Interview with Tia Caswell: Marie Antoinette and Queen Victoria

In this episode, the second of our Marie Antoinette related trio, host Dr Ellie Woodacre interviews Tia Caswell on her comparative study of Marie Antoinette and Queen Victoria. We discuss the rationale for bringing these two queens together and what we can learn about both women and queenship from this study.Guest Bio: Tia Caswell successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham in December 2025, titled: Marie-Antoinette l'Autrichienne and Victoria the German Queen: Negotiating Gender and Foreignness in Satire and Portraiture. Tia also holds an MRes in Modern Langauges, from the University of Nottingham, and a BA Joint Hons in French and German from Nottingham Trent University. Tia's MRes thesis explores: "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Constructing a Sustainable Monarchy and Negotiating Gender and Foreignness Under conditions of Precarity". Links:LinkedinReview of Tate Britain Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520 - 1920 - BSECSStyle and Society: Dressing the Georgians - BSECSCrown to Couture: The Fashion Show of The Centuries - BSECSLunchtime Lectures: Queen of Style or Scandal? Negotiating Queenship, Identity, and Politics in the Portraits of Marie-Antoinette - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A