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- Queen of Sweden 1632-54. Succeeding her
- father Gustavus Adolphus at the age of six,
- she assumed power 1644, but disagreed with
- the former regent Oxenstjerna. Refusing to
- marry, she eventually nominated her cousin
- Charles Gustavus (Charles X) as her
- successor. As a secret convert to Roman
- Catholicism, which was then illegal in
- Sweden, she had to abdicate 1654, and went to
- live in Rome, twice returning to Sweden
- unsuccessfully to claim the throne.
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