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Queen Christina of Sweden
Title: Queen Christina of Sweden
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 810 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Queen Christina of Sweden
Christina of Sweden (17th century)
“Queen Christina was a complex personality” (Stolpe 150). She lived a very interesting life with many problems along the way. Although Christina would provide major contributions to Sweden as a ruler, advocate of religious freedom, and as a patroness of the arts and sciences, she would also have many problems concerning those aspects as well as marriage and her sexuality (Philemon). “Christina’s courage, her belief in rights and liberties, rare …showed first 75 words of 810 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 810 total…into the branch of Catholicism of the libertines, known as the “free thinkers” (Stolpe 183). She also had no heir to the throne after her, and she knew that without marriage, she would not produce one. She planned to leave Stockholm and go to Rome after her abdication. On June 6, 1654, Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated the throne and named Charles Gustav as her successor. She traveled secretly through Europe and would soon convert to Catholicism (Philemon).
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