After her husband''s death, Hedwig ilionora thought she could calmly accept any fate imposed on her by God, but when she heard that Christina wanted her son to be king of Sweden, she stood up in shock.


    Her movements were so fast and unexpected that they almost hit each other''s heads.


    Christina took two steps back.


    Then a former queen and a queen looked at each other.


    Christina''s eyes were calm, and ilionora could not see any banter in them.


    "Is she really serious?" thought ilionora.


    But if this is true, if she doesn''t want to be the queen of Sweden again, why does she risk being assassinated and exiled against her husband?


    Let his son Carl become king, doesn''t it go back to the origin?


    After a while, ilionora asked suspiciously, "why?"


    Then she added confidently, "is it for Carl?"


    Of course, the Carl in ilionora''s mouth is not her own son, but her husband, the dead King Carl X of Sweden.


    Ilionora knows very well what kind of feelings her husband Carl had for Christina before he married himself, and Christina is also obsessed with Carl. And she also knew that Christina and Carl were secretly engaged in 1642.


    These are the feelings between the husband and wife became stronger after elionora gave birth to little Carl, and Carl opened his heart to tell her.


    Therefore, ilionora thought that Christina changed her mind because she cared about her past relationship with Carl X.


    After all, women are more emotional than rational animals.


    It seemed that irionora was right, and Christina showed a trace of memory.


    But ilionora guessed wrong. Christina''s memory is not the warmth between her and Carl, but the order that Carl gave to Wittenberg to kill herself in the war in Warsaw.


    Since then, her relationship with Carl has been broken.


    If possible, she would never support Carl and Heidrich elionora''s son to the top.


    But it''s not possible.


    There are three things that make Christina have to make Carl Xi king, and these three things go step by step. It finally became a dead knot.


    The first was the threat from Baron Carl Gustav franger. After Christina occupied Stockholm, this close friend of Carl x did not go to work or raise the flag of treason as ordinary people thought. Instead, he rode alone to Stockholm to express his loyalty to Christina.


    Loyalty is public, but in private, Baron Carl Gustav franger is still the Baron Carl Gustav franger who is loyal to Carl X. He went to Stockholm to see Christina because he had a secret weapon that could intimidate and threaten Christina.


    He wants to coerce Christina to give up the throne.


    This weapon is Christina''s faith.


    Few people in the outside world know that although Christina followed Lutheran''s Swedish church since childhood, she secretly converted to Roman Catholicism when she was young.


    In Sweden, as a secret Catholic, Christina has been working secretly to protect Catholicism.


    For example, her mentor Johannes Mathia goto proposed a new church order in 1644, but it was considered too Calvinist and opposed by the majority. At that time, Queen Christina was in power, and the queen defended him before justice uxenshena; In 1647, the priest wanted to implement the book of Concorde, which strictly defined Lutheran against heresy, which would seriously suppress the freedom of theological thought. Matia once again strongly opposed the implementation of the book, and Christina once again supported it.


    For another example, being a secret Catholic but governing a Protestant country once put Christina under great pressure. She asked the Privy Council to abdicate in August 1651, but was lobbied to remain in office. After that, Christina entrusted a Jesuit who was the interpreter of the Portuguese ambassador to secretly convey a letter to the Jesuit assembly in Rome for her. Later, the Jesuit sent two members, disguised as gentlemen and using pseudonyms, to Sweden to preach secretly. Christina talked with them in detail to relieve her depression.


    Of course, although few people in the outside world know Christina''s Catholic belief, there is no airtight wall in the world. Some of the great nobles and the Queen''s close friends are insiders, but the Queen''s "public opinion" foundation is solid - because she canonized 17 earls, 46 barons and 428 low-level nobles in 10 years, This makes the aristocracy in the kingdom of Sweden generally tend to Christina (for this reason, when Queen Christina announced her intention not to marry and made her cousin Carl the heir to the throne, the aristocracy opposed it, but the other three national grades - clergy, bourgeoisie and farmers agreed to accept it).


    Baron Carl Gustav franger wants to make it public that Christina is a Catholic. What the Baron said was made public to let the people of Sweden, including farmers, know about it.


    This is an unacceptable price for Christina, because it will cause a religious war in Sweden.


    At that time, Christina knew the serious damage caused to the Czech Republic and Germany by the HUS war and the 30-year war, which also broke out in the name of religion. She was unwilling to let Sweden die and lead to the intervention of foreign forces.


    Of course, for the threat of Baron Carl Gustav franger, Christina has another choice besides giving up the fruits of victory, that is, marriage.


    As long as Christina married a Protestant aristocrat and her heirs believed in Protestantism, most people in Sweden would still accept this result.


    This is the second thing that has no solution for Christina. Because after being betrayed by Carl x, Christina felt extremely disgusted with marriage. She vowed never to get married in Italy. If you don''t get married, you can''t have children without children, so it''s impossible for the heirs of the kingdom of Sweden to believe in state religion and Protestantism.


    At this time, another way is for Christina to adopt the children of other Protestant family members in the vasa family as her adopted son and make her king of Sweden. But Christina''s only uncle has been dead for many years, and there are only women in his family.


    At this point, little Carl became Christina''s only choice.


    In terms of blood relationship, Carl x is the son of John of Pfalz zweibruken and Princess Katarina of Sweden. He is the grandson of Carl IX; Hedwig elionora is a child of Christina''s grandmother''s family. Therefore, Carl Xi can be regarded as the closest person by blood.


    "Yes, I did it for Carl," Christina said.