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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN MODERN MONARCHY Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth- Century Europe Edited by Frank Lorenz Müller and Heidi Mehrkens Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy Series Editors Axel Körner University College London, UK Heather Jones London School of Economics, UK Heidi Mehrkens University of Aberdeen, UK Frank Lorenz Müller University of St Andrews, UK The death of Louis XVI on the scaffold in 1793 did not mark the begin- ning of the end of monarchy. What followed was a Long Nineteenth Century during which monarchical systems continued to be politically and culturally dominant both in Europe and beyond. They became a refer- ence point for debates on constitutional government and understandings of political liberalism. Within multinational settings monarchy offered an alternative to centralised national states. Not even the cataclysms of the twentieth century could wipe monarchy completely off the political, men- tal and emotional maps. Studies in Modern Monarchy refl ects the vibrancy of research into this topic by bringing together monographs and edited collections exploring the history of monarchy in Europe and the world in the period after the end of the ancien régime. Committed to a scholarly approach to the royal past, the series is open in terms of geographical and thematic coverage, welcoming studies examining any aspect of any part of the modern monarchical world. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14609 Frank Lorenz Müller • H eidi Mehrkens Editors Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe Editors Frank Lorenz Müller Heidi Mehrkens School of History Lecturer in Modern European History University of St Andrews University of Aberdeen, UK St Andrews, UK Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy ISBN 978-1-137-59208-8 ISBN 978-1-137-59206-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59206-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016955249 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2 016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identifi ed as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the pub- lisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover Illustration: © Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library / Alamy Stock Photo (The Prince and Princess of Wales’ royal visit to Ireland, 1885. The procession passing over Parnell Bridge, Cork.) Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors of this volume would like to put on record their gratitude to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Through its funding of our research project, it enabled us to organize the conference where the ideas published in this volume were fi rst aired and discussed. Moreover, two of the chapters included in this volume are based on doctoral research made possible by AHRC-funded postgraduate studentships. We warmly invite readers to our website ( h ttp://heirstothethrone-project.net/ ) to glean further information about our research project on the role of royal heirs in nineteenth-century Europe. We also extend our thanks to the Royal Historical Society and the University of St Andrews, who generously supported our conference ‘Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power’ (St Andrews, 2015) with a grant. We would further like to thank Amy Westwell for her work on the index. The editors are also indebted to the following archives, libraries and copyright holders for granting permission for the use of images in this volume: Museo Civico del Risorgimento, Bologna; Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Vienna; St Andrews University Library, St Andrews; the Municipality of Bergen, Norway. v C ONTENTS 1 ‘ Winning their Trust and Affection’: Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe 1 Frank Lorenz Müller Part I Conduits of Communication 2 1 2 T he Royal Shop Window: Royal Heirs and the Monarchy in Post-Risorgimento Italy, 1860–1878 23 Maria-Christina Marchi 3 A Visible Presence: Royal Events, Media Images and Popular Spectatorship in Oscarian Sweden 4 5 Kristina Widestedt 4 R oyal Ambassadors: Monarchical Public Diplomacy and the United States 6 3 Erik Goldstein 5 O cular Sovereignty, Acclamatory Rulership and Political Communication: Visits of Princes of Wales to Bengal 8 1 Milinda Banerjee vii viii CONTENTS Part II Persuading Sceptical Audiences 1 01 6 T he Power of Presence: Crafting a Norwegian Identity for the Bernadotte Heirs 103 Trond Norén Isaksen 7 B ertie Prince of Wales: Prince Hal and the Widow of Windsor 123 Jane Ridley 8 A rchduke Franz Ferdinand: An Uncharming Prince? 139 Alma Hannig Part III Emotional Appeals 161 9 D ynastic Heritage and Bourgeois Morals: Monarchy and Family in the Nineteenth Century 1 63 Monika Wienfort 10 The Importance of Looking the Part: Heirs and Male Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Spain 181 Richard Meyer Forsting 11 How to F ashion the Popularity of the British Monarchy: Alexandra, Princess of Wales and the Attractions of Attire 2 01 Imke Polland 12 Love, Duty and Diplomacy: The Mixed Response to the 1947 Engagement of Princess Elizabeth 2 23 Edward Owens CONTENTS ix Part IV Dynastic Identities 2 41 13 A ‘Sporting Hermes’: Crown Prince Constantine and the Ancient Heritage of Modern Greece 243 Miriam Schneider 14 The King as Father, Orangism and the Uses of a Hero: King William I of the Netherlands and the Prince of Orange, 1815–1840 263 Jeroen Koch 15 Narrating Prince Wilhelm of Prussia: Commemorative Biography as Monarchical Politics of Memory 2 81 Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh 16 How European was Nineteenth-Century Royal Soft Power? 303 Heidi Mehrkens Index 3 09
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