Introduction: Politics, culture and queens consort / Adam Morton
Art collections as dynastic tool : the Jagiellonian princesses Katarzyna, Queen of Sweden, and Zofia, Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel / Almut Bues
The consort in the theatre of power : Maria Amalia of Saxony, Queen of the Two Sicilies, Queen of Spain / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
The "two bodies" of the female sovereign : awkward hierarchies in images of Empress Maria Theresia, Catherine the Great of Russia and their male consorts / Christina Strunck
Luise Ulrike of Prussia, Queen of Sweden, and the search for political space / Elise Dermineur and Svante Norrhem
Marriage in a global context : Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland / Clarissa Campbell Orr
Dynastic positioning and political newsgathering : Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Gottorf, Queen of Sweden, and her correspondence / Jill Bepler
Greeting the Stuart queens consort : cultural exchange and the nuptial texts for Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, queens of Britain / Anna-Marie Linnell
Sanctity and suspicion : catholicism, conspiracy and the representation of Henrietta Maria of France and Catherine of Braganza, queens of Britain / Adam Morton
Four weddings and five funerals : dynastic integration and cultural transfer between the Houses of Braunschweig and Brandenburg in the eighteenth century / Thomas Biskup
Afterword: Queens consort, cultural transfer and European politics / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly.