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Christina of Sweden
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original article in Spanish. It should not be regarded
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complete or accurate.)
Queen Christina of Sweden was born in
Stockholm in 1626. At the age of six she inherited the monarchy of her father,
King Gustav II Adolf, being declared Queen officially on having fulfilled the
adulthood in 1634. Her father wanted to prepare her for the throne and he gave
her a masculine education. Christina was practising proper activities of the men
of the epoch, such as the sport or the hunting, and she was proclaiming her
difficulty to understand herself with the women. After the death of her father
in combat, when Christina only was six years old, she inherited the throne under
the regency of Axel Osenstierna. Liked making a detour of famous intellectuals
of her epoch, between whom there was René Descartes, who lived through two years
in her court. She was governing resting on the personages' advices as Bourdelot,
count La Gardie, the count of Pimentel, Tott, etc. They were calling her
"Minerva of the north", for her passionate defense of the arts and the culture,
and also she was known by appellative others as Kristina Wasa, Maria Christina
Alexandra, countess Dohna or Protector of the Jews of Rome. In addition to
educated, Christina was very sensitive and unstable psychologically. She refused
to marry prince Charles Gustavus, national hero. Between the rumors that it
circulated was her supposed infatuation with the Spanish ambassador in Sweden,
the count of Pimentel, and also the intimate relation with her help of camera,
countess Ebbe "Belle" Sparre. It
started being rumored that she was lesbian
(although in that epoch the concept of "lesbianism"
still had not developed), and truly between the countess and the queen Christina
was produced a constant exchange of letters of love even after they were
separating and the countess was marrying. Between her most out-standing
achievements there are the signature of the Agreement of Brömsebro with Denmark
and her participation in the Agreements of Westfalia, turning to her country in
a big potency. As defects to her politics were an excessive waste of the public
arks, which provoked a financial crisis in Sweden that diminished her
popularity. In 1654 she resigned from her throne in favor of her cousin Charles
Gustavus, who would turn this way into King Charles X Gustavus. Between the
reasons that are used for her abdication the most important there were her
denial to marry, preventing this way the succession, and her desire to turn to
the catholic religion. After her abdication she traveled round the whole Europe
often disguised as man, and finally she settled in Brussels (Belgium). Years
later she was converted to Catholicism and happened for Italy and France. In the
French city of Fontainebleau, where she fixed her residence, there took place
one of the most traumatic facts of her life: on November 10, 1657 her lover, the
Marquess of Monaldeschi, was murdered (it is said that by order of the
queen). The crime provoked a scandal and Christina returned to Rome to keep on
cultivating her love for the art and her collecting of sculptures. There she
would die, in Rome, at the age of 63. In 1933 a movie was realized on her, which
protagonist was Greta Garbo.
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