Word: consort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke of Clarence was engaged to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck at the time of his death (1892), but in the succeeding year the Princess was married to Prince George, now King and Emperor. Chance interrupted the succession and brought to a young sailor prince his consort and his throne. How has Chance dealt with Gaston Doumergue...
George Henry Lewes, the lifelong lover and helper of the woman of genius, also has Miss Haldane's sympathy--"he did for George Eliot what the Prince Consort did for Queen Victoria." The reader is not surprised to learn that in spite of her unconventional marriage the novelist enjoyed the friendship and esteem of most of the other great ones of her time, and that when Lewes was ill a messenger enquired after his health from the court of Queen Victoria...
...down a long avenue and over a viaduct, picked their way through cobbled, streets, drew up before the withered wooden Palace. Straightway "Little Otto," a chubby sapling in a Byronic collar, handsome, frank of feature, stood bowing before Her Grand Ducal Highness, Princess Charlotte of Luxembourg, and the Prince Consort, Felix of Bourbon-Parma. Though newsgatherers did not penetrate the inflexible reserve of the Grand Ducal Court, it became known that Prince Otto and his mother expected to remain only briefly at Luxembourg, and it was believed that they would shortly be permitted to return to Hungary- a return ardently...
Simultaneously a very beautiful woman and a handsome child of five were en route to Italy from Rumania in a private car attached to the famed Simplon-Orient Express. She was Elena,* Princess of Greece and Rumania, consort of the abdicated Prince Carol. The boy was their five-year-old son, Mihail, now Crown Prince of Rumania. Carol has not returned to reside with them since November, 1925 when he left Rumania to attend the funeral of Alexandra, late Dowager Queen-Empress of Britain...
Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...