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Part of the charm of the evening is that it is a profile in fealty. Victoria attributes to her subjects the same faith, loyalty and affection which she feels to wards her beloved consort, Prince Albert. Whether the Light Brigade is charging blindly to its doom at Balaklava or Londoners are weeping helplessly in the streets at the Queen's Diamond ubilee, they are doing precisely what Victoria would have done if the roles had been reversed. The simplicity of her self-concern is disarming. She is like a spoiled child of power, too unsophisticated not to tell...
...latest edition of the authoritative Burke's Peerage. The harsh terms of her morganatic marriage to the abdicated King Edward VIII in 1937 were "the most flagrant act of discrimination in the whole history of our dynasty," Thomas fumed, arguing that she ought to be recognized as the "consort of a royal prince" and referred to as "Her Royal Highness" instead of having to scruff along as "Her Grace...
...fairy tales and most novels, the villains are more captivating than the heroes. Jane, the wicked stepmother, cultivates her malice by writing poison-pen letters. Her equally wicked consort, Hogo de Bergerac, cultivates evil by offering himself as an informer to the Internal Revenue Service...
During the middle 1950s, Luce spent much of his time in Rome with his wife Clare, who had been appointed Ambassador to Italy by President Eisenhower in 1953. The Italian government gave him an honorary rank, as the ambassador's consort, immediately behind ministers plenipotentiary. But Luce kept discreetly out of the limelight, proudly leaving it to Clare. He studied Italian, roamed through Rome (he liked to show visitors the zoo, where he usually fed the animals), and set up a separate office of his own overlooking the Borghese Gardens. From there, he sent a steady flow of memos...
...others who consort to slow the pace are the butler (Prentice Claflin). Doctor Finache (David Wilkinson), and Antoinette the cook (Honor Moore). Claflin ranges about the stage, making himself disagreeable to the other characters and to us. Feydeau devoted at least several tablespoons of wit to the part, and Claflin ought to do better. Wilkinson's failure is difficult to explain. Physically he is suited to the part of an aging man of science and affair who still has an eye for the chorines. Unfortunately he is always a step or so behind the action, looking on but stepping aside...