Sons and Heirs

Bringing together an international team of specialists, this volume considers the place of royal heirs within their families, their education and accommodation, their ability to overcome succession crises, the consequences of the death of an heir and finally the roles royal heirs played during the First World War.   

Lothar Machtan, University of Bremen, Germany Katharine Anne Lerman, London Metropolitan University, UK Heather Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Günther Kronenbitter, University of Augsburg, Germany Christoph de Spiegeleer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Valentina Villa, Catholic University of Milan, Italy Carmina López Sánchez, Carlos III University, Spain Jes Fabricius Møller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Richard Kurdiovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Sophie Gordon, Royal Collection Trust, UK Eberhard Fritz, Altshausen Castle Archives, Germany Daniel Schönpflug, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany Axel Körner, University College London, UK Christopher Clark, University of Cambridge, UK