1 European sovereigns and their empires 'beyond the seas' / 2 The British royal family and the colonial empire from the Georgians to Prince George / 3 Two Victorias? Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria and Melbourne, 1867-68 / 4 Kaiser Wilhelm II and the limits of the royal prerogative in German South-West Africa / 5 Orangists in a red empire: salutations from a Dutch queen's supporters in a British South Africa / 6 Sultans and the House of Orange-Nassau: Indonesian perceptions of power relationships with the Dutch / 7 The return of the throne: the repatriation of the Kandyan regalia to Ceylon / 8 Kingitanga and Crown: New Zealand's Maori King movement and its relationship with the British monarchy / 9 The Maharani of Kutch and courtly life before and after Indian independence / 10 Colonies, monarchy, empire and the French ancien régime / 11 Napoleon III and France's colonial expansion: national grandeur, territorial conquests and colonial embellishment, 1852-70 / 13 An empire for a kingdom: monarchy and Fascism in the Italian colonies / 14 'So brave Etruria grew': dividing the Crown in early colonial New South Wales, 1808-10 / 15 A new monarchy for a new commonwealth? Monarchy and the consequences of republican India / 16 Waiting to die? The British monarchy in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, 1991-2015