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Between 1834 and 1891, illness cost Belgium’s constitutional monarchy no fewer than three heirs to the throne. The lives of these princes have only been addressed by a small number of anecdotal biographies and a handful of scholarly studies.1 Though the last couple of decades have seen the publication of numerous analyses of the weaknesses and strengths of various nineteenth-century monarchies, these deaths have never been subjected to a comparative analysis focusing on their impact on the Belgian constitutional monarchy and on what was done to cope with the succession crises triggered by each of them.2
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De Spiegeleer, C. (2016). 1834–1869–1891: The Untimely Deaths of Three Heirs to the Belgian Throne. In: Müller, F.L., Mehrkens, H. (eds) Sons and Heirs. Palgrave Studies in Modern Monarchy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-45498-0_11
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