Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. 1 Empire tours 1
7. 2 Royal tour by proxy 23
8. 3 French imperial tours 38
9. 4 Something borrowed, something blue 56
10. 5 Royalty, loyalism and citizenship in the nineteenth- century British settler empire 80
11. 6 The Maharaja of Gondal in Europe in 1883 94
12. 7 Performing monarchy 110
13. 8 Colonial kings in the metropole 125
14. 9 Tensions of empire and monarchy 146
15. 10 Belgian royals on tour in the Congo, 1909– 1960 169
16. 11 Royal symbolism 191
17. 12 The throne behind the power? 211
18. 13 Strained encounters 233
19. 14 The 1947 royal tour in Smuts’s Raj 250
20. Index 271