 SPOILER: There is a scene toward the end of the movie which shows  many princes and princesses of the blood saying farewell to the  Queen before fleeing the country, including her two favorite  companions, the Duchesse de Polignac and the Princesse de Lamballe.  While the real Duchesse de Polignac did take refuge in Switzerland,  the Princesse de Lamballe refused to abandon the Queen. She remained  with the royal family until her own arrest; after refusing to sign  an oath renouncing the monarchy, she was mutilated and beheaded, and  her head was mounted on a pike and paraded past the prison window of  the doomed Queen.