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GREAT BRITAIN Of Making Princes When Queen Victoria wanted to make her German husband-to-be "King Consort" by Act of Parliament, her favorite Prime Minister, Melbourne, was shocked. "For God's sake, Ma'am," he cried, "let's have no more of it. If you get the English people into the way of making Kings, you will get them into the way of unmaking them." Years later (1857) the young Queen took matters into her own hands and created Albert "Prince Consort...
...chunks of fact: the royal couple had not been together since mid-October when the Duke went on cruise; no royal child has been born since Elizabeth became Queen. In the teeth of the storm, royal spokesmen issued a firm denial of any rift between the Queen and her consort. This week Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated during a six-week whisker-growing...
...probably the new dimension of sex, which was evidently thought fitting for Lady Macbeth. She oils her way up and down Macbeth too physically. The porter's frightening over-eagerness to be a buffoon is also distressing, despite his amusing gestures. And white robes, worn by Macbeth and his consort, the morning after Duncan's murder, are a bit obvious. However, the production should not be criticized for its frequent innovation in punctuation of famous speeches--"There would have been time for such a word tomorrow. And tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in..." or "If it were done. When..."--which...
...Christmas message to the Dutch people, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana spoke out bluntly on the palace crisis that has rocked the House of Orange-Nassau. The royal disharmony manifest between Juliana and her consort, much-traveling Prince Bernhard, apparently focused on the Queen's now renounced ties with Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25 et seq.). Said Juliana: "Why . . . do some people attack someone by devious means with false claims? Why . . . do they try to drive a wedge between a man and a woman in vain attempts to destroy a deeply rooted unity...
William Byrd & His Age (Alfred Deller; Basel's Wenzinger Consort of Viols; Vanguard). Music from the golden age of English music (16th-17th centuries) sung in the round, slightly hooty but flexible alto of famed Countertenor Deller. Once the listener becomes adjusted to antique shifts of harmony, the music becomes extremely poignant. But countertenors-male voices that have been trained to sing in the falsetto range, but with more than falsetto power and resonance-are less easily adjusted to. for their tones sound sexless and unsettling...