Global Royal Families Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Monarchy as a form of government involves more than an individual sovereign, and encompasses consorts, heirs and other relatives. Since royals, especially in Europe, traditionally married other royals, there existed many familial ties across borders, reinforced by letters, gifts and regular visits. Royal families formed a 'club' connected further by shared status, privileges and influence. Increasingly from the nineteenth century, royal families became more global, aided by new technologies of transportation and communication. British and other European royals visited the colonies of their countries and distant independent states, and royals from Asia, Africa and elsewhere journeyed to Europe. Cross-cultural exchanges among royal families changed court cultures and had an impact on a wider public. The chapters in Global Royal Families present new perspectives on the global connections of monarchies from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s, examining cases of royal families from Britain, the German states, Spain, the Austro-Hungarian empire and Russia, as well as Japan, India, the Malay states, South Africa and the Pacific islands. It argues that these connections, and the regional and international encounters between royal families, played a significant but hitherto little appreciated role in cultural, social and political life.

Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney,Cindy McCreery, University of Sydney,Falko Schnicke, Johannes Kepler University Linz

1. Royal Families and Global Monarchies in Modern History: Past Trajectories and New Avenues, Robert Aldrich, Cindy McCreery, and Falko Schnicke2. The Globalization of Monarchs and Royal Families, c.1850-1945, Robert AldrichI. Transnational Encounters3. Meeting the Global Royal Family? The Visits of King Kal?kaua of Hawai'i and Princes Albert Victor and George of Britain to Meiji Japan and Johor, 1881-1882, Cindy McCreery4. Family Resemblance? Colonialism, Sovereignty, and the Global Royal Family in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i and Johor, Nicholas B. Miller5. 'Akin to a flight of locusts': The British and the Challenge of European Royal Travel to India in the Late Nineteenth Century, Aglaja Weindl6. 'The Great House across the ocean and . . . the Great Place here': A British-Zulu Royal Encounter and Writing Back to Empire in 1920s South Africa, Hilary Sapire7. The Internationalization of Japan's Symbolic Monarchy: Fifty Years of Diplomacy by the Japanese Emperor (1971-2021), Christian Oberländer8. Visiting the Republic or Meeting the Princes? The Ambiguous Categories of Royal Diplomacy in Elizabeth II's 1961 State Visit to India, Falko SchnickeII. Dynastic Strategies9. Royal Advice and Reactions: Understanding Gendered Responsibilities in Marriages of the Descendants of Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, Mary T. Duarte10. The Royal Network of Letters: The Transnational Correspondence of the Prussian Queen and German Empress Augusta (1811-1890), Susanne Bauer11. Victorian Royal Marital Diplomacy: Negotiating the 1874 Marriage of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, Aidan Jones12. Royal Families at War: Transnational Monarchy and the First World War, Moritz SorgIII. Royal Networks13. The Majesty of the Race: The Spanish Royal Family and Latin America, 1892-1931, Javier Moreno-Luzón14. Prince and 'Primitive': Chakma Raja Bhuvan Mohan Roy on the Crossroads of India, Burma, and Britain, Angma Dey Jhala15. Global Tourist, Imperial Prince: The Gaekwad of Baroda in Britain and Empire, 1875-1930s, Charles V. Reed16. At Home and Abroad: Indian Royal Families in the Twentieth Century (1900-1948), Priya Mirza