Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface and Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Mapping New Realms in the Study of Contemporary European Monarchies 9
5. Royal Public Interactions and Trans/National Relations (19th-21st Century)
6. “We’ll Never be Royals” – or Will We? Exploring Meghan Markle’s Impact on the British Royal Family Brand 29
7. Your Media Majesty: Three Kings and Radio in the Inter-War Years 47
8. European Royals and their Colonial Realms: Honors and Decorations 63
9. Between Politics and Dynastic Survival: 19th-Century Monarchy in Post-Revolutionary Europe (1815-1918) 89
10. Monarchy on Page, Stage, and Screen
11. Who’s Queen? Elizabeth I in Contemporary Culture 107
12. “Empires of all kinds collapse, but the fake tsars, they last forever.” Modern and Contemporary Memories of Tsar Šćepan Mali (1767-1773) 129
13. Long May He (Not) Reign? Literary Depictions of a ‘Meddling’ Future Monarch. Prince Charles in Mike Bartlett’s Play King Charles III (2014) and in Catherine Mayer’s Biography Charles: The Heart of a King (2015) 149
14. Gendered Strategies of Power: Queen Elizabeth II as a Politician in the Plays The Audience (2015 [2013]) and Handbagged (2013) 169
15. Royal Representations in Contemporary Popular Cultural Contexts
16. The (In)Significance of Queen Victoria in Neo-Victorian Comics 193
17. Monarchy and the Alien: Three Queens as Sites of Memory in Doctor Who 211
18. ‘Party at the Palace’: Popular Cultural Celebrations in the Context of Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee 233
19. Afterword
20. Afterword: The British Monarchy and Brexit 253
21. Authors 265