Christina, Queen of Sweden
Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)
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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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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 Gusta…
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