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CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN—Margaret Goldsmith—Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo’s latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of ...

Christina was one of the feistiest queens that Europe ever produced. Now Veronica Buckley has produced a splendid account of her wild eccentricities, the fruit of 25 years of fascination with a woman ...

La Reine-garçon is based on the true story of Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), who was raised as a boy by her father, Gustavus Adolphus, and tutored by French philosopher René Descartes.