A small full-length polychrome figurehead said to represent Maria Christina (1626-89) from a wooden schooner wrecked on Doom Bar, Padstow. The figurehead shows a woman with her left arm crossed over her chest holding a flower. She is dressed in a green bodice and yellow skirt with a red and gold sash and lavish jewellery, including gold/black bracelets on her wrists. The carving is painted with brown hair, tied as a bun at the back of her head and with some loose down her back. She is wearing green leaves and a red rose on her head. Debates focused on Christina’s gender from the day she was born: nurses attending her birth misidentified the infant as a boy. Raised as a prince, she was crowned King of Sweden. Christina eschewed femininity, dressing in masculine clothing. She refused to marry or produce an heir, but did, however, have a female lover, Ebba Sparre. Christina was portrayed by Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933), predominantly wearing male clothing. Queen Maria Christina was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1632 to 1654.