Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ideally suited to rule The Netherlands, Juliana was considered last week to be wisely marrying for love a prince who has not enough position or prestige to arouse in Dutch breasts the animosity risked by a Prince Consort from a foreign land who must always be more or less suspect of trying to influence his wife and Queen. For undertaking cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort...
...thick-legged heiress to the throne of the Netherlands; and Prince Bernard of Lippe of Germany, 25, lawyer, employe of the German dye trust, nephew of Prince Leopold IV. Since she reached her majority no more burning issue has Holland had than the question of wholesome Juliana's consort...
...Victoria's father; her beloved governess, the Baroness Lehzen; the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William; Lord Melbourne, whose wife had been Caroline Lamb, Byron's widely-publicized mistress; King Leopold of Belgium, who thought he could control England through his influence with Victoria and the Prince Consort; Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Tennyson, George...
ELIZABETH. EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA- Count Egon Corti-Yale University Press ($4). A sympathetic, frequently sentimental life of Franz Joseph's beautiful, neurotic consort. Skillfully told, carefully documented, it should provide a mine of anecdote for specialists in court gossip...
...Victoria's Prince Consort Albert who put the Duchy of Cornwall into profitable shape at a time when its copper mines, with those of Devonshire, produced one-third of Europe's supply. Now the profitable veins have largely run out. There remain a fine fish and oyster business, some mines and quarries, farmlands and a huge piece of South London. These monies go directly to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in London's Buckingham Gate, only 200 yards from the back door of the Palace. The new King and Admiral Halsey may sometimes be seen...