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Mary of Teck: A Dutiful Consort
Mary of Teck (1867–1953), queen consort from 1910 to 1936, remains an enigmatic figure. Famous as a dutiful queen to George V and Queen Mother to...
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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: The People’s Matriarch
As the daughter of a Scottish earl, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was never intended to be queen consort, but when her husband, George VI, unexpectedly took...
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The Representative of the Crown and the Governor-General of the Irish Free State: Text and Context
Included in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was the concept of ‘[t]he representative of the Crown’ who would act in place of the Crown in the newly...
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The Abdication of King Edward VIII
The abdication of Edward VIII was constitutionally significant for the development of Irish constitutionalism in the 1930s. It allowed the Fianna...
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The Windsor Consorts: Matriarchy and Modernisation
In examining and comparing the Windsor consorts, this chapter evaluates the impact of modern contexts—such as depoliticised monarchical power, rising...
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From War to Revolution
This chapter starts by surveying the political situation in Europe in January 1864 with a special emphasis on the great power policies towards the...
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Revisiting the Legacy of the Amendment Procedure
The Constitution of the Irish Free State contained a standard provision that it would be amended by referendum requiring thresholds of both turnout...
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The Scandinavian Question
This chapter spans the years 1859–1862, a crucial phase in the continued escalation of the Danish-German conflict as well as for Scandinavian...
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The Politicization of Street-Names
Τhis chapter covers the first attempts of the two communities to claim territorial space within Nicosia in terms of ethnic origin through the use of...
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Restriction on Interracial Matrimony
The Ananda–Marileine case demonstrated the existence of the taboo on interracial matrimony. This chapter focuses on the connection between sexual...
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The Privy Council: A Monarchical Republic?
After the monarchy, the Privy Council was the most important institution of the Tudor government which acted as an administrative and advisory body....
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The Challenges to Voluntary Deference (1911–1945)
With the advent of democracy, rational deference became an instrument of continuity amidst change. The Parliament Act of 1911 marked the beginning of...
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Mary I in The Ringed Castle
The popular historical novelist Dorothy Dunnett OBE set the fifth of her Lymond Chronicles novels at the court of Philip and Mary, where the young...
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The Post-war Years: Going Solo
This chapter looks at the establishment of the Brenthurst Clinic in Hillbrow and its subsequent relocation to its present location in Parktown,...
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Gender and Family: Realms of Royalty
With the heirs to the throne taking centre stage in the post-Risorgimento period, the role of each royal family member was evolving in parallel with...
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‘I claim no right but would this land defend’: Loyalty to the Institution of Kingship in Blind Hary’s The Wallace
Rather than seeing The Wallace as a subversive text written in support of those dissatisfied with James III’s rule, this chapter will suggest that...
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Anne Boleyn in the Seventeenth Century
As the wars of religion played themselves out across the seventeenth century, Anne Boleyn’s story moved on to the stage. What is noticeable about...
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“Recouer thyne aunciente bewtie”: Mid-Tudor Empire over Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1550–1570
This chapter considers the apparent sea changes of the mid-Tudor era—from the “godly” protestant minority of Edward VI and his second regent, John...
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Voluntary Deference in Crisis (1945–1972)
The first serious challenge to the well-oiled and essentially Whiggish description of the constitution, in which everything seemed to flow naturally,...
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The Political Aesthetics of Anne Boleyn’s Queenship in Henry VIII
When Shakespeare and Fletcher wrote Henry VIII, or, All is True, they were responding to and codifying a political mythology developed within the...