Word: consorte
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...just about. But Princess O'Rourke, a pleasant enough comedy, offers one unusual shot-prim Olivia de Havilland in a bathtub scene. Miss de Havilland, a princess in search of a diplomatically and physically acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess...
Without ceremony or circumstance, 63-year-old Queen Wilhelmina marked the 45th anniversary of her coronation. In London the Queen spent a Hausfrau's day at home with her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard, took routine spins on her bicycle...
...Napoleon Bonaparte and married Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, whom Napoleon disliked but raised to the rank of a marshal. During a military crisis in 1809-10 Bernadotte was invited to become Sweden's Regent. In 1818 Bernadotte was crowned King and, with Désirée as his consort, founded the present Swedish dynasty...
...tried all my life to drink," Helen Hayes told a Manhattan interviewer, "and I don't like it. I consort with nobody but drinkers. I married a good two-fisted drinker. Once I felt I had found something I could drink-vodka. But it was the same as with every other drink. I just got sleepy and had to be taken home...
...Comte de Paris, despite a somewhat squirrelish appearance, is personally a likable pretender. He is no sly neurotic, but a sobersided young man who studied politics at the Universities of Louvain and Brussels and likes to fly airplanes. His attractive young consort, the former Princess Isabelle d'Orléans-Bragance, 31, daughter of the late Brazilian Pretender Dom Pedro, would well become a throne. The would-be royal couple, incidentally, have six small children who are pictorially much more effective than their father...