Source:
The Town and Country Magazine, Or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, volume 6, page 639 (December, 1774), published by Archibald Hamilton, 1774; original at Harvard University
The biography:
As soon as she had quitted the territories of Sweden, she became a man; or, at least, she took the habit of one. She dismissed her women, and retained only in her service five gentlemen, who were all ignorant where they went. She stayed some time in Antwerp, where she resumed the dress of a woman. The prince of Condé, for whom she had much esteem, was then in that city [sic]. The formalities of the ceremonial hindered him from paying her a visit, but he stole one day into her chamber, among her courtiers. "I must see that princess", said he, "who has so easily resigned a crown, for which others combat with so much ardour, and which we have fought during our whole life, without being able to attain." He went some days after in the same manner, when Christina, coming up to him, said, "My cousin! who would have believed, ten years ago, that you and I should thus meet at a distance from our country?" And[,] we may add, in a state which had been laid waste by the father of Christina, and where Condé himself had carried fire and sword.
Above: Kristina.
Above: Louis de Bourbon, the Prince de Condé.
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