Word: consort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martinique. Another French colony. Birthplace of the Empress Josephine, consort of Napoleon...
...there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...Duchy of Luxembourg (between Belgium and Germany). He is the Archduke Otto of Hapsburg, 15, eldest son of exiled Empress Zita, and sole legitimate heir to the vacant throne of Hungary. He was spending Christmas and New Year's at the Grand Ducal court of Princess Charlotte and Prince-Consort Felix of Luxembourg. Seemingly a successful prayer is the only force which might soon soften the firm resolve of the Allied Powers not to permit the loyal people of Hungary to substitute a king for their present Regent (Admiral Nicholas Horthy...
...Story: In Belgium, Princess Astrid, consort of the Crown Prince, gave birth a fortnight ago to a 7-lb. daughter. Said despatches: "The cradle . . . had been optimistically oufitted in pink, the color for boys, that for a girl being blue."* Said many U. S. newspaper readers: "What! Pink for a BOY? Why, in our family, we have been using pink for GIRLS, blue for boys." A check of U. S. authorities (i. e., leading stores that sell baby equipment) showed: BOYS GIRLS...
Born. To Princessa Mafalda, 25, consort of Prince Filippo D'Assia and daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; in Rome...