Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...
...just about. But Princess O'Rourke, a pleasant enough comedy, offers one unusual shot-prim Olivia de Havilland in a bathtub scene. Miss de Havilland, a princess in search of a diplomatically and physically acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess...
Without ceremony or circumstance, 63-year-old Queen Wilhelmina marked the 45th anniversary of her coronation. In London the Queen spent a Hausfrau's day at home with her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard, took routine spins on her bicycle...
...Napoleon Bonaparte and married Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, whom Napoleon disliked but raised to the rank of a marshal. During a military crisis in 1809-10 Bernadotte was invited to become Sweden's Regent. In 1818 Bernadotte was crowned King and, with Désirée as his consort, founded the present Swedish dynasty...