Unexpected Heirs in Early Modern Europe: Potential Kings and Queens

1. Introduction
I. Securing a Dynasty
2. A Bastard and a Changeling?: England's Edward of Westminster and Delayed Childbirth
3. Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond and Elizabeth York: Dynastic Competitors or Allies?
4. Perceptions of Princesses: Pre-accession Book Dedications to Mary and Elizabeth Tudor
5. Fit for a King?: The Gendered Emotional Performances of Catherine de Medici as Dauphine of France, 1536-1547
6. Never the Queen: Anne Stuart's Formative Years
II. Second Sons
7. Another Spare to the French Crown: Henry III of France's Self-Representation, Reputation and Royal Authority
8. Losing an Unexpected Throne: Deposing Second Sons of the Stuart Dynasty
9. Expected, then Passed Over: Second Sons in the French Monarchy of the Seventeenth Century
III. Unexpected Survival
10. A Queen in Constant Motion: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Unexpected Mobility of Sovereignty
11. The Unexpected Virgin: The Perpetual Succession Crisis of Elizabeth I