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26
. Portrait of Stanislas II Augustus, king of Poland (pastel on paper mounted on canvas), after Marcello Bacciarelli (1731–1818) (copyright © Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library)
27
. Summer afternoon in a ‘Stetl’ in Galicia.
c
. 1900 (ullstein bild/Imagno)
28
. A Hutsul man with horse, Poland (copyright © RIA Novosti/TopFoto)
29
. Górale men, Poland (Tatrzańskiego Parku Narodowego, Poland, with thanks to Mr Zbigniew Ładygin)
30
. Lwów scene,
c
. 1900 (Public Domain)
31
. Emperor Joseph II wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece. Oil on canvas, Georg Weickert, eighteenth century (ullstein bild/Imagno)
32
. Franz Joseph (1830–1916), Austrian emperor (Mary Evans Picture Library)
33
. Curonian Spit, East Prussia, wandering dune and lagoon, 1934 (copyright © ullstein bild/TopFoto)
34
. Marienburg, West Prussia. Castle of the Teutonic Order, from the northwest,
c
. 1930 (akg-images/Paul W. John)
35
. Detail from
The Battle of Grunwald
by Jan Matejko, oil on canvas, 1878 (National Museum in Warsaw)
36
. Tannenberg Memorial in 1934, on the occasion of the transfer of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg’s remains to the crypt. (ullstein bild/Imagno)
37
.
The Prussian Homage
by Jan Matejko, oil on canvas, 1882 (Wawel Museum, Kraków)
38
. Albrecht I von Hohenzollern, duke of Prussia, painting, 1522 (akg-images)
39
. Frederick I, King of Prussia (1701–13), colour print, 1890, after a watercolour by Woldemar Friedrich (akg images)
40
. Frederick William (1620–1688), the ‘Great Elector’, after an engraving of 1683 by Antoine Masson (
TopFoto.co.uk
)
41
. Hautecombe monastery on the western shore of Lake Bourget, lithograph (
c
. 1860?) by A. Cuvillier (akg-images)
42
.
Bonneville, Savoy with Mont Blanc
, by J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) (private collection/photograph copyright © Christie’s Images/The Bridgeman Art Library)
43
. The citizens of Chambéry vote for annexation, summer 1860 (Mary Evans Picture Library)
44
. Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy, king of Italy (copyright © 2006 Alinari/TopFoto)
45
. Fiftieth anniversary of the annexation of Savoy to France, illustration,
Le Petit Journal
, 18 September 1910 (colour lithograph) (private collection/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)
46
. Activists in Piazza del Quirinale before the referendum of 2 June 1946 (copyright © 2006 Alinari/TopFoto)
47
. Marie Luise of Bourbon with her children. painting, 1807, by Wilhelm Titel (1784–1862) (akg-images/Rabatti/Domingie)
48
. Silver florin of the Kingdom of Etruria (private collection)
49
. Elisa Baciocchi, grand duchess of Tuscany, and her court, by Pietro Benvenuti, oil on canvas, 1813 (copyright © RMN/Chateau de Versailles)
50
. San Miniato in Val d’Arno, Tuscany, Italy (Bruno Morandi/Robert Harding/Getty)
51
. Napoleon in exile on Elba before his return to France. Aquatint,
c
. 1830, with later colouring (akg-images)
52
. Victoria and Albert at the time of their wedding, 1840 (Mary Evans Picture Library)
53
. Royal group photograph, Coburg, April 1894 (The Royal Collection, copyright © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
54
. Duke Karl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 1916 (bpk/Langhammer)
55
. Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip on their wedding day, 20 November 1947 (copyright © 2003 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
56
. Funeral procession of George V (copyright © 2005 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
57
. Hitler entering Prague, 17 March 1939 (copyright © 1999 Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
58
. Huszt, 1939 (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
59
. Black and Tans in Dublin, 1920 (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
60
. ‘The Treaty Makers’ (sepia photograph), English photographer (Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/The Bridgeman Art Library)
61
. Women under guard in Dublin, 1921 (copyright © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis)
62
. De Valera taking the salute at an IRA parade (Topham
Picturepoint/TopFoto.co.uk
)
63
. King George V and Queen Mary during a visit to Ireland, July 1911 (photograph by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
64
. Participants of the Imperial Conference 1926 seated with King George V (Library and Archives Canada)
65
. Queen Elizabeth II makes a speech watched by Irish
taoiseach
Enda Kenny and President Mary McAleese during a State dinner in Dublin Castle, 18 May 2011 in Dublin (photograph by Irish Governmen/Pool/Getty Images)
66
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
70
. Irish postage stamps (images courtesy of the Royal Philatelic Society; with thanks to Dr Alan Huggins)
71
. King Nikola of Montenegro with his family, undated (Mary Evans Picture Library)
72
. King Nikola of Montenegro,
c
. 1910 (ullstein bild)
73
. King Nikola in exile, France, 1921 (copyright © The Granger Collection)
74
. Montenegrin postage stamps (author’s collection)
75
. Montenegrin postage stamps (British Library, Philatelic Collections: Supplementary Collection – Montenegro)
76
.
Kalevipoeg Carrying the Boards
, 1914 (pastel on paper), by OskarKallis (1892–1917) (copyright © Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia/The Bridgeman Art Library)
77
. Bronze Soldier monument in the Tallinn military cemetery (akg-images/RIA Nowosti)
78
. Linda Monument in front of the Long Herman tower in Tallinn (copyright © RIA Novosti/TopFoto)
79
. Red Army soldiers occupying Tallinn, June 1940 (private collection)
80
. Volunteers of the Latvian Legion parade in Talinn, 1943 (SV-Bilderdienst)
81
. The Baltic Way Protest, August 1989 (ullstein bild/Nowosti)
82
. Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev, 1991 (copyright © RIA Novosti/TopFoto)

List of Figures

   
1. Carolingians and Bosonids

   
2. The Burgundian succession

   
3. Early rulers of Aragon: the House of Ramiro

   
4. The House of Trastámara

   
5. The Jagiellons

   
6. The early Radziwiłłs

   
7. Hohenzollerns and Jagiellons

   
8. The later Hohenzollerns, 1701–1918

   
9. Counts of Savoy

10. I Buonaparti: the Bonapartes

11. Bourbon – Borbón – Borbone (the Bourbons)

12. The Hanovers and the Wettins

13. The British Saxe-Coburgs and Gothas

14. Petrović and Karadjeordjević

List of Maps

1 Kingdom of Tolosa, fifth–sixth centuries
2 Firth of Clyde
3 Northern Britannia,
c
. AD 410
4 The ‘Old North’, sixth–seventh centuries
5 The Viking invasions
6 Northern Britain, ninth–tenth centuries
7 Bornholm
8 The first Burgundian Kingdom (411–437)
9 The second Burgundian Kingdom (451–532/4)
10 Burgundy within the Frankish realms, mid-sixth century
11 The legacy of central Lotharingia
12 The Duchy of Burgundy, eleventh century
13 The Kingdom of Provence,
c
. 900
14 The Three Burgundies,
c
. AD 1000
15 The imperial Kingdom of Arles from 1032
16 The modern linguistic region Arpitania
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