Word: consorts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes, such impudence ... as you and I like." After a certain amount of impudence among notables like the Fairfaxes, his patrons, the young war veteran settled down with the widowed Martha Custis, then 27 (two children by her first marriage, none by her second). Said Washington: "With an agreeable consort for life ... [I] hope to find more happiness in retirement than I ever experienced amidst a wide and bustling world...
Queen Juliana's consort is accused of pocketing payola, and the unsubstantiated charge prompts fevered speculation about the future of the 400-year-old Dutch royal house. In Spain, as Juan Carlos stumps the boondocks as tirelessly as a Castilian Jimmy Carter, the young King's every word and move merit Delphic scrutiny. Britain's Prince Charles dates a new girl, and her bloodline is examined as closely as a yearling filly's. Monaco's 19-year-old Princess Caroline keeps squads of paparazzi employed...
...Germany, the prince met and charmed the plain but sweet-tempered Princess Juliana, Queen Wilhelmina's only child and the heir to the Dutch throne. Renouncing his German citizenship, Bernhard married Juliana the following year and took the title Prince of The Netherlands, rejecting the traditional term prince consort which, he complained, was "the utmost in male abominations...
...cooked up a few plot devices in an effort to give the tale some grit and human motivation, and comes dangerously close to melodrama. About halfway through the film we learn that Sarastro, High Priest of the Temple, was once the Queen of the Night's consort, is actually Pamina's father, and has snatched her from her mother's clutches out of paternal concern for her own good. According to the original text this is all wrong. The High Priest is traditionally a somewhat remote cult figure; here he has become a gentle, tender-eyed parent--the sort...
...Renaissance Consort 8:00 Eliot House Library, B-entry...