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	Queen Silvia of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden (Silvia Renate Bernadotte, née Sommerlath, born 23 December 1943) is the wife of King Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden's monarch, and the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria.
		Before her marriage to the king of Sweden, Silvia Sommerlath worked at the Argentinian Consulate in Munich, was an educational host during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and served as the Deputy Head of Protocol for the Winter Games in Innsbruck in Austria.
		Queen Silvia is involved in numerous charity organizations, especially in the area of disadvantaged children, and has made several public statements about human rights and the sexual exploitation of children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silvia_Sommerlath (935 words)

	Christina of Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the heiress presumptive she succeeded her father to the throne of Sweden upon his death at the Battle of Lützen (November 6, 1632) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the Thirty Years' War.
		Queen Christina's mother, Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, came from the Hohenzollern family.
		She was a woman of quite distraught temperament, and her attempts to bestow guilt on Christina for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may have prejudiced Christina against the prospect of having to produce a heir to the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christina_of_Sweden (1327 words)

	Encyclopedia: Queen Silvia of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her Royal Highness Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Madeleine ThÃ©rÃ¨se Amelie Josephine (born June 10, 1982), Duchess of Helsingia and Gestricia, is the youngest child and second daughter of Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia of Sweden.
		Princess Lilian of Sweden, nÃ©e Lilian May Davies, (born 30 August 1915), Duchess of Hallandia, was born in Wales in the United Kingdom as the daughter of William and Gladys Mary Davies.
		HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria, Victoria Ingrid Alice Desirée, (born July 14, 1977), Duchess of Westregothia, is the heir apparent of Sweden, being the first-born child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and his commoner Queen Silvia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Queen-Silvia-of-Sweden (2364 words)

	SWEDEN.SE - Queen Christina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Queen Christina returned to Rome in November of 1668, after an absence of two and a half years, she was welcomed at a festive banquet and for a short time enjoyed the beneficence of that pope, whom she could truly count among her friends.
		Thus Christina of Sweden received a final resting place in that city with which she had such a significant association during the latter half of the 17th century, and which even today bears witness to the impact of the Swedish queen on Roman life in the Baroque era.
		Rodén, Marie-Louise, Cardinal Decio Azzolino, Queen Christina of Sweden and the Squadrone Volante.
	www.sweden.se /templates/FactSheet____4403.asp (6904 words)

	Queen Silvia of Sweden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden (Silvia Renate Bernadotte, née Sommerlath, born 23 December 1943) is the wife of (additional info and facts about King Carl XVI Gustaf) King Carl XVI Gustaf, Sweden's monarch, and the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, (additional info and facts about Crown Princess Victoria) Crown Princess Victoria.
		Before her marriage to the king of Sweden, Silvia Sommerlath worked at the Argentinian Consulate in Munich, was an educational host during the (additional info and facts about 1972 Summer Olympics) 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and served as the Deputy Head of Protocol for the Winter Games in Innsbruck in Austria.
		On her initiative, Silviahemmet was established in (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) Stockholm.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/q/qu/queen_silvia_of_sweden.htm (1002 words)

	Queen Christina of Sweden
		She was born in 1626 and became queen in 1632 when Sweden was actively engaged in the Thirty Years War.
		Sweden's participation in the Thirty Years War was effectively directed by this regency until in 1644 when Christina came of age.
		Oxenstierna wanted to retain as many of Sweden's conquered overseas territory as he was aware that Sweden had been financially stretched to the limit by the time the war was drawing to a close and these conquered territories were a way for Sweden to re-finance herself.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /queen_christina_of_sweden.htm (418 words)

	CHRISTINA - LoveToKnow Article on CHRISTINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(1626-1689), queen of Sweden, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, was born at Stockholm on the 8th of December 1626.
		She seemed to consider Swedish affairs as far too petty to occupy her full attention; while her unworthy treatment of the great chancellor was mainly due to her jealousy of his extraordinary reputation and to the uneasy conviction that, so long as he was alive, his influence must at least be equal to her own.
		She contemplated an alliance with Spain, a state quite outside the orbit of Swedens influence, the firstfruits of which were to have been an invasion of Portugal.
	47.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHRISTINA.htm (996 words)

	Christina of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christina of Sweden was born on December 8, 1626 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		When Christina came of age and was crowned queen in 1644, she opposed Oxenstierna and there was constant friction between them thereafter, in particular concerning the Thirty Years War.
		At a peace conference in Luebeck in 1651, the Poles refused to refer to Christina as the "Queen of Sweden." Casimir was threatening to occupy Danzing, and Christina was forced to send troops to Finland and Livonia while the conference was in progress.
	www.kings.edu /womens_history/christina.html (1443 words)

	Kristina Wasa, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689)
		1626 December 8, Kristina Wasa was born in Sweden of King Gustav II Adolf and Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg.
		Chancellor Oxenstiern installed as head of regency to oversee Sweden until Kristina reaches eighteen and a select group of scholars headed by theologian Johannes Matthiae is chosen to oversee her education.
		Kristina is crowned queen before the council of rengents and her education commences.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/wasa.html (1213 words)

	Royalty.nu - Swedish Royalty, Kings and Queen of Sweden
		Some of the history of the early kings of Sweden can be found in the English poem Beowulf, which was probably written in the seventh or eighth century AD, and sagas such as the Heimskringla, by 13th century Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson.
		Sweden dropped out of the Kalmar union in 1523 and elected its own king, Gustav I. The current Swedish royal family, the House of Bernadotte, is descended from a French commoner, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who was a marshal of Napoleon Bonaparte.
		Biography of the enigmatic and paradoxical queen of Sweden.
	www.royalty.nu /Europe/Scandinavia/Sweden.html (1536 words)

	queen christina of sweden and other sweden related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Queen Christina of Sweden and her circle : the transformation of a seventeenth century philosophical libertine." New York: E.J. Brill.
		Queen Christina Of Sweden And The Marquis Monaldeschi
		Queen Elizabeth And The Earl Of Leicester Mary Queen Of Scots And Lord Bothwell Queen Christina Of Sweden And The Marquis Monaldeschi King Charles II And Nell Gwyn Maurice Of Saxony And Adrienne...
	www.nethorde.com /sweden/queen-christina-of-sweden.html (322 words)

	wpchris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Queen Christina was born in 1626 in Stockholm, Sweden to King Gustavus II and Marie-Eleanore of Brandenburg.
		During Christina's reign in Sweden, she wished to be educated in all fields, especially music and philosophy.
		The ballet was performed on her Birthday and it describes the horrors of war and the cultural achievements made possile by the Queen's protection of peace.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /Blair/Courses/MUSL243/wpchris.htm (1074 words)

	Queen Christina (1933)
		Queen Christina (1933) is one of Greta Garbo's quintessential, most-remembered screen portrayals (and one of her finest films), with glowing scenes (enhanced by her favorite cinematographer William Daniels) that reflect the mystique of the lovely, enigmatic actress.
		The plot, ending with the Queen's abdication from her kingdom and self-imposed exile and withdrawal (for the ill-fated love of a Spanish nobleman-envoy), in order to follow her heart to Spain (to return her slain lover to his homeland), prophetically echoed the same sort of conflict that Garbo struggled with in her private life.
		The elderly king of Sweden falls mortally wounded at the Battle of Lutzen, uttering his last words: "I was King of Sweden." A sweeping camera moves from the King's crown (resting on a velvet pillow) back through the council in the Swedish court.
	www.filmsite.org /quee.html (2185 words)

	Swedish History - Kristina, Queen of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because there was a lack of money in Sweden, she gave them pieces of land as a reward for their achievements in battles.
		One of the reasons for her abdication, was probably that she became tired of ruling.
		Another reason was that she became a Catholic, and Sweden could not have a Catholic ruler.
	www.utb.boras.se /uk/se/projekt/history/articles/greatpow/greatp11.htm (419 words)

	Philosophers : Christina of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Perhaps best known as the indirect cause of death of Rene Descartes, Princess Christina of Sweden was a student of the master philosopher.
		She is well-known as the provacateur of Descartes' "Letter on Love." This was the beginning of a number of letters that passed between the two, which influenced Christina to eventually call Descartes to her home in Sweden in order for him to better tutor her in the Cartesian methods of philosophy.
		A well educated and intelligent monarch, she converted to Catholicism soon after Descares' death, and after abdicating the throne in 1654 she moved to Rome where she died alone, unknown and penniless.
	www.trincoll.edu /depts/phil/philo/phils/christina.html (139 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Queen Christina is perhaps - next to her hero father Gustav Adolf - the best known Swedish monarch.
		Her reign - as a child queen and as a short lived effective ruler - covers partly the time when Swedish power in Europe was at its height.
		So ist is quite extraodinary that the author manage to shed new light into the personality of the Queen mainly by comparing reality with the very own view the Queen held about events and especially about her very own person.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841157368 (777 words)

	Swedish history, Swedish queens (Märta of Denmark)... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the year 1298 she was married to king Birger Magnusson of Sweden and gave birth to the son Mgnus.
		In connection with Håltuna leken 1306, when the king was taken prisoner by his brothers the dukes Erik and Valdemar, märta was thrown in to prison.
		The seven year old crown prince was taken to the queens brother, the king of Denmark.
	www.luth.se /luth/present/sweden/history/queens/martaofdenmark (121 words)

	Queen Christina of Sweden by Torrey Philemon
		Queen Christina Wasa of Sweden ruled from 1640 - 1654, then abdicated her throne to Charles Gustavas and converted to Catholicism, which was illegal in Sweden.
		After abdicating, she lived in Rome, and was an active proponent of religious freedom and a patroness of the arts.
		The Greta Garbo film, Queen Christina, is a highly fictionalized portrait of her last years as queen.
	www.windweaver.com /christina/christina.htm (123 words)

	PopcornQ Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However, just underneath the heterosexual act is a clear queer appeal and it's easy to imagine the queen as a dyke and her male love interest as a queen.
		When the queen meets Antonio (John Gilbert) in a country tavern/inn (where she is traveling in male disguise), they end up having to share a room together.
		The queen thereafter toys with the affections of a court ambassador (whom she's obviously not interested in) until she meets Antonio.
	www.planetout.com /kiosk/popcornq/db/getfilm.html?1891 (424 words)

	New Statesman: Catholic ambitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of all our images of Christina, queen of Sweden--as hermaphrodite, lesbian, Swedish hero, patron of the arts--the one that has lodged most firmly in our imagination is that of Greta Garbo gazing out to sea from the prow of a ship in Rouben Mamoulian's 1933 film Queen Christina.
		Christina's ascension to the throne came at a time when, thanks to the martial prowess of her father, Gustavus II Adolphus, Sweden was establishing itself as the champion of Protestant Europe.
		In effect kidnapped by her troops, he was taken in the winter of 1649 to Stockholm where he provided the queen with philosophy lessons at 5am three times each week, in freezing-cold rooms.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4684_133/ai_n6155116 (795 words)

	Conversion of a Queen -- Christina of Sweden in Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Conversion of a Queen -- Christina of Sweden in Rome
		It's big news when a protestant monarch abdicates to become a Catholic and then goes to live in Rome, especially if it happens during the Counter-Reformation and more especially if she is the daughter of Adolphus II whose participation in the Thirty Years War had so greatly damaged Catholicism.
		The Vatican had made her a Catholic icon and ignored her eccentricities (including, a lot of cross-dressing), but a famous Pasquinade had it that she was "queen without a realm, Christian without a faith, and woman without shame".
	www.mmdtkw.org /VChristina.html (261 words)

	Christina, Queen of Sweden By Veronica Buckley
		The story of Queen Christina of Sweden begins even before her birth on a cold December night in 1626.
		He made certain she was brought up as a France and taught what she would need to know as a queen.
		Christina, Queen of Sweden explodes a few of the common myths about this renegade queen.
	www.myshelf.com /biography/05/christinaqueenofsweden.htm (296 words)

	Pravda.RU:King And Queen Of Sweden To Arrive In Petersburg Wednesday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The hospital's head physician Galina Tyuleneva told RIA Novosti that the Queen intended to visit a just repaired nurse post for HIV-infected children with wards for 15 beds each, a playing room for children and a nurse's working place.
		Funds to repair the department were given by the Children's Fund with Queen Silvia as one of its patron.
		Queen Silvia will also visit the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, examine the collection of the Academy's museum and attend a ballet class.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2001/10/10/17617_.html (466 words)

	David Beck : Beck, David, after
		Queen Christina was a fascinating person whose life was also quite exceptional.
		The real reasons for her decision were kept secret, but she felt that her destiny was not confined to the rule of the remote country of Sweden.
		She has a letter in her right hand that is resting on a stone ball and her left hand is on her shoulder holding a scarf that is fluttering in the wind.
	www.fng.fi /fng/html4/en/siff/guide/painting/cont/chap2/sect1/page6.htm (961 words)

	Amazon.com: Christina, Queen of Sweden : The Restless Life of a European Eccentric: Books: Veronica Buckley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Formally ascending the Swedish throne in 1644, she proved to be a lavish and fiscally irresponsible monarch, leading Sweden to the verge of bankruptcy in six short years.
		While Buckley has admirably and extensively researched and detailed her portrait of Europe in the 1600's, her characterizations of Christina of Sweden are irritatingly judgemental and peevish.
		The queen is placed within her time period and Buckley wisely refrains from enforcing a modern view on the queen's lifestyle and decisions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060736178?v=glance (1280 words)

	Who was Queen Christina of Sweden?
		Most of her life, Christina was a queen without a realm, and often without reliable income.
		She depended entirely on her own political and interpersonal finesse in order to gain the means to support herself and her causes, and could be ruthlessly manipulative and deceptive in order to serve her own ends - ends which did, nonetheless, frequently benefit others.
		After her father's death, Christina grew to detest the constant long sermons of Sweden's Lutheran religion, and the years of mourning rituals that preoccupied her mother.
	www.windweaver.com /christina/intro.htm (1357 words)

	Christina of Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christina (1626 – 1689) or Kristina, later known as Maria Christina Alexandra and sometime Count Dohna, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654, was the daughter of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
		She was born in Stockholm on December 18, 1626 and the birth occurred during a rare astrological conjunction that fueled great speculation on what influence the child, fervently hoped to be a boy, would have later on the world stage.
		The complex character of Christina also inspired the film Queen Christina in 1934.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Christina-of-Sweden.htm (1205 words)

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