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...Luck & Good. Queen Wilhelmina's choice of a consort was Henry Wladimir, youngest son of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Henry was a taxidermist's dream of a German princeling, a beady-eyed, mean-spirited fellow, of whom the best that can be said is that he learned his place (considerably below the throne) and that, after eight years of marriage, he fathered Princess Juliana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Woman in the House | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Married. Charles John Robert Manners, tenth Duke of Rutland, 26, whom newspaper gossips once nominated for Prince Consort of Britain; and Anne Cumming Bell, 21, Mayfair model daughter of a Yorkshire Army major; both for the first time; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Consider the Termite | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...rich and rowdy Denver Post is a lady with a shady past. For most of her 53 years she was the gaudy consort of a river gambler and a barkeep, helped make them both multimillionaires. But for the last 13 years, having outlived them and their time, she has found life dull. Last week the aging hussy of Champa Street took a tardy fling at respectability, snatched herself a new kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ep Hoyt & the Hussy | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...abroad, still loves her, and she crudely exploits the bellhop's affections in order to get another interview with the reporter. This begins to be really painful when Mr. Walker courts her in a hired dress suit, under the impression that she wants to make him her prince consort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

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