The new film The Girl King follows Christina’s life from her early years, and focuses mainly on the time following her coronation. Christina (played by relative newcomer Malin Buska) surprises her entirely male group of advisers by turning out to be much more independently minded than they expected. A Protestant country, Sweden had been embroiled in the Thirty Years’ War, a fight between Protestant and Catholic countries, which devastated much of Europe. One of Christina’s first acts was to bring peace and an end to the conflict, a decree that infuriated the Swedish army commanders. Christina also finds herself drawn to Catholicism, and philosophers like Descartes.
After growing up being told what to think and how to act, Christina finds it impossible to follow anyone’s rules once she takes the throne. She wears men’s clothing, and runs around sword fighting and riding horses. She also finds herself drawn to the fiancé of one of her noblemen, Countess Ebba Sparre (an enchanting Sarah Gadon). For Christina, it’s love at first sight and Ebba becomes one of her ladies in waiting, and royal “bed-fellow.”
The new film The Girl King follows Christina’s life from her early years, and focuses mainly on the time following her coronation. Christina (played by relative newcomer Malin Buska) surprises her entirely male group of advisers by turning out to be much more independently minded than they expected. A Protestant country, Sweden had been embroiled in the Thirty Years’ War, a fight between Protestant and Catholic countries, which devastated much of Europe. One of Christina’s first acts was to bring peace and an end to the conflict, a decree that infuriated the Swedish army commanders. Christina also finds herself drawn to Catholicism, and philosophers like Descartes.After growing up being told what to think and how to act, Christina finds it impossible to follow anyone’s rules once she takes the throne. She wears men’s clothing, and runs around sword fighting and riding horses. She also finds herself drawn to the fiancé of one of her noblemen, Countess Ebba Sparre (an enchanting Sarah Gadon). For Christina, it’s love at first sight and Ebba becomes one of her ladies in waiting, and royal “bed-fellow.”
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