Christina of Sweden Part 2: To Rome With Love | 43

Even The Royals

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.4 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In part one, Christina rejected gender norms and was raised as a prince in order to prepare for the throne. But parting with tradition eventually meant parting with her crown. So Christina bids goodbye to Sweden and heads off to a new, exciting life in Rome. But life without a crown will turn out to be a lot tougher than she imagined. Eventually, she decides her only option is to find a new one – no matter the cost.

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0:00.0	Wonderie Plus subscribers can listen to Even the Royals early and ad-free right now.
0:04.1	Join Wonderly Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.1	A quick note about our show.
0:10.1	We do a lot of research for our stories, but we also aren't your high school history class,
0:14.1	so some details and scenes are dramatized.
0:16.9	And a royal heads up, in today's episode, we're going full Christina,
0:20.8	so our language make it a little unladylike.
0:30.8	It's late spring, 1652 in Stockholm, and the frozen fields around Trey Kroner Castle are just starting to thaw.
0:38.8	25-year-old Christina of Sweden is marching toward her study.
0:42.7	She's just under five feet tall, but she walks with the swagger of a pro basketball player.
0:47.6	How did I not know she was so short?
0:49.3	She's a fellow short girlie.
0:50.7	She's not even five feet.
0:52.3	Yeah, she's little, which makes this funny. Yeah.
0:55.2	You know, that she's such a badass. Yeah. But today, her confidence is purely an act.
1:01.3	Christina's mind is racing. She's about to have a conversation that could change the entire
1:05.9	course of her life. When she arrives at her study, two wealthy Italian noblemen are waiting for her.
1:12.3	They've been visiting her rooms regularly to talk about art and culture. At least that's what
1:17.1	they're telling everybody. The men are actually Jesuit priests, and they're here to educate
1:22.8	Christina on Catholicism. But they have to keep it on the DL because Sweden is a Lutheran country and
1:29.2	Catholicism is illegal. The priests visit Christina at the castle a few times a week to teach her
1:35.0	about things like the difference between good and evil and the immortality of the soul. She loves
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