Word: consorte
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...Sugar Loaf into Guanabara Bay last week, jet planes circled in the sky and shore batteries roared a royal 21-gun salute. On the cruiser's fantail, beneath the old imperial colors,* lay two oak coffins. They contained the remains of Princess Isabel of Braganza and her French consort, Gaston Count d'Eu. Brazil was honoring a national heroine, the princess who freed the slaves...
...Irish republican army might be back on the warpath. Police shrugged off the explosion as an "accident," but privately they were not so sure. Hundreds of armed men mounted guard along the 90-mile railroad line from Belfast to Londonderry. Their vigilance did not relax until Queen Elizabeth and consort stepped safely aboard their Viking and winged back to London...
Died. Elena, 79, ex-Queen of Italy, Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...
...Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house." His proper rank was not finally settled until four years before he died, when Parliament at last made him officially Prince Consort. Easygoing Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is better liked by his wife's subjects and less bothered by form. Nonetheless, next June's Coronation is less than nine months away, and he needed to be put in his proper place. Last week Queen Elizabeth declared in a royal warrant that...
...crown surrenders in revenues is twice what it gets back in allowances. Once in control of the money, the House of Commons has been traditionally reluctant to part with it. After a rowdy argument in the House in 1840, Queen Victoria's requested ?50,000 a year for Consort Albert was cut to ?30,000. In 1911, George V made a deal with the House by which the monarch's allowance would be tax-free in exchange for his agreement to entertain all foreign royalty out of his own pocket. In 1937, Laborites unsuccessfully opposed George...