Here Kristina soon after her/his/their abdication is described in an extract from a letter written in Amsterdam on June 26, 1654 by "a man of great worth and integrity".
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The coronation in Sweden is already passed, and madam Christina hath resigned her government. We shall see now, whether she will be permitted to go out of the kingdom to squander away so vast a sum of money, which might pay some of those many debts, which she hath contracted. I cannot believe it; but time will shortly determine our conjectures. At Ratisbon it was asserted, that she would travel by the way of Vienna to Rome, and there make open procession of the Popish religion. Those, that have had a personal and near relation to her, count her a very atheist. I shall long to hear what kind of report and character the lord embassador Whitelocke will give of her, when he is returned: for my part, I can make no more the best sense and construction of her person.
Above: Kristina, year 1657.
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