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...House of Windsor itself. As reigning Kings lost their real power, they had to find other reasons for the monarchy's existence. Queen Victoria, who ascended the throne in 1837, settled on an answer that has come back to haunt her descendants. Along with Albert, her beloved prince consort, she buttressed her sovereignty with the admonition that the royal family would set by example the moral tone for the nation and the empire. Collective good conduct became a justification for authority and privilege. Duty, self-sacrifice, fidelity in service to the public weal and in Christian marriage were...
...separation became routine. In Charles' defense it could be said that the role of king-in-waiting to a robustly healthy mother while acting simultaneously as consort to a superstar formed the basis of a dour midlife crisis. The new book makes much of the prince's relationship with Camilla Parker-Bowles, 43, the wife of a brigadier who is himself a courtier, with the title of Silver Stick in Waiting to the Queen. Camilla is one of Charles' old flames, dating from his lengthy bachelor days, when he courted classy girls enthusiastically but did not propose...
...Each school can agree to distribute need-based scholarships unilaterally, but it can't decide to do that in consort with the group," said James Miller, director of financial...
...cannot trust dictators. Unfortunately, the U.S. has proven itself as willing to climb into bed with Assad's Syria as it was to consort with Pinochet's Chile, Marcos' Phillipines and even Hussein's Iraq. Nasty governments do not necessarily make inexpedient allies...
CHANT GREGORIEN (Harmonia Mundi). This collection of medieval liturgical songs, featuring the late countertenor Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort, illustrates the paradox of austere expression that is also voluptuous...