Happy birthday to Queen Christina of Sweden! Born on this day in 1632, Christina was an iconoclast a
Happy birthday to Queen Christina of Sweden! Born on this day in 1632, Christina was an iconoclast all her life. Highly educated, she had little interest in people’s expectations of her as a woman and eventual wife. Her refusal to marry and her conversion to Catholicism led to her eventual abdication of the throne. Known as the “Minerva of the North,” Christina spent the rest of her life enmeshed with artists and scholars. She died in Rome and was buried in the Vatican grotto underneath St. Peter’s Basilica; she remains one of only three women ever buried there.(image from Paul Lewis’ Queen of Caprice (DL719.G47 1962, exhibit room)) -- source link
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