Word: consorte
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...Consort. More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it. The vast, amorphous amalgam of protocol, precedent, precept and law which is the British constitution contains no passages outlining a consort's duty. Most of the consorts who preceded Philip did just what they chose. With a prosperous kingdom of his own, Philip of Spain only occasionally visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that...
Well aware of the dislike and distrust in which he was held by Victoria's subjects for most of his life, Albert himself was wisely self-effacing. "The position of Prince Consort requires that the husband should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife," he wrote. But at a time when the Queen could still conduct diplomacy with other chiefs of state over the head of her government, he carried the key to Victoria's dispatch boxes, served as his wife's guide, mentor, confidant and private secretary, drafted her state orders...
...chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such rebellion...
...protege to the top Kremlin big shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands...
...quiet times between parties, the Sultan has found time to keep his household stocked with the requisite number of permissible wives; they have borne him 20-odd children. Wife No. 1, the "official consort," is the daughter of a neighboring sultan, but Wife No. 4 found her way to the Sultan's side via the dance halls of Kuala Lumpur. As the mother of the Sultan's latest-born son, she has been generally considered the royal favorite...