Word: consort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Bucharest Princess Helen of Greece, consort of Carol, announced last week that she would soon take their son, Crown Prince Michel of Rumania, with her to Rapallo, Italy, where he will pass the rest of the winter...
...riches is no longer a passport to a life of honor or respect. Even princes must have careers, nowadays, or their bobbed haired ladies, what with their books and their lectures will quickly eclipse them and they will find themselves stuffed in a cupboard in a dark corner labelled "consort". No, the days when one married a kingdom and only incidentally a lady are gone forever. Moreover it has become customary in these affairs of late to secure the services of Cupid rather than those of the minister of state as marriage broker. But of course marital emancipation of royalty...
FarewelL At Victoria Station the King-Emperor and his Consort, who never leave London to welcome or say farewell to anyone, bade Godspeed to the Duke and Duchess as they entrained for Portsmouth. With grave decorum the King-Emperor entered the Ducal railway compartment, kissed his daughter-in-law, half-embraced his son with a fatherly pat upon the back and stepped out of the com- partment again onto the platform. Edward of Wales, always in high spirits when chatting with his merry sister-in-law, rode down to Portsmouth, as did Prince Henry and Prince George. When the royal...
Marie, Queen of Jugoslavia, daughter of Marie of Rumania, gave her opinion last week of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, her brother, who resides at Paris with his mistress while his onetime morganatic wife strives to establish the legitimacy of their child; and his consort, Princess Helene of Greece, lives with his legitimate son Crown Prince Michel at Bucharest...
Anti-Climax. An entire wagonlit full of correspondents who had accompanied the Queen from Paris were vexed by the necessity of reporting that King Ferdinand, who waited on the platform to greet his royal consort, seemed a trifle pale but by no means at Death's door. The correspondents had come in hopes of witnessing...