Re: "Christina Queen of Sweden" The Restless life of a European Eccentric Archived Message
Posted by TMN Raugravine  on January 22, 2012, 10:17 am, in reply to "Re: "Christina Queen of Sweden" The Restless life of a European Eccentric"
Oh my heavens!!!! That looks almost exactly like what she is wearing! I know she wore her mother's crown for her coronation but this looks very much like what she wore. I have seen the style seen on subsequent rulers of Sweden.
Thank you so much.
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: perhaps she was a woman out of her times.
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: I find that many of her portraits as a young
: woman show her wearing a tiara/diadem. The
: earliest portrait is by an unknown artist
: when she was 5 years old. I am sorry if I
: offend but she was quite homely in this
: portrait. The tiara/crown is quite apparent.
: I wonder if it is to indicate her status as
: queen and was there a specific small crown
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: This portrait is from the Indiana Public
: Media Org. and is by
: By BERNARD GORDILLO
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