This article aims at demonstrating that gender and sovereignty were closely entangled in satirical portraits published within French pamphlets after Queen Christina’s abdication (1654). These portraits show how political was Christina’s natural body. Indeed, the descriptions of Christina’s body and her gender ambiguities are the main issue of these writings. Yet, the criticism regarding Christina’s physical ambiguities developed as a result of her abdication. I argue that her abdication – and the loss of her sovereign authority – disrupted a previous balance: as a queen regnant her gender ambiguities were acceptable and Christina was defined in a “third gender” that of sovereignty, whereas after her abdication this political gender could not exist anymore and required a new definition according to her new political and social status. Thus, Christina’s body became, in these portraits, the place of such an exploration and definition of her new political identity.Therefore, not only were Christina’s gender and body a political category, but also a flexible tool for her contemporaries to express uncertainties as regards Christina’s position in political Europe.