The aim of this project is to produce a critical edition of the correspondence between Queen Victoria of Sweden (1862-1930) and the Bishop and High Preacher to the Court, Gottfrid Billing (1841-1925), together with a commentary situating this surprisingly straightforward correspondence in its political and theological context. Special observance will be paid to the correspondents' relative positions from the perspectives of gender and relations. This correspondence is of great interest from a politico-historical point of view, and also theologically. The theological interest is to be seen, partly in several separate matters, and partly in both correspondents' motivations in terms of Lutheran vocational teaching, the latter of which can be seen as motivating even the independent political actions of the Queen. The letters also reveal a relation of pastoral care that, at the end of the old Bishop's life, is reversed, with the Queen providing spiritual solace to the Bishop. The edition will include a broad, historical introduction and a page by page commentary.