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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 4492092, member: 89314&quot;]POMERANIA under Sweden&nbsp; Kristina 1/2 Taler 1641</p><p><br /></p><p>Kristina succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus at the age of 6 and became ruler at the age of 18 in 1644. She did not share her father&#039;s military ambitions and was a strong supporter of the peace process which led to the Treaties of Westphalia in 1648.&nbsp; However, any money saved was used to support her extravagant lifestyle which almost put Sweden into bankruptcy.&nbsp; She was a tolerant liberal intellectual with very progressive ideas for her time&nbsp; and a lesbian with no interest in getting married and having children, the most important function of queens at that time.&nbsp; In 1654 she abdicated in favour of her cousin Karl Gustav and moved to Rome, where she converted to Catholicism.&nbsp; When she died in 1689, Pope Innocent XI gave here an elaborate state funeral and the rare privilege of being buried in the Grotte Vaticane.&nbsp;&nbsp; However,&nbsp; his successor Pope Alexander VII described Christina as &quot;a queen without a realm, a Christian without faith, and a woman without shame.&quot; (Wikipedia). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1114552[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1114553[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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