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Mar 10, 2023 · In 1651, Queen Christina shocked her advisors by announcing her desire to give up the throne in favor of her cousin, Charles Gustavus. She claimed the nation and the army needed a man to lead them, according to History Today.
Mar 25, 2015 · Christina left Sweden and secretly converted to Catholicism in Brussels in December 1654. This was made public in November 1655. Christina died in Rome in 1689. Queen Christina was the only child of Gustavus. She was born in 1626 and became queen in 1632 when Sweden was actively engaged in the Thirty Years War.
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The Swedes insisted that the poles finally recognize Christina as the Queen of Sweden, and turn over Livoniato them. The Poles refused and the conference did not result in a permanent agreement. In 1651, Christine's vague desire to abdicate had crystallized into a definite intention, but was discouraged by the council.
Christina was therefore still unmarried when, in 1651, she told Parliament of her intention to abdicate. A collective cry of dismay from the Swedish statesmen delayed her, but in 1654 she renewed the project and this time carried it out, leaving Sweden permanently in June of that year, and traveling to the Spanish Netherlands.
But in Lutheran Sweden conversion to Catholicism was a crime and she would have to be prepared to renounce her throne if she wanted to become fully Catholic - which she did in August 1651. This happened in June 1654 and Charles succeeded her, becoming Charles X.
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With three hundred and seventeen soldiers and seven armed ships, Stuyvesant invaded New Sweden and took its forts one by one, ending with Fort Christina in September 1655. Stuyvesant’s capturing of Fort Christina marked the end of New Sweden and Swedish claims to the New World.(18)
