reason to deny the request. In her room, she reveals to Antonio that she is a woman, but not that she is a queen, and they spend the night together. Their tryst is extended by a few days when they become snowbound at the inn. When the time comes for Christina and Antonio to part, Christina assures Antonio that they will reunite in Stockholm. To his surprise, this occurs when the Spaniard is presented to the Queen, whom he recognizes as his lover. Antonio is initially somewhat hurt and annoyed because he thinks Christina has played a trick on him and compromised his loyalty to the King of Spain, who sent Antonio on this mission to Sweden to present Christina with an offer of marriage on his behalf. She makes it clear that her feelings for Antonio are genuine and that she regularly receives such offers from foreign royalty and has no intention of accepting the King's proposal, and she and Antonio patch things up. When the scheming Count Magnus (Ian Keith), who had previously had some romantic liaisons with the Queen, rouses the people against the Spaniard, Christina is able to ease tensions for a time, but ultimately, she decides to name Karl Gustav as her successor and, in a move that shocks the entire court, abdicates the throne to be with Antonio. When she gets to the boat that is to take Antonio and her to Spain, she finds him gravely wounded from a sword duel with Magnus, which he lost. Antonio dies in her arms, but Christina resolves to proceed with the voyage. She envisions residing in the home Antonio described to her as sitting on white cliffs overlooking the sea. Cast Greta Garbo as Christina, Queen of Sweden John Gilbert as Antonio Pimentel de Prado Ian Keith as Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie Lewis Stone as Axel Oxenstierna Elizabeth Young as Countess Ebba Sparre C. Aubrey Smith as Aage Reginald Owen as Charles X Gustav of Sweden Georges Renavent as Chanut, the French Ambassador David Torrence as Archbishop Gustav von Seyffertitz as General Ferdinand Munier as Innkeeper Uncredited Cast Cora Sue Collins as Christina as a Child C. Montague Shaw as King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden Akim Tamiroff as Pedro Barbara Barondess as Elsa Tiny Sandford as Cook at the Inn Bodil Rosing as Innkeeper's Wife Muriel Evans as Barmaid at the Inn Edward Gargan