Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote to squelch, did squelch, the publicly expressed resentment at her practice of remaining inaccessible year after year, in mourning for her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert. Although published "anonymously," the letter was discreetly made known as from the Royal hand. When a pile of letters from people he did not know was brought to the late, great Georges Clemenceau he usually threw away the signed ones, read the anonymous "because letters people write but do not sign always contain what is really in their hearts...
Genially the Prince-Consort, Henry Duke of Mecklenburg, waddled in, sniffed the blue atmosphere knowingly, relieved the last traces of maidenly embarrassment by proffering cigarets from his own case...
...golden circlet of sapphires, rubies and diamonds upon the Emperor's woolly head, he continued, "Gird the sword upon thy loins, yet rule in Peace! May the Lord God, supreme ruler of men, bless and glorify thy reign, and may He ever keep thee and thy consort in His bosom...
...correspondent and most loyal Netherlanders hoped to hear from the lips of Majesty was a name. All last summer Queen & Daughter yachted and toured in Scandinavia. Dutch rotogravures have pictured the curvesome Crown Princess beside one tall and royal Scandinavian sapling after another. Which is to be her Prince Consort, future Man-in-the-House to the Netherlands' excessively female Royal line...
...London papers, commenting on the birth at Glamis last week traced the origin of the Home Secretary-Royal birth rule to the famed Warming Pan legend of the birth of James II's son, James the Old Pretender, father of Bonnie Prince Charlie, in 1688. Mary, James II's consort, gave birth to a son before her time. Contemporary rumor was that the child was not Mary's at all, but was brought to her, new born, in a long-handled warming pan. Whether this is the origin of the custom in Britain or not, nearly all other monarchies have...