![]() ![]() This division between her parents defined Christina’s early childhood. Take her from me, I will not have such a monster!” Queen Maria ![]() “Instead of a son, I am given a daughter, dark and ugly, with a great nose and black eyes. It was several days before she found out the truth, and it’s reported that when she realised she tried to attack Christina, shouting: Her mental instability was well known, so the news was kept from her for her own good. ![]() Her father took the news of having a daughter reasonably well, but Queen Maria was much less sanguine. There’s some modern speculation that she might have been intersex to some degree, but whether that’s the case or not is impossible to tell. The most common reason given at the time was that she was “hairy”, though her “big nose” and “deep voice” are also cited. Why it was thought that Christina was a boy is unclear. “She’ll be a clever one, she’s fooled all of us!” It was the King’s sister Catherine who then had to bring him the news that there had been a mistake, by wordlessly walking up to him with the princess naked in her arms. Maria was delighted on the 18th December 1626 when the midwives told her she had just given birth to a healthy baby boy, and the news was immediately rushed to the King. Though women could inherit the Swedish throne, it would definitely be easier for a man. The only legitimate heirs to the throne of Sweden at the time were the King of Poland and his sons, and Sweden had been at war with Poland for the last 26 years. Her parents had no surviving children, and her mother Maria was desperate to give King Gustavus a son. Christina of Sweden was trouble, right from the moment she was born. ![]()
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