Simple Swedish Podcast - #298 - Kristina - Drottningen som lämnade tronen

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Nivå A2-B1 I det här avsnittet pratar vi om en av de mest fascinerande personerna i svensk historia - drottning Kristina. Kristina var en svensk drottning som frivilligt abdikerade (lämnade tronen), vägrade gifta sig, och konverterade till katolicismen. Hon var också känd för sin manliga klädstil och sitt intresse för filosofi, konst och vetenskap. Du får en historisk bakgrund till 1600-talet, Kristinas uppväxt, hennes tid som drottning och hennes senare liv i Rom. För att stödja podden - klicka här Transkript Ja men hallå hallå och välkommen till Simple Swedish Podcast! Och idag ska vi ha ett lite historiskt avsnitt. Vi ska prata om drottning Kristina. En väldigt fascinerande personlighet från Sveriges historia. Så. En liten kort introduktion bara så drottning Kristina. Hon var en svensk drottning som frivilligt valde att abdikera. Att abdikera betyder att man säger jag vill inte vara monark längre. Jag vill inte vara drottning längre. Jag vill inte vara kung längre. Utan jag. Avsäger mig min krona och lämnar tronen. Det är att abdikera. Och det är såklart inte så många som har gjort det genom historien. Men hon är en av få som har abdikerat frivilligt. Hon klädde sig också ofta i ganska manliga kläder. Vilket var ovanligt. Framförallt så ville hon inte gifta sig. Hon vägrade gifta sig. Och hon konverterade till katolicismen. Vilket var inte så bra i Sverige på den tiden. För Sverige var protestantiskt. Och Sverige var i ett krig mot katolikerna, så vi har en drottning som konverterar till fiendens religion. Fienden är alltså de du krigar mot. Det är så, ja, en fascinerande personlighet i svensk historia. Först ska vi då tacka några patrons innan vi börjar att gå igenom hennes liv. Och det är Fadhil, Mari, Edward, Johannes, Marah, Daiana, Danela, Spyros, Silvia, Majid, Barbara och David . Tusen tack till er för att ni stödjer den här podden.   ..för att läsa hela transkriptet, klicka här

Yeah, hello, hello and welcome to Simple Swedish podcast. And today, we have a little historicist, we will talk about Drottning Kristina, a very fascinating personality from Sweden's history. So, a little short introduction just, Drotting christina, she was a a swenelytian who,

freely, valed to abdikera. To abdikera means that say, I will not be monarch longer,

I will not be a drotting, I will not be king, but I sayer me my crown and I am

troner, it is abdicate. And it's not so many who have done that through history. But she is one of few who have abdicarated free-willed. She cladded also

often in quite manly cladder, which was un-vanly and, for all, so,

she, she didn't gifting she. She wagered she and she to which was which was

in the in the time for Sweden was Protestantist and and in a crig

in a so we have a drottning that we have a drotting to to the endens religion. Fynden is, they are,

those you are most. So, yeah, a fascinerating personality in the first we

so we talk to many before we begin to go in his life and it

Fadhill Mari Edward, Johannes, Mara, Diana, Daniela, Spiros,

Silvia, Marjid, and David. Tusson thank you for that you stodger this podden. So, a little historic backrun, for we talk about 1600thal here. And on 1600thal

it was when Sweden was a so-called strong-mact. A strong-mact is a land that has a very much, much, much, much, has much to say to them. Today, can we say that U.S. are a strongmact and China, for example.

But, on 1600thal it, so, was Sweden actually very much as a land, and it was much on the 30-year-year-old-crigued. So the 30-year-year-old was a very, very, very, a very strong conflict in Europe. On 1600thal, one of the most military conflicts in Europe, through history. And it was Catholics against Protestants. And, Sweden was on Protestants' side

and the winning side, for Protestants' winnings, for the 30-year the 30-year and you can listen to the 227 if you will hear more on this period. Very interesting. And Kristina's father, also Kristina's papa, it was Gustav the other Adolf, one of Sweden's, maybe, maybe, and as said, protestantisman was

Sweden in this time. So, it was a little historic background. So we're going to go to Christina's upwaxed and her life. So she fuddleds 16266 in Stockholm. 1626. It is about 400 hundred since. And we have then, his father, Gustav, the other Adolf. He did very tidet. He did just six years after

that Christina fuddess. So when Christina was six years, then, then, then, she lost her father, and became drottning, because she was the only barnet, so she had no sister-on, and she then, became drottning, when she was just six years. So, a child can not, a land, can not, lead a land.

So, under her upwaxed, so, medan she was up, then, then, a so-called

ricks-cansler. And a ricks-cansler is, then person who can lead the land landet, while the d'rottning is,

not a little-old not-year-old to be able to be able to lead the land. So, we had an Rickskansler who had Axel-Oxen-Scherna. And Axel-Oxen-Sherna,

he is actually one of the the most people in swenks history and also an very interesting character so we can't have a own episode on him but he led the land it very effective meddain christina was minor-year-olding and christina They've got up, with his cousin, Carl Gustav. So these two, they've got up together, Christina and Carl Gustav, and they had a very good relation to one other.

And Axel Oxenshanna, he, you can say, he oversawed their upvicts, so he saw to that they've got a good education and that they would be, they'd, they'd, they'd, they'd, they'd, they'd, they'd learn to be, for to be, Drotting, Monarch, just, and, yeah, when Christina, then, yeah, when Christina, then She was 18 years, she was 18144. She was then, minding. She's being that you're a vuxen,

whole, so, juridist. And, Stiller, even today, will you, when you're 18 years in Sweden. So, she filled 18, and now

she then drottning, on really, can you say. So, Axel Oxenscherna had not the he had not he would,

certainly, but Christina was actually a very bestemed, and a very competent regent. A regent is a person, a person, a king or a drotting, can you can say,

who, can you say. So, she was a competent regent, competent monarch. She leds, the last years, in the 30-year-crigued, for the 30-year-criket, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it was still-hella-year-criegothed. She was, then, leda-swery in the last yearn. And it It was, it was in the winnings, Sweden,

and started to be more and more a more a strong-mact, and, and Kristina was a little-alundraget, a little different regent, a little different drotting. She, she said, she wagered to gifed. To wager doing something means that you say completely no to something. You say absolutely not. I vagran.

So, Christina, wagered, gifed, and it is, so-clart, a strong, on to give to give to when you are or king, for that you must you have an arving to give

the crown to when you so that it can be, so that it can be, so that the next person can regere, so it's very very important for

kings and drottninger to get arvings to tronen. An arvinge is, also, person who erver tronen. You say that tronen, or cronan, it goes in arve. Also, uh, kingen for a son. Yeah, sonen is king's arvinge, also arvinge to cronan. Yeah. But she will not give to gifed, uh, she can, she can, also, also, more manly style, clearly. It has speculated about her sexuality, maybe most in afterhand, but I don't know,

maybe then also. She had, it had got the rickton on that she had a very, that she had a very, that she had nearer with women, so, so, she's she's just a rebel, or she was homosexual, but she didn't give to get. And she was not gifed, and she was very builded also, so, builded, it means that

you have, you know, you, you know, you, you have studied, then you are builded. And she was very interested in philosophy, of of art, of wetsketsk, and such things. And she, yeah, she was a little of an intellectual, so. And she gillade to be with other intellectuals. intellectuals, she liked, she liked, she was, socialized with other intellectuals, so, that you spend time with other people.

And there is a, a very bizarre history, and that is related to philosopher René Descartes. So, René Descartes, is, or was, you, or was, one of the most the most the most people who's he was he

he was he came with this phrase cogito ergo sum also I think don't just I think

also are so I think all I know all know this this this is Jeanette who said it

and Christina She loved philosophy, and she had in Descartes to come to the slothet in Stockholm and give her lessons. Yeah, it's so that you can do if you are a drotting, you can just say, ring to, okay, on 1600th-talet could you couldn't, but, but to his idol and say, come here, and give me lectures. So,

that did her. And Descartes came to Stockholm. He, and, but Christina wille have the lectures very tidet on morning, and Descartes

gillade absolutely not to stig up on the morning. He was a a kveldsmanish. But kristina wanted to have lecioner and it was also very cold and fuktid on the slottet and it was not bequivant for this francemanen and this history slutarchist for just more months after that Descartes has come to Sweden, so, he's in lung inflammation.

So, on the ground of that Christina wanted to have these lections, and on of Sweden's, call, raw, climate, so, so, so, so, so, the, this, ...fellophon, which is a little bizarre history, can I think.

But, yeah, so, Christina, she was builded and gillade philosophy and and kind of, and so on, and she gillade, actually, not, to be a drottning. So, she knew that this is for much press, and not what I'm interested of. She wanted to do other things in his life. So, what did she? She abdicated, actually, just 10 years after, that she became drottning, or that she became minding and became drotting on.

Also, when she was 28 years, then abdiqued her, She said, she said, she said, she said, I'm going to resa, I'm going to resa. So she gave crowned to his cousin, Carl Gustav. It was the cousin, she had wuced up with. So he took crowned. He said, OK, thank so much. I'll take it, no problem

I can be king if you will out and resa instead So Christina she She said She cronan abdicarated And she

One A year So she raced She out In Europe And she She went to Rome

And room And room So you know Is you like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, and, you know, like, like, it had, like, been, like, a lot of, like, a lot, long, cry between, so, so, so, think, think they, like, that, ahah, our dredding,

she's, she's going to Fyendens land, and not just that, but she converterer to Catholicismen. So, she'll be Catholic, so many think that this is, then,

landfrewdery. And, yeah, to be a landsferreder. Yeah, it means, that you're a frayder to their land, that you're and that you're over to the enemy. But I think that Christina, just didn't bribed so much of

Catholic, Protestant. She would just live life, she wanted to hold on with with, with art, and culture, and philosophy and so on some of some of some, and it could be a more interesting place to be in Rome. And in room, so, she became her very warm, very warm, welcomeed, and, to-om-me-of-poven-shell. So, Poeven, she came and welcome-ed, Christina. Poven, it is the highest, among the Catholicians, it is poven.

And she lived, rest of his life in Rome. She flitted in on a palace at Piazza Farnese. I don't know what it is, but I have called up this. So, she'd she'd her at a palace at a place at a pietta Farnese. And, clearly, so was it very near a other, very-kend-svenged, no longer than Helia Birgitta. And Helia Birgitta is also a very interesting personality from a Swedish history. I can't I, maybe I, I'm a episode of Helia Birgitta also.

And then, after that, so, she flitted her to Palazzo Gorsini. And there bode she, till she do, 30 years later, so that she lived, the more than of his wuxner life in Rome, actually. And it finds, to me, a gata, where, uh, where, by Palazzo and Rosini, who is called Largo, Svetia, I don't, I don't what it means, but Christina of Sweden's Gata or something. So it's a little cool that it is there in Rome, and she is actually actually

in in peters' and peters' the is the this the the very kentda church in

Vatican and there there is poevar so that she has a very special

place for his grave also to be graven in peters church

And to be graven, is that, is, you, is, you, you know, a dead person in a grave. So, grave, it is where you can, yeah, for wile after you have dead. Then, then, be graven. And, uh, and person's grave, then, also. And Christina's grave is, then, in Peter.

Church in the Vaticanan. So it's a little bit from from from from the protestants' side to live as a sort of society person in Rome and be

be graven in Peter's Church. So, interesting, personality. And I hope that you have liked on this this is here, and yeah, so, we'll soon again, or see's.