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Royal Heirs in the Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

Frank Lorenz Müller
Affiliation:
University of St Andrews, Scotland
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This scene-setting chapter charts out the challenges Europe’s monarchies had to face in the wake of the French Revolution and the key means they employed to achieve their survival – among them an alliance with nationalism and imperialism, constitutional development and public relations techniques. It also introduces royal heirs as individual agents – and the process of succession more widely – as an essential part of this political arsenal. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the main contexts within which the lives and functions of a nineteenth-century heir had to unfold: the constitution, the royal family, the public sphere and the court.

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Royal Heirs
Succession and the Future of Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Europe
, pp. 11 - 51
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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