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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (Paperback)

by Veronica Buckley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060736186
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060736187
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,459,626 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary Life described brilliantly, 2 Jun 2008
By Klaus van Amelrode "kmcva" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (Hardcover)
Extraordinary is perhaps the word most suited for the book and its subject.
Queen Christina is perhaps - next to her hero father Gustav Adolf - the best known Swedish monarch. Her reign - as a child queen and as a short lived effective ruler - covers partly the time when Swedish power in Europe was at its height. The very daughter of the protestant hero king abdicating and turning into a Roman Catholic is itself a remarkable story. Her personality and her life style after the abdication were the talk of European courts and often provactive to scandalous.

This story has however been told many times. So ist is quite extraodinary that the author manage to shed new light into the personality of the Queen mainly by comparing reality with the very own view the Queen held about events and especially about her very own person. This is a remarkable achievement and very very interesting indeed to read about. So step by step a description of the Queen emerges properly not a flattering, but always an interesing one. She was a person who could not put into a box; one cannot describe her by using stereotypes. She was very special, but that includes not being very easy or in her case not even very likeable. Her very own perspective of her talents, abilities and political judgement did not correspond with the realities. I was wandering whether Sweden was indeed much better off without her as monarch...

Judge for yourself and and above all enjoy this book. It is written in a wonderful style. I would love to give more than just 5 stars as it is really difficult to write a interesting biography with a new persepctive about a personality about whom so many biographies have already been written. The author succeeded brilliantly!

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