Aug 12, 2019
history meme ♦ 5 queens [1/5] Christina, Queen of Sweden
“Christina’s world was a crossroads world, where God still ruled, but men had begun to doubt. She herself would stand at many crossroads, of religion and power, of science and society and sex. And she would prove a dazzling exemplar of her own quixotic era, an exemplar of great, flawed beauty, like the misshapen baroque pearl that would give its name to her vibrant, violent age” – Veronica Buckley; Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
