Abstract
Here, Nash looks at the modern requests of some governments to return royal bodies for repatriation in the causes of dynastic completion, completing mosaics of national history, and possibly to consider restoring monarchies.
The examples of Spain, Portugal, Serbia, Russia, Bulgaria, and Roumania are considered, the Transatlantic monarchy of the Empire of Brazil, and the Empire of Ethiopia.
Older examples drawn from Habsburg history and practice are also analysed by Nash; the important restitutions, eventually, after many exhumations, of Peter III of Russia, Prince Potemkin, King Stanislas Poniatowski of Poland, and the many Romanovs, including Grand Duchess Serge (who would also qualify under Chap. 8).
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Notes
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Interview with Fr. Gregory Corcoran, at Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, May 25, 2018.
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I am indebted here to Ricardo Javier Mateos Saniz de Medrano, who provided most of the above information, and who is the author of Estoril: los anos dorados, Reyes, principes, millionarios y exilados: una cronica de la alta sociedad de la posguerra europea (1946–1969) laesfera de las libras (2012).
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Ibid., pp. 451–2.
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Nisbet Bain, op. cit., p. 292.
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Zamoyski, op. cit., p. 456.
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Quoting Wortman, R., Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, 2 vols., Princeton (1995), Vol. I, p. 173.
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Hughes, op. cit., quoting Gendrikov, V.B., S.E. Sen’ko, Petropavlovskii sobor, Usypal’intsa imperatorskogo doma Romanovykh, St. Petersburg (1998), pp. 42–3.
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Hughes, op. cit., p. 134.
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Ibid., pp. 137–8.
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Ibid., pp. 143–4.
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Nisbet Bain, The Last King of Poland (1909), p. 153.
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Ibid., p. 154.
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Ibid., pp. 480, 492, 498, 499–502.
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I am indebted to Katrina Warne for this and other information about the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem, and for the photos she took during her visit there. Information given on November 1, 2018.
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Vickers, Hugo, op. cit., p. 399.
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Nash, M.L. (2019). Royal Requiem. In: The History and Politics of Exhumation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24047-9_8
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