Word: consorte
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...none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed his wife that he had succeeded in seducing the actress "M." "Lucky fellow!-now I . . . feel doubly and unbelievably happily married." Gerda Bormann responded like a true Nazi consort. "You will have to see to it that one year M. has a child, and the next year I, so that you will always have a wife who is mobile." She urged that bigamy be legalized "as at the end of the Thirty Years...
...brief years, the last of the Regency Whigs held the hand of the first of the Victorian moralists. But the heyday of the Whig aristocracy was over. When the young Queen married her stern, respectable Prince Consort, Melbourne found himself in the doghouse. For a while Lord M fought the changing order, and his aged voice could be heard crying: "This damned morality will ruin everything!" But at last he retired to the country. "The fire is out," he told his friends bluntly. "The fire...
...guiding spirit behind Captain Bligh's famous trip on the Bounty, gave him a gold medal for his report on the care of breadfruit trees. It inspired a horseless carriage (its fuel: gunpowder) the design of the first really practical lifeboat. Under the presidency of Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, it set up London's first two public lavatories ("Public Waiting-Rooms"), established the Royal College of Music. Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern...
...Prince Consort. In 1948, De Diego splashed onto the front pages by marrying Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, who declared: 'Julio and I can be happy together. I'm working on a play, Julio has his art, and we spend our evenings together." This bliss did not last, although the De Diegos are still legally married and remain good friends.* Says Julio: "I was not cut out to be prince consort. What is a man that he should have to follow his wife around?" Julio now lives alone in a grubby, two-room Manhattan studio, where he prominently displays...
...Awful Bore. As the first German Hanover to occupy a throne in more than 80 years. Frederika more than justified her regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance of Greek politics. Frederika's personal charm and many good works had gone far in Greece to wipe out the stain of her German past and the fact that three of her brothers were officers in Hitler's Wehrmacht. Her Teutonic inclination toward rigid government was not so easy...