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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Series information 4 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Table of contents 7 List of figures 9 List of contributors 11 Acknowledgements 14 1 European sovereigns and their empires ‘beyond the seas’ 15 British imperial coronations, 1937 and 1953 15 European monarchs and their overseas empires 20 Colonial and indigenous rulers 23 Royal powers and prerogatives 27 Royals in the colonies 31 Conclusion 36 Notes 38 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George 41 Monarchy and Empire under the Tudors, Stuarts and Georgians 44 Queen Victoria and Britain’s colonies 47 Queen Victoria and indigenous peoples 50 Federating the colonial empire under the British Crown 54 Notes 57 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867–68 65 Two Victorias? 67 Representing Queen Victoria and Prince Alfred 68 Representing the colony 72 Masculine culture 74 Respectable society 76 The diaries of Curtis Candler and Frederick Standish 78 Masculine and naval bonds 82 Epilogue 85 Conclusion 86 Notes 87 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa 91 The Kaiser’s prerogative power in the colon

Author

Robert Aldrich and Cindy McCreery

Published

2016

Language

EN