Christina, Queen of Sweden reigned from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. She is remembered as one of the most learned women of the 17th century. According to biographer Veronica Buckley, Christina was a "dabbler" who was "painted a lesbian, a prostitute, a hermaphrodite, and an atheist" by her contemporaries, though "in that tumultuous age, it is hard to determine which was the most damning label". Buckley suggested that her low comprehension of the need for most social norms, her lack of desire to act upon such norms and her preference to do only that which she deemed logically practical, point to her having a Pervasive Developmental Disorder such as Asperger's Syndrome.