#130 KCW - Kobiety rządzą. Nad Wisłę jechała nie po miłość, a po koronę

"And this is supposed to be this magnificent beauty?" the king said, seeing his 34-year-old fiancée kneeling before him and kissing his hand. Could she have suspected that the Polish king, Władysław IV, the monstrously obese and bisexual, was such a simpleton? Could she have predicted that her second Polish royal husband, John II Casimir, with whom she had fallen in love back in Paris, when he was released from prison… well… in the fur coat he gave her, she found a note with the name of his mistress! One of many! But Marie Louise Gonzaga de Nevers traveled to the Vistula not for love, but for the crown. Would anyone have imagined that she would be the one commanding a military battery during the Battle of Warsaw against the Swedes in July 1656? And that she, a woman, would be working in May 1660 to negotiate the terms of the Treaty of Oliwa, which ended the Swedish Deluge? My guest is Anna Katarzyna Czarniecka, PhD in Humanities, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, Department of Modern History, specializing in political culture and propaganda of power in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. I am collaborating with Wojciech Ciarka, Polish Radio. Dear listeners and friends of the Club of Curious Everything, I invite you to listen to podcast number 130—the 33rd in the "Women Rule" series—which I am able to produce thanks to your support, meaning donations of any amount to the patronite.pl/klcw account. Finally, I would like to thank the most generous donors individually. You are welcome - Hanna Maria Giza