. While they walk, she learns from him that he's never thrown a snowball before. She orders the servants to put down the chair, gets out, makes a snowball and throws it at a statue, hitting it. Louis is so gobsmacked and amazed that he proclaims that he has the most amazing, wonderful and creative wife in the world. Antonia laughs hard...but promises him they're going to have a snowball fight once she's feeling better.
8* RetroactiveRecognition: The painter that comes to paint Marie Antoinette's portrait is a Monsieur Joseph Ducreux. These days, if anyone recognizes the name at all, it's as the face of the "Archaic Rap" meme.
9* TearJerker: Some books have their moments.
10** ''Jahanara: Princess of Princesses'' ends with Jahanara tragically losing her mother to DeathByChildbirth. All she can do is take solace in the fact that she was lucky enough to be her daughter at all.
11** ''Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile'' can get rather painful in showing Cleopatra's struggles to be strong while in exile with an incompetent {{Manchild}} father who can barely take care of himself, let alone a young girl. After the party where she stands up to Pompey for insulting her father in Latin, she breaks down in tears over the realization that she can't rely on him to protect her.
12** ''Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars'' has Sondok's breakdown over her mother's self-exile to become a Buddhist nun after being set aside for her failure to produce a male heir ''and'' her childhood friend Chajang's banishment and departure to be a monk, complete with her crying that the monastery has swallowed everyone that she loves.
13** In ''Catherine: The Great Journey'', Catherine is devastated by both the loss of her baby sister Ulrike, who died after the former's departure for Russia with her mother, and the later banishment of her mother from court after she's discovered to be a spy for Frederick II. Although their relationship is [[AbusiveParents less than ideal]], Catherine is still upset to see her be forced to leave.
14** In ''Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles,'' Antonia loses her niece, Titi, to a bad case of pneumonia and has to grieve privately because there wasn't a mourning period declared for Titi.
15* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: ''Elisabeth: The Princess Bride'' is one of the shortest stories in the series and is rather superficial, despite the fact that the real Elisabeth's story is one of the more interesting ones out there. In particular, her extreme body image obsession and related eating disorder are referenced a few times and then seemingly forgotten about, while her famously difficult relationship with her mother-in-law is barely even hinted at, despite the fact that the conflict -- something which largely defined the real Elisabeth's life -- would seem to be something that ought to be given some attention to, at least in the form of some heavy foreshadowing.
16-->'''[[https://yahistoricalvault.com/2016/07/19/elisabeth-the-princess-bride/ Reviewer]]:''' THIS COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD. And it wasn’t. It really, really wasn’t.

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