Page "Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg" Paragraph 9

Gustavus Adolphus shared Maria Eleonora's interest in architecture and her love of music, while she was sentimentally devoted to her husband.

Often, she lamented that she never had her hero for herself.

Foreign ambassadors found her gracious and beautiful and she had good taste, although her character showed some extravagant traits.

Maria Eleonora had a definite liking for entertainment and sweetmeats, and she soon succumbed to the current fashionable craze for buffoons and dwarfs.

She spoke French, the court language of the age, but never bothered to learn to write German or Swedish correctly.