| Contents |
How two ladies steal a crown: the memoirs of Helene Kottannerin (1439-40) at the court of queen Elisabeth of Hungary (1409-42) / Horst Wenzel-- Elizabeth when a princess: early self-representations in a portrait and a letter / Susan Frye -- Elizabeth through the looking glass: picturing the queen's two bodies / Louis Montrose -- Royal flesh, gender and the construction of a monarchy / Rachel Weil -- What the king saw in the belly of the beast or how the lion got in the queen: allegories of royal procreation in the 1622 royal entry into Lyon / Abby E. Zanger -- Posterity and the body of the princess in German court funeral books / Jill Bepler -- 'Madame, ma chere fille' - 'dearest child': letters from imperial mothers to royal daughters / Regina Schulte -- Queen Margherita (1851-1926): 'the only man in the house of Savoy' / Catherine Brice -- The double skin: imperial fashion in the nineteenth century / Julianne Vogel -- Theatrical monarchy: the making of Victoria, the modern family queen / Bernd Weisbrod -- The unmanly emperor: Wilhelm II and the fragility of the royal individual / Martin Kohlrausch -- The 'Berlin' Nefertiti bust: imperial fantasies in twentieth-century German archaeological discourse / Claudia Breger -- Imagined queens between heaven and hell: representations of Grace Kelly and Romy Schneider / Alexis Schwarzenbach -- Queer queen: Elizabeth II in Sally Potter's Film Orlando / Katharina Sykora. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-358) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005057003 |
| ISBN | 184545121X (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781845451219 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1845451597 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781845451592 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
