The document summarizes information about several historical monarchs from different eras and locations. It discusses Christina of Sweden's interests in philosophy and religion and her later conversion to Catholicism. It describes Louis XIII of France sacrificing his mother Marie de' Medicis to maintain power. It mentions Leopold II of Belgium's exploitation of resources in the Congo and the violence inflicted on local populations. It also briefly outlines several other monarchs including Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary, Marie Tudor of England, Louis XVII of France, and Vlad Tepes of Wallachia known as Vlad the Impaler.

1. The era of kings and
queens

2. CHRISTINA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN
• Christina was moody, intelligent,
and interested in books and
manuscripts, religion, alchemy,
and science, she born in
stockholm 1626, her father was
Gutstavus Adolphus of Sweden.
• Her peculiarity was, that as a man
riding a horse, swore like a
trooper and study philosophy,
considered a tomboy fun.
• in 1654 he became Catholic, he
went to Rome dressed as a man.

3. LOUIS XIII OF FRANCE AND MARIE DE'
MEDICIS
• known as "the Desired" (le Désiré)
• In September 1630, the Queen Mother took
the serious illness that almost ended his life
to claim the head of her enemie ,Cardinal
Richelieu. The Queen hated the friendship
between his son and Richelieu, so she ask to
Louis how to kill Richelieu.
• the queen asked the king, pale and
speechless: Do you want ME or your friend
Richelieu?
• That same afternoon, the king summoned
the cardinal to Versailles. After two hours
of private conversation, he decided to
sacrifice his mother.
• So, Marie was ordered to leave Paris and
move to Compiègne: Louis XIII did not see
her again. When he was gone, exiled, she
decided to continue plotting conspiracies
against his son.

4. LEOPOLD II OF BELGIUM
• The history of the exploitation of
the resources of the Congo while
it was owned by Leopold II, is
one of the bloodiest stories of
contemporary history.
• Was dictating the rules that
Congolese peoples expropriated
all lands and resources and
incited his private army, the
security forces, to use all kinds
of torture, kidnapping and
murder to subdue the population
forced labor that , in a very short
period of time, he became one of
the richest men in the world.

5. ELIZABETH BÁTHORY
• The madness and sadism of Elizabeth,
unleashed a very wild life. The story says,
that Elizabeth was countess of hungary, and
she was obseced with eternal youth.
• One day, her maid pulled her hair too and
Elizabeth slapped so hard that the poor girl
bleed, the blood fell on his hand, which
began to feel more clear and smooth
• In the mind of Elizabeth became the grim
words of her nanny : “the blood is the way to
get eternal youth”
• and she did not hesitate to kill the clumsy
maid and prepare a batht with her blood .
• That would be the first of a long list of
murders to stock enough blood to give
eternal youth. In his paranoid lunacy was
not satisfied, she didn’t want rubbing with
towels, because that reduce the effect of the
blood, so she forced other maids to lick her
body

6. MARIE TUDOR (BLOODY MARIE)
• She was the heiress of the Tudor
dinasty, she born in 1516, also known
as «Bloody Marie» because she
ordered to execute many cardenals
and member of the real court and many
subdits more, because they were
against the catholic religion imposed
by her father Henry VIII.
• Curiously, she was one of the few
queens who had many nobiliary titles
for their marriage whit Felipe II of Spain
«Felibe and Marie, for the grace of
god, King and Queen of England,
Spain, Napoles Jerusalem and Ireland,
defenders of the faith, princes of Spain
and Silicia, Archduke of Austria, Dukes
of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant,
Counts of Habsburg, Flandes and
Tirol»

7. LOUIS XVII ( THE STOLEN SUN)
• The dolphin of france, son of Loouis XVI
and Marie Antoinette, this little kid lived
until 10 years old. When the French
Revolution started and the real family
were captured, Louis were taken of his
mother arms and submitted to spend time
in prision.
• The story tells that he were forced to
speak in public against his mother, Marie
Antoinette, saying that she and the
countess of Polignac maintained sexual
relations with him. And also he were
forced to sing hymns of the French
Revolution.
• After that, little louis were abused, beated
and mistreated.
• No one knows exaclty what happened to
the little sun. Some people say that a
shoemaker adopted him, but others tells
he died in prision by a very hard sickness

8. VLAD TEPES (VLAD DRACULEA)
• Vlad III Țepeș became famous as a
tyrant taking sadistic pleasure in
torturing and killing .
• Supposedly, between 40,000 and
100,000 people died in this way, or
through other methods of torture,
by the hands of men of the Impaler,
during the seven year s duration of
the successive reigns: enemies,
traitors, criminals of all kinds. Vlad
hated more than anything, theft,
lying, adultery, and not forgive
anyone for their rank, indeed, the
higher the rank of the traitor, was
the punishment harder.
• The ireland writer Bram Stoker,
took the story of this prince for write
his famous novel “Dracula”