Illuminates the role played by the heirs to the throne in the survival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe.

Frank Lorenz Müller is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Between 2012 and 2017, he led a major research project on the role of heirs in nineteenth-century monarchies. His publications include Britain and the German Question (2002), Our Fritz. Emperor Frederick III and the Political Culture of Imperial Germany (2011) and, as co-editor, Royal Heirs and the Uses of Soft Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2016). He is founder-editor of the 'Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy'.

Introduction; 1. 'Pledge of a blessed future': royal heirs in the nineteenth century; 2. 'And this comedy that I have to perform before the world': royal heirs as sons and husbands; 3. 'The affair of his people': the education of royal heirs in the nineteenth century; 4. 'Making the Princess known and securing friends for after times': royal heirs in politics, press and the public sphere; 5. 'From my earliest youth the army has been my absolute love': royal heirs and the militarisation of the monarchy; Conclusion; Appendix: List of rulers and heirs.