Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other arrangements to be made. Philip, for instance, was comparatively poor and would need money. A Daily Worker cartoon showed Elizabeth complaining: "He won't take my money, father. He wants to live on his Navy pay." But in Manchester a working bus driver conceded: "I think the Royal Family gives us something other countries haven't got. I'm willing to pay for it." King George was expected to ask Parliament for ?35,000 a year for Philip. Elizabeth's own allowance (?15,000) would be upped. In time the couple would get their...
Throughout the royal tour Philip's picture stood on Elizabeth's dressing table. She wrote him three times a week. By the time she got home again, Prince Philip of Greece had become plain Lieut. Mountbatten, a British subject. The U.N. and the U.S. had taken on Britain's Greek headaches. The last objection to the match seemed to have been removed. Philip proposed formally, asked King George's consent, and the King gave it heartily...
...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...
...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 was the first to receive the title Prince Consort. It gave him social precedence over other members of the royal family, changed his political status...
...George's narrow white streets murmured. Harrington Sound's blue-green waters were vexed. Paget's vegetable patches and Somerset's coves were not as peaceful as they looked. The reason was an ad in the Bermuda Royal Gazette. It said...