QUEEN CHRISTINA of Sweden, the daughter of the Protestant hero Gustavus Adolphus, is best known for having resigned at one and the same time the throne of her father and the faith for which he died. Most people also know that she spent the last thirty...
QUEEN CHRISTINA of Sweden, the daughter of the Protestant hero Gustavus Adolphus, is best known for having resigned at one and the same time the throne of her father and the faith for which he died. Most people also know that she spent the last thirty years of her life in Rome, and that during a visit to France in 1657 she had her equerry, the Marquis Monaldesco, brutally put to death in the castle of Fontainebleau.