Word: consort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several years the Danes have been wondering whom Daisy would marry. Otherwise known as Princess Margrethe, 26, Daisy will one day inherit the throne of Denmark. Now she has chosen her consort: Count Henri Jean Marie André de Laborde de Monpezat, 32, a French diplomat whom she met in London three years ago. Briefly leaving his post as third secretary of the French embassy in London to meet his future in-laws, the count called on King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen, practiced his Danish, and arranged his conversion from Catholicism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church...
...Burgess and Maclean, a Philby or Vassall, go undetected for years, but is eager to winkle out a man of the people of leftist leanings who just happens to handle sensitive hardware. He is a noble, rugged, beer-drinking type who had fought against Hitler and Franco, and his consort is a very nice schoolteacher married to someone else. The jilted husband sets Security on the coup!e. It is a setup calculated to have the bleachers cheering as the pro-Communist pair outwit the villainous security men. The proletarian hero investigates the investigators and exposes his three persecutors...
Alas, he arrived in Manhattan too late on St. Patrick's Day to march in the Fifth Avenue parade, even though he did sport a fine green tie. Britain's Prince Philip, 44, in a green tie? "Just a coincidence," chuckled the consort. Thus avoiding controversy and the I.R.A., Philip continued his U.S. tour to promote Variety Clubs International charities and British exports, proving himself quite a salesman while firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water...
Queen Victoria would have none of it. Distressed by a spate of assassination attempts (three on herself and one on her prince consort, Albert), she asked the House of Lords to review the case, said Kaufman. "With the Queen's hot breath on him," the presiding judge in M'Naghten's case reversed himself and applied the "right-wrong" standard...
Fantasy completely takes over when the consort, on a world tour, stops at the Backward Islands, a tropical paradise ruled by a plump old bawd of an empress who believes that her subjects should do what comes naturally. What comes most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once he gets the hang of it, the consort finds he has a natural bent for doing the same thing. He beds down with a nubile native girl named Tia and sends the royal yacht home without him. Soon three gung-ho paratroopers arrive by helicopter and forcibly take the consort...