Royal Kinship. Anglo-German Family Networks 1815-1918 / Edition 1

by Karina Urbach, Clarissa Campbell Orr, John Davis, Andreas Gestrich, Jonathan Petropolous

Overview

Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about “their foreign roots”. The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an “imagined community”, invented by journalists and historians?

The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783598230035
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/16/2008
Series:	Prinz-Albert-Forschungen , #4
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x 0.02(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Karina Urbach, Deutsches Historisches Institut London, UK.

Karina Urbach, German Historical Institute London, UK.