Hi and welcome to the forum!
You could try Antoinia Fraser's 'The Journey".
Don't expect reading about history to be necessarily simple....you have to ask yourself what you like most in life and read about that, and maybe its' more fashion and such things?

Nothing is simple about Marie Antoinette and the late 18th century in France. That's half the problem, she was judged far too simply, and for me was a complex person.