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This set of furniture was, therefore, certainly not made for a reigning monarch or consort, as has usually been assumed.
Queen Victoria, her consort Prince Albert and the Royal children lined a balcony of Hull's premier hotel and waved to the crowds of children below dutifully singing the National Anthem.
It is one thing to live life as a movie star, under the constant glare of one kind of spotlight and restrictions in one's private life but quite another to be the consort of a reigning Prince and representing the citizens of an entire nation.
To keep it manageable, readable and above all, entertaining, I've confined myself to reigning British monarchs only, not their various consorts and children; saving a few mostly present-day exceptions.
The couple have carefully sidestepped the issue; when he ascends the throne, she will be known as the princess consort.
He had lost a fine wife, an elegant consort, a selfless companion.
In 1820 George IV's attempt to divorce his consort led to the royal family's dirty linen being washed in the courts.
Ceremonial royal funerals are for those members of the Royal Family who hold high military rank, for the consort of the sovereign and for the heir to the throne.
As Queen Anne's consort, Prince George would have felt very much at home with Dahl's portraits of court ladies.
Then he could ransom the princess back to the Queen Mother and her consort.
Apart from the reign of William III, consorts of monarchs have had no constitutional significance whatsoever.
To think that the absence of the monarch and her consort would mean so much less attention at the Guildhall is ridiculous.
As the wife of the president, Mary spent lavishly and entertained on the scale of a royal consort.
Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
If you wanted to be generous, you could explain away the Empress' comments by pointing to the fact that she is of a different generation, one where women played traditional roles and royal consorts dutifully obeyed centuries-old rules.
It was at this point that a North Malabar princess, the consort of the Chirakkal Raja, arrived for worship at the temple.
Three centuries later the history of Queen Adelaide again illustrated the importance of the role of the royal consort.
Queen Margrethe's consort, Prince Henrik, is French and very knowledgeable about culinary matters.
Years ago, on a Royal tour of Canada, the Queen and her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh stopped in Bumcrack, Sask., for a Royal visit and state dinner.
He was certainly closely acquainted with her before her marriage and, according to three 16th-cent. accounts, confessed to the king that she had been his mistress and was not fit to be a royal consort.