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| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to the portraiture of royalty |
| 2 | Royalty and Photography in Europe, An Introduction |
| 3 | Cabinet cards: Royalty |
| British Royal Family |
| 4 | Cartes de visite: British royalty |
| 5 | Queen Victoria (1819-1901) |
| 6 | Charles Johan Bergamasco: Edward, The Prince of Wales |
| 7 | Henry Hering - Alfred Reeves: Photograph. The Kings and Queens of England |
| 8 | Ghémar Frères: The Engagement of the future Queen Alexandra and Edward VII, Brussels, Belgium (September 1862) |
| 9 | Portrait: Royalty: Suvenir of the Royal Visit to India (1876) |
| 10 | Royal support for industry, the arts and photography in Victorian Britain |
| 11 | Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) |
| 12 | Dejatch Alamayou (1861-1879) |
| 13 | William Bambridge: Sally [Sarah] Bonetta Forbes (c. 1843-1880) |
| 14 | Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841–1864) |
| Royal dynasties |
| 15 | Royal family of France |
| 16 | Cartes de visite: French royalty |
| 17 | François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian (19 June 1867) |
| 18 | Royal family of Germany |
| 19 | Royal family of Belgium |
| 20 | Royal family of Austro-Hungary |
| 21 | Royal family of Romania |
| 22 | Royal family of Sweden |
| 23 | Royal family of Russia |
| 24 | Royal family of Portugal |
| 25 | Robinson & Roi: The Famous Glass Dress - Royal Robe of Princess Eulalia |
| 26 | Carneiro & Gaspar - painted by J. Courtois: Empress Teresa Cristina and Pedro II of Brazil |
| 27 | Royal family of Persia |
| 28 | Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent |
| 29 | Lala Deen Dayal: Sorabji Jehangir - Princes and Chiefs of India (1903) |
| 30 | Royal family of Burma |
| 31 | Royal family of Siam |
| 32 | John Thomson: Royal family of Siam |
| 33 | Felice Beato: Prince Kung / Prince Gong Qinwang of China |
| 34 | Xunling: Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, 1835-1908 |
| 35 | Woodbury and Page: Ruling families of Southeast Asia |
| 36 | Royal family of Japan |
| 37 | Royal family of Hawaii |
| 38 | Royal family of Tahiti |
| 39 | Chief Cakobau of Bau, the self-proclaimed King of Fiji |
| 40 | Royal family of Cambodia |
| Violent deaths of notable royals |
| 41 | François Aubert and others: The execution of Emperor Maximilian (19 June 1867) |
| 42 | Death of the Prince Imperial (Prince Louis-Napoléon) - Killed 1st June, 1879, on the Hyotoyozi river. South Africa |
| Perspectives on royalty |
| 43 | Different perspectives on royalty |
| Royal patronage of photographic studios |
| 44 | Cartes de visite: Backs: Royal patronage |
| 45 | Cabinet cards: Backs: Royal patronage |
