Christina, Queen of Sweden
Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626-1689) · Sweden · Historical Figures · Died at 62
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Something wrong?She walked away from a throne at twenty-seven - Sweden's queen who refused to marry, converted to Catholicism in a Protestant kingdom, and spent the rest of her life in Rome where a pope called her "a woman without shame" even as she became one of the few women ever buried in the Vatican.
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Queen Christina (Sébastien Bourdon) - Nationalmuseum - 18075FXD%2C_RP-P-OB-37.026.jpg?width=1200)
Intocht in Rome van koningin Christina van Zweden Ingresso Solenne in Roma della Maestra della Regina di Svezia ai 23 xbre 1655 (titel op object), RP-P-OB-37.026
Pierre Paul Sevin - Queen Christina of Sweden at a Banquet Given by Pope Clement IX on 9 December 1668 - NMH THC 3606 - Nationalmuseum
Funeral-procession Kristina
Kristian Zahrtmann - Queen Christina in Palazzo Corsini - KMS7961 - Statens Museum for Kunst
2 Ducats, Riga under Sweden, 1646 - Bode-Museum - DSC02668
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Georg Vilhelm Baurenfeind, Christina, 1760, KKSgb11432, Statens Museum for KunstFamily
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Christina became queen at five when her father Gustavus Adolphus died at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, though she didn't rule the Swedish Empire until eighteen. She wanted Stockholm to be the "Athens of the North" and pushed for peace to end the Thirty Years' War, but her lavish spending nearly bankrupted the state - she once issued copper in lumps as currency during the 1644 Torstenson War. Erudite and unconventional, she adopted masculine attire and refused marriage, choices that fed scandal when combined with her conversion to Catholicism. In 1654 she abdicated to her cousin Charles X Gustav and moved to Rome, where she threw herself into the Baroque arts scene, protecting composers and artists while serving as a living symbol of the Counter-Reformation. Five popes hosted her, and she's buried in the Vatican Grottoes - one of the few women granted that honor.
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