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

BBC: The Netherlands' love and respect for Beatrix

For all of the attention that Masako receives, she can never be more than the emperor's consort.

CNN: IN HER OWN RIGHT

Queen Beatrix'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

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.

BBC: Archaeologists find Friedrich Engels' club

Given recent volcanic events, perhaps news networks can find respite in A Broken Consort's meditations on nature.

NPR: A Broken Consort: Landscapes As Music

Truth be told, the difference between A Broken Consort and Skelton's solo projects can be difficult to distinguish.

NPR: A Broken Consort: Landscapes As Music

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

ECONOMIST: In Kate Middleton the royal family has made a good hire

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

So, Saturday morning, a team of scientists and veterinarians artificially inseminated the Smithsonian National Zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang, after determining that she and her male consort Tian Tian had "no competent breeding" overnight, according to a statement from the National Zoo.

CNN: Giant panda gets artificially inseminated