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Within six months of their marriage, Gustavus Adolphus left to command the siege of Riga, leaving Maria Eleonora in the early stages of her first pregnancy.
She lived exclusively in the company of her German ladies-in-waiting and had difficulty in adapting herself to the Swedish people, countryside and climate.
She disliked the bad roads, sombre forests and wooded houses, roofed with turf.
She also pined for her husband.
A year after their wedding she had a miscarriage and became seriously ill. She was tempestuous, excessive, neurotic and jealous.
She was often given to harsh language, and she did not spare her husband, even when strangers were present.
Her emotional life lacked balance, and everything Maria Eleonora undertook on her own initiative needed careful watching.
Soon Gustavus Adolphus ' intimates knew that his married life was a source of grief and anxiety.
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