Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parliament for ?35,000 a year for Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would get their own town house, though they expected to start by living with the family. Unlike his great-great-grandfather, Victoria's Prince Albert, Philip would almost certainly be given a royal dukedom as well...
...Consort. Albert was the only modern precedent* for the role Philip would play in British life. Although he had no constitutional power of his own, Albert exercised enormous influence over British politics by patiently and studiously advising Victoria. A royal husband, he wrote, "should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife. He should aim at no power, shun all contention and continuously and anxiously watch every part of the public business in order to assist and advise...
Whether, like Albert, Philip would live up to these words; whether, like Albert, he would become Prince Consort in title as well as in fact were questions for the solemn future. For the moment, most Britons were content with the romantic present. "Ain't he just the answer," cooed a Bradford woolworker over Philip last week. "Me an' 'erbert's gettin' married abaht October...
...second Mary's husband, Prince William of Orange, was an heir to the British throne in his own right and ruled equally with his wife. Prince George of Denmark, who married Queen Anne, had no British status, except as the Queen's husband. Victoria's Albert was the first to receive the title Prince Consort. It gave him social precedence over other members of the royal family, changed his political status...
...movie people, all this was made to order. Eagle Lion had flown in a crew of 100, with Producer-Director Albert Rogell and Stars Joan Leslie, James Craig and Jack Oakie. Railroad Tycoon Robert Young, Eagle Lion's chief stockholder, had arranged for the ranch scenes to be made at the nearby showplace of his friend the Duke of Windsor. But Eagle Lion concentrated on the Stampede...