Word: consorte
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...what's beneath the crown." says France's Princess Isabelle. daughter of the French Pretender, the Count of Paris. A commoner should of course have money. Sweden's royal family ruled British Playboy Robin Douglas-Home (nephew of Foreign Secretary Lord Home) "unsuitable" as a consort for Princess Margaretha because of his low income. "You can't expect this young lady to get along without at least one maid," explained a palace spokesman...
...ancient idea of fate. Men saw necessity no longer springing from the god Dionysus, but from passion itself; and "with our theme being thus completely recast, it comes to face different considerations." Music then became important to tragedy because its "rhetorics" are "surely the most intimate consort to the presentation of the passions...
...screen, Brigitte Bardot, 27, liked what she saw almost as much as the Paris critics. Her latest flick, Le Repos du Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim, was lavishly lauded as her best bedtime story to date. To celebrate, she and her constant consort, Actor Sami Frey, 27, buzzed off to a Right Bank bistro to nuzzle the night away, touching off a spate of speculation in the Parisian press that Brigitte might, for Sami, convert to Judaism. ∙ ∙ ∙ As Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 52, told it to a select little clique...
...America, is represented by an extraordinarily lyrical landscape bathed in twilight. John Wilde has a delightfully funny fantasy called Happy, Crazy, American Animals and a Man and Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled art world vanish: the figurative and abstract paintings consort like long-time companions, and the brilliant assembly proves that no school has a monopoly on beauty. Even the most familiar artists brim with youth and vigor in this collection...
...constantly demanded new surprises, exclaiming gruffly "We must have no duplicates!" In a single day, Fabergé's biographer H. C. Bainbridge remembers, the house of Fabergé played host to the King and Queen of Norway, the Kings of Denmark and Greece, and Alexandra, Edward's consort...