And was Marie Antoinettes husband actually gay as portrayed in recent movie?

Question:

And was Marie Antoinettes husband actually gay as portrayed in recent movie?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: No, I don't believe so... I think that was a storyline to make the movie more interesting. he was married and had several children. There doesn't appear to be any documentation to suggest that he was in fact gay.

On 16 May 1770, at the age of fifteen, Louis-Auguste married the fourteen year old Archduchess Maria Antonia, the youngest daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and his wife, the formidable Empress Maria Theresa. Upon her arrival in France, Maria Antonia was renamed Marie Antoinette. The young couple was not able to have children for several years, apparently due to the fact that Louis-Auguste suffered from a sexual dysfunction.[1]. Some have speculated that this dysfuntion was due to phimosis, a physical condition which was later relieved by a circumcision operation seven years after the marriage [2].

Subsequently, they had four children:

Marie-Th㩲㨳e-Charlotte (19 December 1778 – 19 October 1851);
Louis-Joseph-Xavier-Fran㧯is (22 October 1781 – 4 June 1789);
Louis-Charles (the future titular King Louis XVII of France) (27 March 1785 – 8 June 1795);
Sophie-H㩬㨮e-B㩡trix (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787)