Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the great, mournful bell of St. Paul's pealed for the first time since the death of Edward VII; tolled for the Dowager Queen Alexandra, his royal consort, who died of a lingering heart trouble at Sandringham, their onetime summer home...
...Dinner was a most imposing affair. Even in the old days at Berlin there was not more ceremony. The ex-Kaiser appeared in a glittering uniform, with decorations sparkling on his breast. . . . His consort (the former Princess Hermine) was magnificently gowned and all the staff were in full uniform. . . . I sat at the ex-Kaiser's right and next to me sat the Lord Chamberlain...
Died. The Dowager Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, at Sandringham (see p. 11, COMMONWEALTH...
...conversion was most opportune. It materially aided Ferdinand in securing his recognition by Russia, Turkey and the Powers as "Prince of Bulgaria." Up to that time, although Ferdinand was a nephew of Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, and a grandson of King Louis Philippe, and had been called to the Bulgarian throne by the Grand Sobranye of Bulgaria on the abdication of Prince Alexander in 1886, he was freely styled "usurper" by his enemies...
...royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture gives the general effect of "much cry and little wool...