The Queens of Sweden
Season 1
20208 episodes
Here we follow the lives of some of Sweden's most fascinating queens. Among period costumes and fantastic environments, the actress Sofia Helin leads us through history and meets powerful women who have been involved in shaping our time.
Episodes
E1The Queen from the Street
5.02020-10-15 · 44m
Series start. Karin Månsdotter (1550-1612) began her life as an orphaned and hard-working girl. When King Erik XIV meets her, he falls instantly in love and Karin has no choice but to marry him. Suddenly she is surrounded by enemies.
E2The queen who could do as she pleased
5.02020-10-22 · 44m
Kristina (1626-1689) becomes queen when her father falls during the battle of Lützen. Queen Kristina loves power but suddenly abdicates and moves to Rome. When she also converts to Catholicism, the scandal is a fact.
E3The Queen of the Great Power Sweden
5.02020-10-29 · 44m
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp (1636-1715) comes from a family of 15 siblings and grows up to be a strategic power player in power for almost 60 years. She has great influence over both her husband Karl X Gustav and future kings.
E4The Queen Who Wanted to Be at the Center
5.02020-11-05 · 44m
This time it is about the queen who secretly sells the Swedish state's diamonds in order to carry out a coup. Lovisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720-1782) is well educated and hyperintelligent. But when King Adolf Fredrik dies, everything changes.
E5The Involuntary Queen
5.02020-11-12 · 44m
Fredrika av Baden (1781-1826) is only a child when she marries Gustav IV Adolf who loses Finland in the war against Russia. The royal couple are deposed and the divorce a few years later is the only royal ever. The traces of them are deleted. All but one.
E6The Reluctant Queen
5.02020-11-19 · 44m
The world-famous and lively Désirée (1777-1860) is engaged to Napoleon Bonaparte but soon becomes Sweden's first Bernadotte queen. The meager life at the court in Stockholm, however, makes Désirée bored and she moves back to Paris.
E7The Queen Who Wanted to Be Loved
5.02020-11-26 · 44m
The shy princess Louise of the Netherlands (1828-1871) marries the widower Charles XV. Louise struggles to fit into the role of queen. But her life is fraught with personal tragedies and the love for the king remains unanswered.
E8The Queen Who Lived a Double Life
5.02020-12-03 · 44m
Last part. At a time when the royal family is having less and less to say about, Victoria of Baden (1862-1930) becomes queen. She is super talented and strong-willed with Vasa blood in her veins. But her health is weak and her marriage to Gustav V is complicated.