Word: consorte
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...broke the almost rural silence of Tirana, the small capital perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...
Beside the consul and his consort, soon there were living at the comfortable Hughes-Hallett establishment in Detroit's Indian Village, three white rats named Mehitabel, Ermyntrude and Sonia; a special brown-and-black-spotted rat called
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: "Benno and I will soon go for a cruise in the Baltic on the yacht we were given as a wedding present...