A bracelet at the permanent exhibition of the Royal Armoury:
Today's date: July 16, 1636, Princess Anna Vasa was buried in St. Mary's Church in the Polish city of Toruń.
Anna lived 1568–1625 and her parents were King Johan III and Katarina Jagellonica. She was well-educated and spoke five languages. When her brother Sigismund became king in Poland she followed him as an advisor. In the 1590s she returned to Sweden to drive his case in the power struggle against his uncle Karl. Karl called her angry as Sigismund's "poisonous sister".
After Sigismund was set aside from the Swedish throne Anna returned to Catholic Poland and created there, among other things, a refuge for
Swedish and Polish Protestants refugees. When she died in 1625, Sigismund wanted to bury his sister in the polish Coronation and funeral church in Kraków. Since Anna was the Protestant, permission was required from the Pope to be able to bury her in a Catholic Church. The Pope refused to give his approval and it was 11 years before she was finally buried in a Protestant church in Toruń.
The gold bracelet with the initials A P S (Anna Principessa Sveciae = Anna, Swedish Princess) is one of the few links to the Vasa princesses.
Anna Vasa, the princess who once carried it, is forgotten in Sweden. In Poland she is remembered as Anna Wazówna as a statue in the town of Brodnica, in front of the castle she once lived on.
Another photo of the bracelet
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