Queen Beatrix's consort Prince Claus suffered from severe depression for years and felt constrained by his role.

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Queen Juliana's consort Prince Claus suffered from severe depression for years and felt constrained by his role.

CNN: What Dutch 'bicycling monarchs' can teach world's royals

The club, named after Queen Victoria's German consort Prince Albert, was founded for Manchester's community of middle class Germans involved in the cotton trade.

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The Queen's Consort, Prince Claus, suffered from depression and died in 2002, at the age of 74.

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It was when Queen Victoria decided, 17 years after her marriage to her cousin Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to appoint him Prince Consort and to consult him fully about the matters of state that she had to deal with as sovereign.

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In 1861, Prince Albert, consort and husband of Queen Victoria of England, died of typhoid at Windsor Castle.

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The wife of a British King is automatically his Queen Consort - as, incidentally, Prince Charles is only too well aware, despite Clarence House's attempts to suggest that Camilla will merely be "Princess Consort".

BBC: Philip the record-setting consort

The public has accepted Camilla, Prince Charles's former mistress, as his consort.

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