Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give him precedence next to the Queen, when he is with her. When he is not, he ranks merely as the Duke of Edinburgh, behind archbishops, all other members of the royal family, and all other Dukes of the Realm...
...servant, was spared the experience of school .by a succession of royal tutors. But Philip, a relatively impoverished princeling, was reared like a commoner, has washed dishes, fired boilers, even played on a skittles team organized by the owner of a local pub. As husband to the Queen, he has literally brought the world to his wife's door, and opened that door wide on the world itself. Artists, writers, businessmen and even trade unionists who would have been shown the back door in Queen Victoria's day now lunch regularly at Buckingham Palace...
With a naval officer's knowledge of engineering and an amateur's enthusiasm for science, Philip has poked his head into factories and laboratories, has surprised and pleased workers and scientists with his knowledgeable questions (as the Queen stood by with often ill-concealed impatience). He speaks extemporaneously when he feels moved to it, does not hesitate to criticize, once told a group of industrialists tartly: "I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men. If we are to recover prosperity, we shall have to find ways of emancipating energy...
...reigns of King George V and King George VI achieve their resplendent success by very different means. But the new style of monarchy shows the vitality and adaptability of the ancient institutions; it suits the uncommon gifts and energies of the dynamic man who is now at the Queen's side; and, most important of all, it happily meets an urgent need...
...Consort. More than almost any other public office in all the world, the job of consort to a reigning Queen is what its holder chooses to make it. The vast, amorphous amalgam of protocol, precedent, precept and law which is the British constitution contains no passages outlining a consort's duty. Most of the consorts who preceded Philip did just what they chose. With a prosperous kingdom of his own, Philip of Spain only occasionally visited the British realm of his wife Mary Tudor, who reigned from 1553 to 1558. Methodical William of Orange (1689-1702), declaring firmly that...