#Ebba Sparre

[precodesoul]

Queen Christina of Sweden and her Lady-In-Waiting Ebba Sparre

"Most of Christina's free time was spent in the company of Ebba Larsdotter Sparre, nicknamed by the queen herself as 'la belle comtesse', and she often drew attention to her friend's beauty. She introduced her to the English ambassador Whitelocke as his bedmate, claiming that Sparre's intellect was as extraordinary as the beauty of her body. When Christina left Sweden she continued writing passionate love letters to Sparre, telling her that she would always be her lover."

[kathrynhoward]

SARAH GADON as COUNTESS EBBA SPARRE THE GIRL KING (2015)

[makingqueerhistory]

Queer history fact: Ordinari Post Tijdender ("Regular Mail Times"), founded in 1645 continues today as the world's longest-running newspaper and was started by Kristina King of Sweden.

King Kristina was initially assigned male at birth though this was amended to female a couple of days later. They had a female lover named Ebba Sparre, and for a period of their life, they went under the name Kristine Alexandre. Unquestionably queer, the possible modern labels they may have fallen under include demisexual, lesbian, transgender, nonbinary, and intersex!

[dameaylins]

Sarah Gadon as Countess Ebba Sparre in The Girl King (2015)

[karkkidoesartsandcrafts]

Conveniently before the pride month I got commissioned to draw Queen Christina of Sweden and her long time lover Ebba Sparre by @luanna801 !

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[idkwhatimdoinok]

Gosh, this is the first time I tried making a Queen in the style of SIX the Musical.

It was really fun delving into this Queen's history as it's so interesting! Apparently she was given the title of King at her coronation and is known to be in love with her lady in waiting Ebba Sparre!

I tried using multiple references from the musical, specifically with Parr and Cleves' outfits, and with her portrait.

Idk if I should do more but let me know if you'd like me to do other Queens in history in SIX style! :)

[kassy-munson]

‘‘How happy I should be if only I could see you, Beautiful One. But I am condemned by Destiny to love and cherish you always without seeing you; and […] I cannot be completely happy when I am separated from you. Never doubt this fact, and believe that, wherever I may be, I shall always be entirely devoted to you, as I always have been. […] Good-bye, Beautiful One, good-bye. I embrace you a million times.’’

(Queen Christina of Sweden to Ebba Sparre, 1656)

[celluloidrainbow]

THE GIRL KING (2015) dir. Mika Kaurismäki Crowned Queen at the age of six, Kristina of Sweden was thrust into a labyrinth of power and tradition, where a court of austere, Lutheran men pressure her to marry and produce an heir to fulfill her destiny. She finds sanctuary and love with her lady-in-waiting, the beautiful and elegant, countess Ebba Sparre, although the Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna, pressures her to pair with his son, Johan. Soon the forces around the Queen realize that Ebba is the key to controlling her, but they underestimate Kristina's brilliant mind and her drive to be free. (link in title)

[xian-moriarty]

Jour 09.

Kristina Alexandra Vasa, Reine de Suède.

La vie de la Reine Christine est un roman. Élevée comme un garçon, elle aura aussi bien des amants que des amantes (Ebba Sparre pour n’en citer qu’une)

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[falsebooles123]

Ugh I'm late again - Diary of a Big Ole Gay 02/06/2023

Hey Whores sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I am one tardy ass whore lately, sorry about that.

(me casually forgetting what I'm doing on this app all the time)

so I it the I guess only 6 days since my last review huh I managed to set up a parttime gig with a local eatery so bitch your whores job search is over!!!!

(me when they ask me why I want to work for them)

on that note I have been very lazy this week. Also I have come down with a head cold which is very gross and has left me tired during my screduled "watching a movie because it gives me seratonin" hours.

So I have taken a couple days off this week but I still managed to watch a few, courtesy of Internet Archive. They pages don't always index in the search engine but I was able to 5 (additional) films on there. (for you queer cinema sluts Queen Christina, I was a Male War Bride, Olivia, The Strange ONe, Tea and Sympathy, and Reflections in a Golden Eye.), which is great because I have no budget for this project and that saved me 25 bucks. The only bad news this week is that HBO MAX no longer carries Cat People (1942). SAD

Draculas Daughter (1936) dir. Lambert Hillyer

Draculas Daughter is the sequel to the classic Universal Picture Dracula (1931), (yes I have seen the original), based on a short story excised from the original Bram Stroker Novel. That is that it is only tangentently related to said short story and the whole production rights is due to a lot of really boring behind the scenes drama. You get it its hollywood it has to be tied to some kind of IP.

In this one Dracula has a daughter who doesn't want to be a vamp and is fighting her vampiric origins going to the point of calling up a psychoanaylsist to cure her of her urges. Oh by the way this is protrayed onscreen is her ravising a young damsel with her titties out.

So yeah vampirism in this film is like totally not a metaphor for being a lesbian, HAES PRUDES, (wink).

Supposedly, the queer overtones were toned down in the final project but you still have what is objectable a pretty queer character and even the marketing plays into it, (she gives you that weird feeling).

Now this film while interesting is rather slow so this is definetly only for the serious lesbian vampire lover, for those more casual into the scene may I recommend its unofficial remake, Nadja (1994). Oh which we must always stan and simp for.

Queen Christina (1933) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

Queen Christina is a historical drama based on the biography of Queen Christina of Sweedan. so lets talk about her for a sec.

Chrisitina of Swedan was a monarch from 1626 - 1689, in which she abdicated her throne for a variety of reasons, including the fact that she had converted to catholicism. She was raised, "as a boy", in the sense that her father gave her a education and allow her to persue masculine persuits. She was well known for dressing in a masculine fashion which rose to rumors that she was either a lesbian or intersex. Oh wait theres a great quote for this.

 According to Veronica Buckley, Christina was a "dabbler" who was "painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite, and an atheist" by her contemporaries, though "in that tumultuous age, it is hard to determine which was the most damning label".

The rumors of her being intersex seems to be unsubstantiated and it should be noted that when you look at a lot of historical gender varient people theres a lot of push to find a biological essentialist view on why. Famous Trans people like Lily Elbe and Christina Jorgensine had intersex qualities so people try to find out if some random butch dyke from the 17th century had overian cysts because thats clearly the only reason why a woman would like to wear pants.

However there is a lot stronger evidence that she liked to eat that kitty. Pictured above is a fictional version of Ebba Sparre who she has a sort of Rosalind relationship with. Its intimate but like they totally just friends. In real life its very likely that they were lesbain lovers.

The actually film itself keeps the butch elements of Queen Christina life but gives both of these women a nice little heterosexual romance. I feel that the strength of the film comes from Greta Garbos performance, she was a WLW and she has this type of Glamour.

Like Dietrich she plays this sexual vivacious almost femme tops. Its very bisexual, very commanding, and there is something just scruptious of all these butch dykes in 30s films. They were like we want woman wearing pants, we want mommy to step on us.

What I'm saying is that Cate Blanchette in Nightmare Alley is historcial accurate.

Orpheus (1950) dir. Jean Cocteau

This is the second film in the Ophic Trilogy by Jean Cocteau. The whole thing is a bunch of abstract experimental films playing around with these notions of the artist and more specifically the myths of Orpheus (duh) and Narcissis, (thats where all the mirror stuff comes in).

There are a lot better and more thourough essays on the topic but essentially the versions he uses are kinda gay Cocteau is super gay and its just him being a little gay having fun and having a blonde twink simp for a butch dommy mommy.

its not the most explicet gay film like Un chant d'amour but as an arthouse film its actually pretty cool. I would recommend you check it out.

Everything Else I Watched

So It turns out not much. I watched the Bowery (1994) by Sara Driver. It was a 10 minute experimental doc that she shot about the Bowery Street in New York. It is very cool and very fun to watch its on Le Cinema Club at the time of writing.

I also watched two random silent comedies that were on my watchlist but I was very drunk when I watched them so I don't remember much.

[gifshistorical]

That was better. THE GIRL KING (2015)

[kathrynhoward]

THE GIRL KING (2015)

[womenendure]

SARAH GADON AS EBBA SPARRE IN THE GIRL KING 2015

[periodcostumefantasylover]

Countess Ebba Sparres blue gown in The Girl KIng

[royal-diaries-podcast]

Portrait of Countess Ebba Sparre, 1652/1653 by Sébastien Bourdon

Portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden, circa 1652 by Sébastien Bourdon.

Ebba Larsdotter Sparre (1629 – 19 March 1662) was a Swedish lady-in-waiting and noblewoman. Her intimate relationship with Queen Christina gave rise to the speculation that they were lovers. This has never been confirmed.

However, she did belong to the few women Queen Christina showed an interest in during her life in Sweden. Christina did not show any interest in her female courtiers, and generally mentions them only to express contempt over their femininity and portray herself as more masculine than them.

Most of Christina's spare time was spent with "la belle comtesse", and she often called attention to her beauty.

Ebba was engaged to Bengt Gabrielsson Oxenstierna but broke the engagement to marry Count Jakob Kasimir de la Gardie, younger brother of the queen's favourite Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie, on the initiative of Christina. They married in 1652. The marriage was unhappy.

When Christina left Sweden she continued to write passionate love-letters to Sparre, in which she told her that she would always love her.

In 1661, Christina invited Sparre to visit her in Hamburg, and she also wished to see her during her visit to Sweden in 1660, but this was prevented.