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![]() ![]() From the start, confusion ruled her life. In a highly readable, well-researched biography, subtitled The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, Veronica Buckley analyses the complex reasons for Christina's extravagantly quixotic gesture. She realized it too late, when there was no turning back. A Queen without a crown, and with begging bowl in hand, was of little account on the European stage. ![]() The second, seven years later in 1660, shows her wary and disillusioned. In the first, painted a year before she abdicated, a young woman of 26 stares confidently from the canvas, bright-eyed and proud. We can see what it cost her in the two portraits reproduced in this biography. For a woman who relished power as much as Queen Christina, to renounce the throne of Sweden seems singularly perverse. ![]()
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