DBWI: Christina of Sweden doesn't get deposed

What if Christina hadn't gotten deposed before giving birth to her and Frederick William's only surviving son?

What would've been the consequences of a lasting personal union between Sweden and Brandenburg?
 
She was deposed because the Swedish peasants were not too keen on Fredrik William allying with the Swedish nobility and moving towards serfdom in Sweden. The free land-holding peasants held about 1/3 of the land at this time and was a serious power factor. Gustav II Adolf did well in allying with the peasants in the Riksdag to limit the power of the nobles.

It was bad enough that Axel Oxenstierna advanced noble rights and Christina spent madly at culture and court while the nation was dragged into war after war, but Fredrik William's ambitions, using Swedish armies against Saxony and his insistance on not talking to the representatives of the peasants, and the constant rumours of him trying to push through serfdom made things explode.

I still think that Gustaf Gustafsson av Vasaborg was a good candidate for the throne. The priest and peasants elected him King, a throwback to 1521 when the nobility was mostly out running for their lives or with the armies in Brandenburg. While bastard son of a son of an usurpator as King pretty much destroyed any diplomatic influence Sweden had in Europe, I think that avoided Sweden being dragged into various continental wars. And his son, Gustav IV Adolf, was a great King, conquering Norway, reducing Denmark to Jutland and the closest islands, crushing August the Strong at Riga, putting Peter in his place in backwards Russia and reigning the resurgent nobility in hard.

I think his insistence on not involving Sweden in the War of Spanish Succession influenced his son Georg Is neutrality declaration in the Seven Year's War and the continued neutrality Sweden has enjoyed since then.
 
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