AHC: The Queendom of Sweden

............... Right, I read in a few fantasy books at my local library about nations where the Ruling Monarch is ALWAYS the Queen, thereby making the country a 'Queendom' rather than a Kingdom.

Your Challenge, if you're willing to accept it, is to make Sweden a Queendom as early as possible, and also make it a power that people listen to (not quite a super power like England or France... but still able to project some authority... Kinda like the Netherlands)

so the basics are kinda that National Law in Sweden states that the Ruling Monarch is the Queen... The King however can exert power over his Queen to, via her, rule the lands that National Law forbids him to... or something.
So is this possible? I don't know, its your challenge to make it possible and last for as long as possible as well.
-tries valiantly to dodge rotten vegetables and bricks-


(Note that while National Law says that its the Queen who rules, she rules in name only, since the world is such a chauvinistic place...)
 

Valdemar II

Banned
I would say that it's next to impossible with Sweden. The problem are that while a Queendom are possible, Germanic cultures are among the most unlikely to adopt it, and the Swedes was on this point one of the most conservatives. The original Germanic tradition of king are more a idea of a elected war leader rather than a heritable position, while this evolved into a heritable position, it did so as male position, which make the shift to a female position unlikely.
 
I would say that it's next to impossible with Sweden. The problem are that while a Queendom are possible, Germanic cultures are among the most unlikely to adopt it, and the Swedes was on this point one of the most conservatives. The original Germanic tradition of king are more a idea of a elected war leader rather than a heritable position, while this evolved into a heritable position, it did so as male position, which make the shift to a female position unlikely.

The Netherlands can only have reigning queens, right?;):D (Note-- while the current heir is male, he has 3 daughters & 0 sons.)
 
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