Sons and Heirs

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Stabilizing a ‘Great Historic System’ in the Nineteenth Century? Royal Heirs and Succession in an Age of Monarchy

   1. Stabilizing a ‘Great Historic System’ in the Nineteenth Century? Royal Heirs and Succession in an Age of Monarchy

      • Frank Lorenz Müller

      Pages 1-16

3. Dynasties as Royal Families

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Fathers and Sons in the History of the Hohenzollern Dynasty

      • Christopher Clark

      Pages 19-37

   3. Heirs and Their Wives: Setting the Scene for Umbertian Italy

      • Axel Körner

      Pages 38-52

   4. Heirs before the Altar: Hohenzollern Marriages in a Bourgeois Age

      • Daniel Schönpflug

      Pages 53-71

4. Courtly Contexts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Education and the Rituals of Monarchy in the Kingdom of Württemberg: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince Karl and Prince Wilhelm Compared

      • Eberhard Fritz

      Pages 75-91

   3. Travels with a Camera: The Prince of Wales, Photography and the Mobile Court

      • Sophie Gordon

      Pages 92-108

   4. The Spatial and Architectural Presence of Heirs to the Throne: The Apartments of the Habsburg Crown Princes in the Viennese Hofburg in the Long Nineteenth Century

      • Richard Kurdiovsky

      Pages 109-126

5. Overcoming Succession Crises

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Domesticating a German Heir to the Danish Throne

      • Jes Fabricius Møller

      Pages 129-146

   3. The Succession of an Unborn King: Constitutional Politics in Spain after the Death of Alfonso XII

      • Carmina López Sánchez

      Pages 147-159

   4. An Italian Heir for the New Century: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples

      • Valentina Villa

      Pages 160-175

6. The Impact of Dynastic Deaths

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. 1834–1869–1891: The Untimely Deaths of Three Heirs to the Belgian Throne

      • Christoph De Spiegeleer

      Pages 179-195

   3. The Impossible Task of Replacing a Model Heir: The Death of Ferdinand-Philippe d’Orléans and the ‘New France’

      • Heidi Mehrkens

      Pages 196-210

   4. The Opposition of the Archdukes: Rudolf, Franz Ferdinand and the late Habsburg Monarchy

      • Günther Kronenbitter

      Pages 211-225

7. Heirs in the Great War

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. A Prince in the Trenches? Edward VIII and the First World War

      • Heather Jones

      Pages 229-246

Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.   

• Monarchy
• World War I
• Political Culture
• European History
• conflict
• constitution
• Europe
• European history
• Familie
• France
• Germany
• Habsburg monarchy
• history
• kingdom
• monarchy
• Spain

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Frank Lorenz Müller, Heidi Mehrkens

Lothar Machtan, University of Bremen, Germany Katharine Anne Lerman, London Metropolitan University, UK Heather Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Günther Kronenbitter, University of Augsburg, Germany Christoph de Spiegeleer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Valentina Villa, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Carmina López Sánchez, Carlos III University, Spain Jes Fabricius Møller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Richard Kurdiovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Sophie Gordon, Royal Collection Trust, UK Eberhard Fritz, Altshausen Castle Archives, Germany Daniel Schönpflug, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany Axel Körner, University College London, UK Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge, UK  

Policies and ethics