Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

History is littered with cases of royal offspring who ascend to the throne totally ill-prepared and personally unsuited for the role of monarch. Christina, briefly Queen of Sweden in the 17th Century, was one such whom fate dealt a very difficult hand. No one seemed to regard her as suited to the throne at all her father would far rather she had been born a boy, her mother rejected her as ugly and her councillors manipulated and conspired against her at every turn. Yet she was a woman of remarkable talents and strong will who was portrayed on film by the great Greta Garbo. Sadly, Veronica Buckley's efforts to uncover her life are undermined by poor writing and bad editing. She seems to have brought real energy to the research, but in telling the tale she loses her way.