Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...
...Consort. Albert was the only modern precedent* for the role Philip would play in British life. Although he had no constitutional power of his own, Albert exercised enormous influence over British politics by patiently and studiously advising Victoria. A royal husband, he wrote, "should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife. He should aim at no power, shun all contention and continuously and anxiously watch every part of the public business in order to assist and advise...
Whether, like Albert, Philip would live up to these words; whether, like Albert, he would become Prince Consort in title as well as in fact were questions for the solemn future. For the moment, most Britons were content with the romantic present. "Ain't he just the answer," cooed a Bradford woolworker over Philip last week. "Me an' 'erbert's gettin' married abaht October...
...Four of Britain's five reigning queens have been married. Mary Tudor's husband, King Philip of Spain, was styled both King Consort and King of England. He left Mary after a year and after her death sent the Armada to make war on her half-sister Elizabeth. The second Mary's husband, Prince William of Orange, was an heir to the British throne in his own right and ruled equally with his wife. Prince George of Denmark, who married Queen Anne, had no British status, except as the Queen's husband. Victoria's Albert...
Philip as future Prince Consort, and expects the announcement any day now. It may come on her birthday...