Word: consort
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...decades she seemed the fairy godmother of an entire adoring nation. Elizabeth, Queen Consort to King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, was, historians will doubtless record, the woman who helped restore the majesty of the throne after the abdication of George's brother Edward VIII in 1936. But the Queen Mother's former subjects will be more likely to remember her as the sprightly Queen Mum who seemed almost a part of everyone's family...
...decades she seemed the fairy godmother of an entire adoring nation. Elizabeth, Queen Consort to King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II, was, historians will doubtless record, the woman who helped restore the majesty of the throne after the abdication of George's brother Edward VIII in 1936. But the Queen Mother's former subjects will be more likely to remember her as the sprightly Queen Mum who seemed almost a part of everyone's family...
...gave up his crown to marry Wallis Simpson, an American who divorced her second husband to wed the former King. (To the end of her days, the otherwise indulgent Elizabeth regarded the abdication as an unpardonable dereliction of duty.) Albert thereupon became King George VI and Elizabeth his Queen Consort...
...himself, the son of one of the Emperor's intimates. He is handsome and graceful and charming, and irresistible to women. He is also unable to resist his own fancies?appetites would be too crude a word for them, although he does manage to get the Emperor's favorite consort pregnant. This is not good news even in a poly-gamous world. Early on, the narrator wonders whether she should be telling us all about Genji's naughty doings. "No doubt," she solicits, "I must now beg everyone's indulgence for my effrontery in painting so wicked a portrait...
...years. Surprisingly, her latest song is about how love conquers all CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues Soul...