Sons and Heirs: Succession and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Stabilizing a ‘Great Historic System’ in the Nineteenth Century? Royal Heirs and Succession in an Age of Monarchy....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Fathers and Sons in the History of the Hohenzollern Dynasty....Pages 19-37
Heirs and Their Wives: Setting the Scene for Umbertian Italy....Pages 38-52
Heirs before the Altar: Hohenzollern Marriages in a Bourgeois Age....Pages 53-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Education and the Rituals of Monarchy in the Kingdom of Württemberg: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince Karl and Prince Wilhelm Compared....Pages 75-91
Travels with a Camera: The Prince of Wales, Photography and the Mobile Court....Pages 92-108
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....Pages 109-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-127
Domesticating a German Heir to the Danish Throne....Pages 129-146
The Succession of an Unborn King: Constitutional Politics in Spain after the Death of Alfonso XII....Pages 147-159
An Italian Heir for the New Century: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples....Pages 160-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
1834–1869–1891: The Untimely Deaths of Three Heirs to the Belgian Throne....Pages 179-195
The Impossible Task of Replacing a Model Heir: The Death of Ferdinand-Philippe d’Orléans and the ‘New France’....Pages 196-210
The Opposition of the Archdukes: Rudolf, Franz Ferdinand and the late Habsburg Monarchy....Pages 211-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
A Prince in the Trenches? Edward VIII and the First World War....Pages 229-246
Wilhelm’s War: A Hohenzollern in Conflict 1914–18....Pages 247-262
Germany’s Ersatz Kaiser? The Political Opportunities of Max von Baden: Royal Heir and Imperial Chancellor....Pages 263-279
Back Matter....Pages 281-288