For more than sixty years, Queen Hedvig Eleonora (1636-1715) was Sweden's most powerful woman. Her achievements are largely characterized by the dynastic and political ambitions of this period in European history. Her environments and court culture manifested the increasing power of the royal family, as well as Hedvig Eleonora's self-perception and strategies for dealing with the tension between power and gender. This visual rhetoric was addressed to her contemporaries, but also to posterity - Hedvig Eleonora has deliberately left a message for us today. The research on the queen of the realm connects to several current and vibrant fields of research, especially on the importance and conditions of princesses and northern European cultural relations. It also contributes to a deeper understanding of the Carolingian era as a whole, from a political, economic, intellectual, spiritual and artistic perspective. On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Queen Hedvig Eleonora's death in 2015, Kungl. Husgerådskammaren will draw attention to her great importance with, among other things, a publication. An important starting point is the contributions to the symposium A Queen Emerges. Hedwig Eleonora and Court Culture around the Baltic, which the Kungl. Several of the prominent Swedish and international baroque researchers who participated in the symposium will write contributions to the publication.