Ulrike Eleonora, Queen of Sweden | Letter signed as Regent for her brother Charles XII, 22 December 1713

Ulrika Eleonora (1688-1741), Queen of Sweden

Letter signed as Regent for her brother Charles XII

addressed to the master of the State Treasury, in Swedish, countersigned by eleven Swedish nobles, 2 pages, folio, integral address leaf, papered seals, Stockholm, 22 December 1713

Ulrike Eleonora was the sister of Charles XII, on whose death she acceded to the Swedish throne.  She was already Regent from 1713, with Charles in exile as a guest of the Ottomans, since his defeat by Peter the Great at Poltava in 1709.