Source:
A journal of the Swedish ambassy, in the years M.DCC.LIII. and M.DCC.LIV., volume 1, page 407, Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1772
The visit:
Whitelocke, hearing that the queen was not well, sent his son James to inquire of her majesty's health: she commaunded to have him brought into her bed-chamber, where he delivered his message in latin, and she complemented him in the same language; which she used not to speake butt in a speciall favour, and bid him tell his father, that she was well againe, and now "se non alio morbo laborare, quam quod tres integros dies non convenerit ipsam;" she was sicke of no other disease, butt that for three whole dayes he had not bin with her.
Above: Kristina.
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