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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Foreword xi
5. List of Contributors xii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Constructing the Body Politic
8. 2. How Two Ladies Steal a Crown 17
9. 3. Elizabeth When a Princess 43
10. 4. Elizabeth through the Looking Glass 61
11. 5. Royal Flesh, Gender and the Construction of Monarchy 88
12. Part II. Transgressing the Body Natural
13. 6. What the King Saw in the Belly of the Beast or How the 103 Lion Got in the Queen 101
14. 7. Posterity and the Body of the Princess in German Court 125 Funeral Books 125
15. 8 ‘Madame, Ma Chère Fille’ – ‘Dearest Child’ 156
16. Part III. Queens of Modernity
17. 9. Queen Margherita (1851–1926) 193
18. 10. The Double Skin 216
19. 11. Theatrical Monarchy 238
20. 12. The Unmanly Emperor 254
21. Part IV. Visual Metamorphoses
22. 13. The ‘Berlin’ Nefertiti Bust 279
23. 14. Imagined Queens between Heaven and Hell 306
24. 15. Queer Queen 327
25. Selected Bibliography 343
26. Index 359