Monarchy and Exile: the Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II

 
From the publishers:
Looking at fifteen different royal figures who went into exile, this volume discusses the role of exiled monarchs in domestic politics, in the state system in Europe and in the dynastic networks which transcended national frontiers. From the Jacobite diaspora and the French royalist émigrés to the German monarchists who hoped to install the Bavarian Crown Prince as German Emperor after the First World War, the absent monarch remained a focus of opposition, loyalism and patriotism. For the first time, monarchical exile is understood as a socio-political constellation that transformed society and not as personal fate or failure without further historical relevance.
 
Philip Mansel is Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research in London and the Royal Historical Society and is editor of The Court Historian, the journal of the Society for Court Studies. He is the author of nine books on European history, including biographies of Louis XVIII and the Prince de Ligne, and a history of Paris between Empires 1814-1852.
 
Torsten Riotte is Lecturer in History at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Educated at Cologne and Cambridge, he worked at the German Historical Institute London, and is co-editor of The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, and The Diplomats' World: A Cultural History of Diplomacy.