Here's a character type for those who want another option when it comes to characters connected to Faerie besides changelings and the Summer and Winter Knights.  

Human Prince of Faerie

Between the two great Faerie Powers of Winter and Summer there are many fae who hold alleigance to neither, but instead remain wyld.  Some choose to follow a powerful member of their own kind, such as the Erlking, while others group together in bands, tribes, and other loose affiliations.  And sometimes, on very, very rare occasions, a mortal (not necessarily a Pure one) impresses a group of wyldfae so greatly through acts of valor, cunning, or kindness to their benefit that they choose to make him or her their lord, and formally pledge their fealty to him.

Musts: A Human Prince of Faerie must have a High Concept that refers to his station as a Prince of a group of wyldfae.  Tied to this High Concept is the acceptance of feudal obligations and responsibilities to his vassals.
A Human Prince of Faerie must also take the Faerie Crown Item of Power (seen below).  Indeed, it is a Faerie Crown, forged by his vassals and attuned to him upon his coronation, which makes an individual a Prince of Faerie.  Thus, no aspect besides the High Concept is needed to refer to it.

All Human Princes of Faerie possess the following powers derived from their station:

Faerie Crown [Item of Power]
     One Time Discount [+2]
     Indestructible [+0]
     Glamours [-2]
     Supenatural Recovery [-4]
     The Catch: Cold Iron [Easily Accessible +2; Specific Research Material Necessary (not everyone is aware humans can become    
                                     Princes of Faerie) +1]

Final Cost [-1]
    
Options:  A Faerie Crown basically channels the Power of Faerie into its Prince, enhancing his vitality (prolonging or restoring his youth and health, as well as allowing him to recover rapidly from any injuries) and enabling him to wield one of the most fundemental abilities of Faerie, Glamours.  These are the most basic benefits of being a Prince of Faerie.  Depending on the indvidual Prince's natural affinities and/or the type of wyldfae he leads, he may be able to learn to use the Power that comes with his station to manifest other abilities.  Among the most common are the following:
Worldwalker [-2]
Incite Emotion (usually Awe) At Range [-2]
Inhuman or Greater Speed [-2 or Greater]
Inhuman or Greater Strength [-2 or Greater]
Inhuman or Greater Toughness [-2 or Greater]
Sponsored Magic (Wyldfae Subjects): The benefits varies depending on the nature of one's subjects, but always includes the ability to
      summon one's subjects at evocation speed.  Any Debt accumulated is not owed to individual subjects, but to Compel a Prince to
      fulfill his feudal responsibilities and obligations to his subjects.
Marked By Power: Appropriate for a Prince who had managed to grow his principality large enough, or whose wyldfae subjects are
      particularly potent.  It basically denote not that the Prince has a powerful entity behind him so much as that he represents the power of a
      potent "nation" of fae.
Demense: Most Princes start out by earning the fealty of a group of wyldfae who frequent the material realm, but it may be possible for a Prince to later
      develop this power by having his subjects claim a portion of the Nevernever as territory.

Important Skills:  Presence or some other social skill to inspire loyalty and devotion in one's vassals is always a good thing to have.  Discipline or Deceit would be important if one intends to use their Glamours effectively.  Some sort of combat ability, either mundane or magical, would be useful as one might need to come to the defense of a subject or lead one's principality in war.  As a human, one thing a Prince would definitely be called upon to do is act on his subjects behalf when their concerns intersect with matters in the mortal world, meaning Contacts and Resources could come in handy.

Minimum Refresh Cost: -1

So would I be correct in saying the general consensus is that using magic to accelerate Recovery from a consequence is, at best, contraversial, but the idea that magic could be used to alter the nature of a consequence without actually affecting the rate of Recovery pretty much is well within the spirit of the rules?

Why can't magic "Heal" consequences? For instance mend a "Broken Leg" severe physical consequence. its MAGIC goddammit, it should be able to do such things. I woulden't make it easy of course (Probably a 6 shift evocation or thaumaturge spell). After all if Queen Mab could heal Dresden of his broken back, then certainly magic can cure consequences.

It's not that MAGIC can't "heal" consequences.  It's just that mortal magic can't speed the recovery of consequences.  Or at least, that's what the rules say in regards to the types of magic that PC's could potentially have access to using.  Queen Mab is basically beyond stats and not bound by such limits.

So I take this statement as the "rule 0" answer:
Basically, there are setting components which are fairly cut and dry, no mater how much someone wants to circumvent it or create the special snowflake character who is the exception to the rule:
Wizards hex tech and must thereby go without many modern conveniences.

The first part of this statement is true, but I do not think the second part inevitably follows from the first as far as canon is concerned.  We've seen at least two means in the books by which wizards can, while not eliminate hexing from their lives entirely, mitigate its impact at least temporarily.  The first is seen in Death Masks, in which Harry uses a spell to suppress his hexing.  It doesn't work as well as he hoped but there are mitigating circumstances in the situation, and Harry has admitted he's not as great at control as other wizards.  The second means was seen in Dead Beat, in which we saw Butters use an advanced GPS device within close proximity of Harry, which was able to operate normally thanks to being insulated from any stray magic via a circle.

Both of these examples show that while technology hexing is a problem wizards have to cope with, it is not necessarily a totally insurrmountable problem.  Now, to be sure, wizards are always going to be hampered somewhat dealing with high tech and won't be able to enjoy its benefits as well as vanilla mortals or less powerful practioners.  But there are methods available so that they might be able to utilize technology under some some circumstances if they are willing to expend the time, effort and resources to do so.

Wizard goes out for a day, and gets someone like Butters to set up a computer with sophisticated voice recognition software - both audio output and a large screen.  Afterwards, the Butters-alike circles around the whole set, screen and all.  The wizard never touches the computer, and never crosses the line holding out magical energies.  They can however speak their input, because their voices are just sound.  They can't use drives and things, but the computer itself is theoretically doable.

If a wizard has enough money, no need to even do that  Just pay a live-in clued-in mundane assistant whose to sit at a computer and control it and any media systems linked to it for the wizard.  All the electronic equipment would inside a circle, so insulated from stray magical energies.  As long as one has a big screen everything is golden.  The only hassle would be lowering and raising the circle everytime the live-in tech goes to take a break or his shift is over.

A similar solution works for a wizard who wants some of the convenience of a cellphone.  He can simply have a clued-in mundane personal assistant (or friendly non-hexing supernatural) follow him around with a cellphone that's turned off.  When he wants to make a call, check his voicemail, or text someone, he simply draws a circle around his personal assistant, who then could safely turn on the phone and do it for him.  The personal assistatant could even put a call on speakerphone so the wizard could directly participate in a phone call without breaking the circle.

And as an added bonus, Wizard's Personal Tech Assistant makes for a great concept or aspect for a fellow PC. 

Blood In The Water - Whatever the reality, the one who has suffered this social consequence in battle is seen as weaker and more vunerable than he was previously thought to be.  Enemies who were biding their time now perceive an opportune moment to move against him, while subordinates who were kept in line by intimidation may openly defy him or even attempt to usurp his position as leader.

@JayTee: god, that is good!

i can see my players getting drafted into that war, at first believing it some sort of fun - hey it's ronald mcdonald vs. the burger king! what harm can be done? - then finding out that the threat is very serious. [insert you dark plot with threatening consequences here.]

Would be interesting to see the Sponsored Magic they provide.