Antonio Pimentel de Prado

Antonio Pimentel de Prado y lo Bianco (Palermo, 1604 - Antwerp (c. 1671-72) was a Spanish officer, a governor of Nieuwpoort (1646–1651), ambassador in Stockholm (1652–1654), Knight of the Order of Santiago (1658),[3] representative in Paris (1659), governor of Cadiz (1660–1670), and at the end of his life counsel and chief of the army in Antwerp (1670–1672).

His father Lorenzo Pimentel de Prado served at the court of the Duke of Bivona in Palermo and had three sons: Juan, Antonio and Gregorio.

His nephew Bernardino de Rebolledo appointed Antonio Pimentel del Prado as the Spanish ambassador in Sweden.

Christina of Sweden, began negotiations with Philip IV of Spain in 1651 and had the Swedish diplomat Matthias Palbitzki sent to the Spanish court.

Philip IV, who was looking for good relations, had ordered the Spanish diplomacy to promote Swedish interests anywhere in Europe.

Christina continued her friendship with Pimentel, partly because she wanted to mediate between France and Spain who were involved in the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659).

In the movie the queen, dressed like a man, is slumming anonymously around the winter countryside on horseback and teases Antonio and his small retinue (not including wife and children) for getting his coach stuck in a deep, snow-covered rut in the road.