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Article: Abdication of Queen Christina of Sweden: June 6th, 1654.(Month's Past)
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- June 1, 2004
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SMALL AND POCKMARKED, with her father's big nose and one hunched shoulder, Christina of Sweden had a blazing vitality, intelligence and wit that made her the wonder of Europe. Her father was Gustavus II Adolphus, the colossus who bestrode the North, and he had her reared like a boy. She was five when his death in battle made her 'by the Grace of God, Queen of the Swedes, Goths and Vandals', and the little girl's council of regency soon realised that they had a human dynamo on their hands. Admitted to council meetings from the age of fourteen and crowned at eighteen, she started each day at five sharp in the morning, took an active part in politics and diplomacy and ...
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