Queen Christina of Sweden
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Christina of Sweden defied gender and religious norms to live her life in her own way. Dressing as a man, loving women and eventually giving up the throne to convert to Catholicism and live in Rome as a patron of the arts.
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"she will be clever, for she has made fools of us all" thats kind of really sweet
Alexandria it is
That's so sweet, my father would've been like "well, she looks like a man I guess. Oh well."
It's adorably humorous :D
YESSSS
Very sweet 💕
She was really out there living the weird artsy lesbian aunt dream life huh?
Baylie Crowley lololol, does sound like it
Except she was bisexual, rather than a lesbian.
@@superasper sapphic is better, bc it's hard to know whether she really liked men or not, just that she loved women.
@@sylviebrebach8371 butch sapphic for the win!!!
@@sylviebrebach8371 She most likely had a love affair with cardinal Decio Azzolino - he received a letter from the Pope, ordering him to stop visiting Christina at night, and several love letters from Azzolino to Kristina are known. There is no definitive evidence, but the implications are strong and history professor Marie-Louise Rodén who is considered an international authority on Christina is convinced, at least.
CEO of not like other girls
Hahhahaha
How?
She literally is other girls 😂
“I’m not like other girls, I’m the Monarch of Sweden”
@@ARedMagicMarker Almost her entire personality was that she was different from other females because she was smarter and didn't care about "frivolous" things like fashion. She tried to distance herself from anything that would make her seem overtly feminine. Unfortunately, she was also very mean about it.
She sounded like the ultimate tomboy, kind of the "not like other girls" type of character, but y'know, a real person who existed.
dont call women tomboys its rude and sexist
@@jan-nn9ix I don't think I ever heard this before. I even know women and girls who call themselves that. First time ever I heard being associated with sexism.
@@jan-nn9ix It is not rude to say 'tomboy' - I'm a woman and I use it to describe myself all the time
@@jan-nn9ix My mother is a tomboy and she knows and so do I that its not sexist.
@@eligorham525 yes it is just call us women
Christina was truly way ahead of her time not because her sexual orientation but because of her open mindedness. She was one of a kind!
@Lilah Helmer They said specifically NOT because her sexuality but because of her open mindedness
@@MikuHatsune12 her Open mindedness ideas STILL existed before her, nothing new under the sun.
@@justicewhite4739 i dont get this comment, did i argue against that?
@@justicewhite4739 you do understand is time where women speaking their thoughts out loud was consider outrageous and your diminishing the comment by simply brushing off that either sexuality or open mindedness existed waaay before her. Do you still not get that it makes her remarkable cause she was an open minded woman, queen, cultured, ahead of her time and it’s impressive as it is. Even more, as a queen or royal itself, you have to behave in certain way. You have a weight on your shoulder, and she still chose to be herself and stand up for her thoughts. Remarkable indeed, whether you can’t recognize it the right way or not.
She’s the reason Sweden lost her empire
What a rock star.
Translation into🇸🇪: Vilken rockstjärna.
I MY GOSH ITS MR.BEAT
@@rose-marielundholm3597 90
Oh shit history man
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The sad thing about Christina of Sweden is that she clearly had a lot of unrealized misogyny as she saw females and femininity as "less than" men and masculinity. Unfortunately there was not a lot of discussion at the time about this topic, and the inherit, unequal differences between the sexes was a given, not really an argument. I feel bad that she saw women as weak and vapid, and that to be a man meant that she was "better". She was a very cool woman, but unfortunately that misogyny was inevitably going to be a part of her life because there was no conversation around it....at least not mainstream enough that she would have ever questioned her convictions. Maybe she would not have been such a "tomboy" if she (and society) had respected women and feminine traits as much as men and masculine traits. Thank you for posting about her, she really has an interesting history.
@Cynthia Murphy
Well Cynthia, that's mysoginyst. Sorry. I hope that you can change your mind one day.
Elizabeth, I agree with you! Unfortunately, that was the mindset of the time.
I was thinking about that and perhaps most of her disdain towards women came from how they were treated and had to live back then. She was literally educated as a prince and maybe seeing the other women not sharing the same knowledge as she created that vision. I wonder what she'd think of modern women, who share education similar to men, she wore male clothes because it was more practical, maybe if she saw how easy a girl today can put a flowery dress she wouldn't be so masculine.
But that's just me wondering, time-travel still out of the table.
@@mellamanelizabeth8317 you're replying to yourself?
I don’t like women because every interaction Ive ever had with women was seething with double meaning. I like women who are straightforward, don’t hold grudges, and can actually handle themselves. Where im from 99.9% of the women are 1. On drugs 2. Two faced 3. Social climbers 4. Your typical catty mean girl and most of the time it’s all 4.
I was raised with boys, I was the only granddaughter for 26 years(my uncle and his wife finally just had a little girl this year!) , I don’t know how to be around or deal with women so I just stay away from them. Call it misogyny if you want to 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t really care lol.
So she was the og “I’m not like other girls”
She was a liberal who showed respect for all faiths, before it was popular.
Lindsay holiday you are like my best friend you have a very nice voice it is just like a teacher reading books to you.
I'm loving the queens of Europe series that you're doing at the moment! Really appreciate it during isolation❤❤❤
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I am loving them too😊❤️
Christina sounds like someone you'd want to sit down and have a few drinks with. I doubt I could say that about any other royal.
Defo not prince andrew lol
true
Lmao she hated alcohol tho! She would have been like: can I get a water please
You could do it with Princess Alice of Greece. She was really chill
Christina is one of my favorite historical figures of all-time, and definitely my favorite royal to ever walk the earth. I was always fascinated with her as a child, and that definitely made sense later on when I realized I was a lesbian too. She's real tangible proof that we've always been around, even in the highest reaches of society. It's crazy to me that, even with hundreds of years between us, lesbians still have very similar internal experiences and struggles today regarding gender expression and the societal expectation for women to marry men and center our lives around them.
Charlie Quartz Christina is one of my all time favorite historical figures as well!!., if you haven’t seen the movie based on her reign you should check it out, it’s on Netflix &I believe they may have spelled her name with a “K” in the title. Also, *TY* for Not saying she’s “Not like other girls”!!!👏🏽👏🏽 What tf is that even supposed to mean anyhow?!?.. if I 👀/read that 1 more time I’m gonna 🤢🤮🤢‼️
@Woiller- Relic you sound upset. please continue crying about it.
@Woiller- Relic does anyone else hear a crying infant?
Eh i prefer margretha and elenor of auqataine
Charlie Quartz, I think it’s awesome that she had the guts to be herself in that time.
Lindsey, could you make a video about Queens of world
Empress Wu
Catherine the Great
Razia Sultama
Hatshepsut
Hurrem Sultan
Mara Branković
Wasn’t empress wu a slight tyrant or am I thinking of someone eles
KK and sims 4 She wasn’t that good of a mother that I know. But Lindsay already made a video about her.
I love Hurrem sultan 🥰🥰
I’m really happy that queen Christina’s dad wasn’t angry one bit that she was a girl, and was actually grateful!
girls today : *dye their hair some other natural looking color* i'm not like other girls
Christina , a *ROYAL* girl who lived in the 1600s : hold my bible
I would tag princess Alice on the not like other girls either .
How bout we just love and not judge. Judging is the root cause of many tragedies.
@@kkandsims4612 Alice the grand duchess of Hesse + by Rhine? or the countess of athlone?
Thank you so much for making this. Queen Christina has been my favorite female monarch since I studied her in college. When I had to do a presentation about her for one of my courses, I did it while dressed in a man's 3-piece suit as tribute to her 😎
Oooh, that must have been fire!!! :D I love wearing menswear. One of my favorite pieces I have, is a very retro wool mens blazer, it even has the elbow patches on it. Very fitted in the waist. I wore it to class with a black turtle neck, black skinny pleated trousers and brown flats.
You couldn't tell me nothing, I knew I looked good! I love mixing the feminine with the masculine.
@@Indiegirl007 yep. I wish more masculine, practical clothes were made for women. It's almost impossible to find.
I always find it sad that in the past wonderful strong women have to have something wrong with them to cause their above average talents or skills. Christina has strong opinions and spoke her mind so of course she was not a regular female. I do understand it was the times but it's still so strange
It makes me sadder that this is still considered strange. And like her, it makes me wonder if I'm even a Woman because I don't believe in gender roles and I certainly dont follow any of them.. I speak my mind a lot more than other women and even some women scold me for that. I hate this.
What was "wrong" about her??
@@est9949 nothing I'm reality but the male preseption that strong women are mental or hysterical.
THIS!! Hate it when people say “Whoah, she’s so smart and bold for a woman, maybe she was actually part man all along?” Also people attribute her intellect to her lesbianism (of all things), lol
Her art collection is fantastic.
Did you know that Christina turning to Catholic was maybe the biggest scandal in history. (According to some historians.) Why?
Well her father was the Gustavus Adolphus, "the Lion of the North", the number one champion and hero of the Protestant world. He was a devout Lutheran.
So Christina's turning to Catholic was a MASSIVE propaganda victory to the Catholic Church.
To give you an idea how big the scandal was back then, imagine if George W. Bush's daughter had went to Afganistan, turned to Muslim, and married Osama in Laden. Even that example wouldn't have as big scandal as Christina's.
Who exactly is/was
George W. Bush's Daughter??
like what's her name??
@@monabohamad2242 I don't know... but that was the example my history teacher gave us.
@@monabohamad2242 I think ones name is Barbra and the other ones name is Humm idk but I know there twins I know the older twin is named after his mom Barbra and I know his wife’s name is Laura
@@monabohamad2242He and his wife Laura have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. They’re fraternal twins.
It’s kind of up in the air on whether she was a lesbian or not because such effusive letters were common in that time period, especially from educated women. I think she wanted to be the next virgin queen like Elizabeth I. She read a biography on Elizabeth and was struck by Elizabeth’s perpetual virginity and was impressed by the Catholic religion and celibacy at the age of 9.
When the Swedish colonized the now United States they named one of their forts “Christina” after her. That fort was destroyed, but there is still a city in Delaware near the original fort Christina that is named Christiana.
There aren’t actually any cities in Delaware named Christina or Christiana but there are malls, parks, a river and such named after her. They circulate the main metropolis area of New Castle county. 🙂
Your video came out great, Swedish history is lowkey fascinating!
Please do a video on Anne Boylen ,Mary Queen of Scots,Catherine de Medici,Mary of guise,Marie Antoinette,Elizabeth I ,Queen Anne of Great Britain and Bloody Mary
She has made videos on many of the people that you listed.
are you watching reign lol
Mary I. Not Bloody Mary
Jammy Dodger she’s working on a Marie Antoinette vid
E u r o p e a n h i s t o r y?
Look at her, living her life like a BOSS!
With the money of her people that she did nothing to help. Yup, a real boss.
At least she has the guts to stand for what she believes in, unlike most other royalties.
@sisu mies “she was a fool” what? She was said to be extremely intelligent and was a patron of the arts and sciences did you even read her history lol
Love this Video. Lots of love from Sweden ❤🇸🇪
She was a woman ahead of her time! 😱 her incredible life inspired many drama films like "Queen Christina" (1933) starring by Greta Garbo and "The Abdication" (1974) starring by Liv Ullmann🤴🏻
We need a biopic about her life. She's honestly an amazing figure in history.
Surprised Netflix hasn’t done a miniseries on her yet!
They do have a movie about her on Netflix
I have always been fascinated by Queen Christine. She’s a fascinating person.
Watch a clip from the 1933 film about her, with Greta Garbo as Christina:
"Queen Christina - I shall die a bachelor"
I watched that movie years ago and was so surprised at what they got away with! I think it must have been made before code! Another movie I watched in a film class called "Isn't It Romantic" was also made before code and the class was surprised at the content!!
"Chasing Jews in the streets during carnivals"... excuse me WHUT?
They get paid wellz don't worry 👍
Time stamp?
Llyn Kynaston 12:40
The first ghetto was the Jewish outside of Venice. Ghetto is an Italian word. Jewish children were baptized and forcibly taken away from their families well into the 1800’s.😢
History hasn’t been kind to them AT ALL
You should do Catherin the great. She wasn't even Russian but managed to become one of the greatest Czars in history.
She wasn't the greatest.
@@cesarzpontu8886 one of!!
She was something else! Extremely progressive.
The first time I've heard about this amazing woman king was from reading one of the Royal Diaries series, "The Girl King" from my childhood. Loving your queens of Europe videos. Perhaps next year you could expand by covering queens of Asia and Africa?
I was just binging on your vids and then this snuck in! Thanks so much for your work. You know how to find the choicest and most interesting bits of history😊👌
Thank you for the new content while we're on lock down!
*I’m not like the other ladies in the court.*
You have no idea how long I've waited for you to make this video!
Do Jadwiga of Poland next, please
omg yes please
Zuzanna Kostera
She just did
It astounds me she is not talked about more! She is too interesting to not be more well known! Hoping she gains recognition like queen victoria has in recent years
My favorite of your videos so far!!!
Who came here after watching The Girl King?
you've been so productive with the videos and it matters so much to me right now
Very much enjoyed! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video!!
I have been binging your videos this entire ‘break”
Enjoyed this one!
Lindsay I so look forward to your videos. The pandemic one really messed me up, but it was still a good one lol. Thanks for making these!
These videos are making lockdown so much more interesting 👑 thank you
Good job on your videos!! so informative and addicting watching all lol!❤❤history❤❤
One of my favourite Monarchs. The movie "The girl king" is about her. Good movie. Thank you.
This story should be a miniseries or something, her life is so interesting and kind of relevant to our life today
Enjoyed your video, didn't know anything about Queen Christina. TYFS and stay safe and healthy 😊
I just love all your videos.
I love your content. Can you also please, please make a video about Julie d'Aubigny. Her wiki info is super wild and interesting! I really want to know more about her life and story. Thank you!
more more more!! give us more of these@@ self quarantined for COVID 19 and these are a joy!!!
I loved this episode, it would be amazing if you someday did an episode on Eva Peron, such interesting character in Argentina/South America History
Very interesting piece of the puzzle in terms of Swedish history, not just politically but culturally as well. The painful, long and drawn out execution of Monaldeschi was brutal to say the least. A complex life born into a complex family and time. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Wonderful video thank you.
Therapist: “do some self care and read some dirty poems” 🤣 the advice holds up
A queen in the literal sense and the figurative sense, what a legend.
She is a normal smart 21st century girl living in the old times.
Not so difficult to 'live by your own rules', when the peasants are paying for all your luxuries, arts and wars.
But wasn't that true of all royals?
@@roxyshow123 yes, and..? she spend a ton of public money on Art, refused to marry, changed her religion and said 'don't be nasty to other religions'. Woop Dee Do, what a saint. She was rebellious and interesting for the time, but in the end, with her vast resources, everything she did was for her own interests. You could make an argument that other Royal women actually did their duty even when that meant marrying people they didn't like and having babies. Just saying...🤓👍
@@JohnDoe-tx8lq She, for the most part helped her country, did not hurt it.
Anyway, Sweden is no longer a true monarchy. Socialist democracy now.
@@roxyshow123 "for the most part"?? You think she spent most of her resources and time helping her country? She was unliked by her own people because of her wasteful spending, she abandoned the Monarchy, abandoning her Country to live in Rome taking all her valuable possessions, bought with public money, with her 09:29 yer, very generous, thank you Oh So Gracious Majesty.
@@roxyshow123 Entitlement has many facets. Assuming that since she was cut-off of the Swedish treasury, it's only sensible that French troops will kill (and rape and loot) and be killed, to make her a queen of an Italian city says pretty much everything about her worldview.
Love ur videos!!
I work as a crewmember of the recreation of the Kalmar Nyckel, an armed merchant ship sent by the Swedish Navy to America to trade and establish Swedens first colony here when she was 12. Fort Christina used to be in the area next door to where we now dock.
Great documentary. I didn't know much about her. But she was a realy emancipated woman, way ahead of her age. She realy deserves a good picture about her life.
Henry the 8th and Christina's father is the complete opposite 🤣 Henry the 8th wanted a son really bad meanwhile Christina's father adored his daughter and made her his heir ❤️
I can't stand Christina. What do you say about that ?
Nice. Very informative!
I have some mixed feelings about Queen Christina. As a person, she certainly is very admirable and highly interesting, a great early LGBTQ role model. On the other hand, her abdication and the handing over of the throne to her cousin Charles X Gustav paved the way for him to steal all of East Denmark - including my home province of Scania - leading to a lot of death, suffering and oppression here. If she had decided to stay on the throne, Scandinavia might have looked very different today.
To be fair, how could she know he'd go on do something like like that? Besides, she's not responsible for his actions, so blame him not her.
So you rather speaking Danish than being a Swede? 🤣
Are you from Denmark where Princess Mary lives?
@@genera1013 She put him on the throne though, so yes, she's just as responsible.
Nice Video! Its very interessant 💗
I work as an guide at a castle and we have there a portrait of her. Unfortunately only thing I dare to tell people about her is that she was crowned a king and didn't want to marry. Sadly some people can be really rude. One day I hope that we will be able to present her to public as the badass woman she truly was.
This is..... so fascinating
This did go more in depth than we did in school. It didn't necessarily add anything personally but it was nice to know more
i appreciate you featuring female figures from history. thank you
In terms of expressing herself, she sounds very ahead of her time! Good job Lindsay 🤗
One of the greatest teachers was able to teach one of the greatest students. Rene and Christina, the Philosopher and the Queen... A Philosopher Queen.
You know how some people find an old painting that looks exactly like them? That's her with me. We have the same eyes, nose, hair, and double chin
According to my family history, Queen Christina is my 9th cousin 10 times removed. We share the same great-something grandfather.
Seiferboy Gaming haha sure 😂😂
Woah interesting
Very interesting those discovered videos..
Wow she was an amazing woman! If only more people were like her. It would’ve been a much better world.
"Physically typical female..." that had massive metaphorical balls.
God bless you Lindsay Holiday. Greetings from the Philippines
Nice portrait of our former queen Kristina. However, there is some things that needs clarification in your story. The body of her father Gustaf II Adolf was not held by queen Maria Eleonora for 18 months. He died at the battle of Lutzen the 6 of November 1632 and it took until August 1633 to bring him home to Stockholm. He was balsamated soon after he died and hes heart was kept in a cloth in a small box that the queen kept close to her for a long time. She postponed the burial for 10 months but she didn't kept his body for herself during that time. He finally was buried in june 1634. The cloth called "the heart cloth" can bee seen today at the "livrustkammaren" in the royal castle of Sweden. Also, the linen shirt the king was wearing at the time of his death can also be seen there, along with his war horse Streiff.
I just watched The Girl King. It's a good movie. I love it ..
It’s incredible how different she looks in each picture.. would never have guessed these were all of the same woman!
I liked the video, first of yours I've seen. I plan to watch some older videos.
I wish we learned about stuff like this in school this is interesting
This is how I like to learn more about my country's history x)
Who is your favorite queen in history?
History and Headlines Maria Antonia/Marie Antoinette, Elizabeth 1 of England, Anne Boleyn, and this one Christina.
History and Headlines Queen Catherine of Arogon and Queen Elizabeth the 1st
My top 10; Queen Victoria, Mary I, Elenor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth II, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Mary II of England, The 9 days queen Jane Grey, Marie Antoinette, and Empress Theodora.
Queen Victoria
Marie of hesse-kassel
That was great, she sounded a super intresting person
Oh... Here it's is! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Christina is certainly a fascinating figure. I've learned a couple of new details about her from this video.
Looks like I have a lot of other videos about the notable queens to watch here.
BTW have you heard about Queen Bona Sforza? I think she'll fit perfectly for this channel.
LET'S GO LESBIANS LETS GO!!!1
Yes.
Yuck
😆 lmao yessss
@sisu mies what’s wrong with being gay? lol
@sisu mies wtf are you talking about? Being gay is natural
She is a vibe!
I knew I heard of this story somewhere the movie it was really good
She is my new favorite Queen!!
I’m from Sweden and we learn about Christina in school!
For the longest time I thought Christina gave up her throne for love.
Yeah, Hollywood: Queen Cristina - Greta Garbo (1933)
@@roxyshow123 I saw that movie and it was okay but even though all the movies on Christina have some historical inaccuracies, if you're looking for a film in English that has at least some more I recommend watching "The Abdication" or "The Girl King".
@@elsakristina2689 I'll check it out, thanks.
@@roxyshow123 ^^
I actually like Christina, she is such a iconic queen
Great story, I love her, a movie of her life would be a fabulous watch, but who would play such a dynamic role!!?
There is already a movie "the girl king"
Please Queen Nzinga next