L'Échange des Princesses plot
"Marriages, betrayals and power games"
Philip of Orléans, regent of France, wants to perpetuate peace with Spain and proposes to the Spanish king, Philip V, a marriage between the heir apparent to the French throne, the eleven-year-old Louis XV and the very young Spanish infante, Anna Maria Victoria, who was four years old. years old. And it doesn't stop there: he also proposes that his twelve-year-old daughter, Miss de Montpensier, be married off to the Prince of Asturias, the Spanish heir, in order to strengthen his position and resolve the conflict between the two kingdoms. Madrid reacts enthusiastically and everything is quickly prepared.