Crowns and colonies: European monarchies and overseas empires

Front Matter\nContents\nList of figures\nList of contributors\nAcknowledgements\nEuropean sovereigns and their empires ‘beyond the seas’\nThe British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George\nTwo Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867–68\nKaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa\nOrangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen’s supporters in a British South Africa\nSultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch\nThe return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon\nKingitanga and Crown: New Zealand’s Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy\nThe Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian Independence\nColonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien régime\nNapoleon III and France’s colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852–70\nThe British, the Hashemites and monarchies in the Middle East\nAn empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies\n‘So brave Etruria grew’: dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808–10\nA new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India\nWaiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991–2016\nIndex