Every beehive has a single queen bee, and the queen in hive #1 is called Christina. She is named after Christina Rossetti, who was a nineteenth century poet and was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Christina Rossetti was born on 5 December 1830 in London. Her father Gabriele was a political exile from Abruzzo (now part of Italy). Her mother was Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron's friend and physician, John William Polidori. She had two brothers and a sister; her elder brother was the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Christina began writing poems in 1842, and later experimented with sonnets, hymns and ballads. She was 18 years old when her first two poems were published: "Death's Chill Between" and "Heart's Chill Between". In 1862 she published "Goblin Market and Other Poems", which was critically well-received and established Christina's reputation as a leading female poet. "Goblin Market" in particular has come to be one of her best known; it has been interpreted in a variety of ways and has attracted much attention from literary critics. Christina also wrote the words to the Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter".
She continued to publish throughout her life, including further collections of poems and short stories, and six volumes of devotional prose.
You can find out more about Christina Rosetti here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/christina-rossetti
Here is a photograph of her namesake, queen Christina:
