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New photos of the Duchess of Cambridge

73 replies

IReallyLikeCrows · 10/01/2022 16:44

I can't believe I'm even posting about this but here I am. This is not a post to lay into her but I saw the photos in various places yesterday and today - today on the Vogue website - and if I hadn't been told that they were photos of her I wouldn't have known who they were of rather than an attractive woman wearing some very elegant ballgown type things.

I was going to put this in chat but then realised that I wanted to know if it was just me who thought that she looked very different to how she usually does. This is so deeply unimportant that I'm half cringing while typing but it's been bugging me and I'm wondering why I think she looks so different.

YABU - she looks no different to usual
YANBU - I think she looks a bit different to usual too.

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PurpleRainlnTheSky · 10/01/2022 20:25

@IReallyLikeCrows

I voted YABU. She looks pretty much instantly recognisable as herself IMO. And let's face it, if the pics HAVE been doctored/photoshopped/filtered etc, it's hardly bloody unusual is it? EVERYONE does it. Including everyone on this thread.

She doesn't look different enough to make a demeaning thread on mumsnet about this. It's a bit petty, and has a whiff of jealousy about it...

@ireallylikecrows

I can't believe I am posting this..... This is so deeply unimportant to me that I'm half cringing while typing but it's been bugging me and I'm wondering why I think she looks so different.

Yeah sure. Wink That's why you posted it, because you DIDN'T want to post it. And it was soooooo unimportant to you. Hmm

You DID want to post it. At least own it! Urgh how I loathe these threads picking apart the looks of other women. And the wide eyed faux innocence like 'oooh I didn't want to post it REALLY' attitude is just nauseating. As I said, just own it. I'd have at least a fraction of respect for you if you did!

I agree with the last few posters, she is lovely looking, and absolutely stunning. Filtered or NOT filtered!

CloneAViralMess · 10/01/2022 20:38

I think she looks gorgeous. Our future queen 😊

TurquoiseDress · 10/01/2022 20:41

YANBU!

Can't put my finger on it

She just doesn't quite look like her usual look/self

PurpleRainlnTheSky · 10/01/2022 20:43

@CloneAViralMess

I think she looks gorgeous. Our future queen 😊
Yes indeed! And an amazing one she will be! Smile
TurquoiseDress · 10/01/2022 20:44

EVERYONE does not?

Er not me- I've genuinely no idea how to add a filter/photoshop or doctor photos!

All my Facebook books are genuinely photos of the raw me, and my kids too

Ok I'll head back to the last century now!Grin

PurpleRainlnTheSky · 10/01/2022 20:46

@TurquoiseDress

EVERYONE does not?

Er not me- I've genuinely no idea how to add a filter/photoshop or doctor photos!

All my Facebook books are genuinely photos of the raw me, and my kids too

Ok I'll head back to the last century now!Grin

OK then, many people do put filters and a bit of paint shop on their photos @TurquoiseDressur !!! BUT maybe not everyone! Grin
Liathroid · 10/01/2022 20:47

@CloneAViralMess

I think she looks gorgeous. Our future queen 😊
Things like this make me a bit 🤢 so you’re happy she will be queen because she’s good looking? Such a low bar for head of state. Luckily where I live we choose our head of state based on their qualifications, abilities and personality not how nice they look in a fancy dress.
JaneJeffer · 10/01/2022 20:52

They're so airbrushed she looks like a 20 year old!

JaneJeffer · 10/01/2022 20:54

And let's face it, if the pics HAVE been doctored/photoshopped/filtered etc, it's hardly bloody unusual is it? EVERYONE does it. Including everyone on this thread.
If? Grin
I've never photoshopped or used a filter in my life!

2DogsOnMySofa · 10/01/2022 20:54

I was wondering when someone was going to post about this. Well done op.

I too think they look lovely, just not really 'her' she looks far better and more natural in most of the media photos you see online

The one with the off the shoulder, ball gown in sepia colourings looks like something from a western film. Just very odd.

I loved some of the last photos of Diana by Mario Testiono, I was hoping for something like this for Kates 40th

Dibbydoos · 10/01/2022 21:03

Def fillers...!

I do wish women would stop with the fillers, they can cause all sorts of hideous side affects - seen do many women with droop eye!

sst1234 · 10/01/2022 21:06

It’s like that time Renee Zellwegger turned up to a movie premier and she looked like a different persons

IReallyLikeCrows · 10/01/2022 21:07

[quote PurpleRainlnTheSky]@IReallyLikeCrows

I voted YABU. She looks pretty much instantly recognisable as herself IMO. And let's face it, if the pics HAVE been doctored/photoshopped/filtered etc, it's hardly bloody unusual is it? EVERYONE does it. Including everyone on this thread.

She doesn't look different enough to make a demeaning thread on mumsnet about this. It's a bit petty, and has a whiff of jealousy about it...

@ireallylikecrows

I can't believe I am posting this..... This is so deeply unimportant to me that I'm half cringing while typing but it's been bugging me and I'm wondering why I think she looks so different.

Yeah sure. Wink That's why you posted it, because you DIDN'T want to post it. And it was soooooo unimportant to you. Hmm

You DID want to post it. At least own it! Urgh how I loathe these threads picking apart the looks of other women. And the wide eyed faux innocence like 'oooh I didn't want to post it REALLY' attitude is just nauseating. As I said, just own it. I'd have at least a fraction of respect for you if you did!

I agree with the last few posters, she is lovely looking, and absolutely stunning. Filtered or NOT filtered![/quote]
I'm not picking apart her looks. In fact, I said the photos were of "rather an attractive woman" which is what I would have thought if I hadn't known, from context, that they were her.

Obviously, to you, she looks instantly recognisable. To me and quite a few others here, it wasn't obvious at all, except for the side on photo which is obviously here and very lovely it is too. At no point have I said anything negative about her as a person or her looks. I am merely talking about the photos.

You may think that I was gagging to post this but I really wasn't. Obviously, I did post it because it was bugging that nowhere, where the photos were published, said anything about how different she looks in them and I thought I was going a bit mad. I knew that with lots of women here maybe I'd find out if it was just me and was relieved to find out that it wasn't just me. Phew and all that.

I didn't say it wasn't important to me, although it isn't important so much as sort of banging about in my brain. Last night my inability to remember the surname of the Cameroonian footballer from the 1990 world cup tournament - Roger Milla - was doing something similar. I could google that and did because I couldn't get to sleep. Stupid stuff? Absolutely. That's either 1. ADHD, 2. brain damage, or 3. Halfwittedness. Maybe 4. All of the above.

Look, I know someone saying "I can't even believe I'm posting this here" can be annoying and sorry and all that, but I couldn't believe I was doing it because I'm generally a tiny bit more serious than "does this photo look like her do you think?" stuff and also, very much also, I didn't want to come across as someone who was slagging another woman off because of the way she looks.

So, anyway, I've been very polite and all that. I think she's an attractive woman too. Never said otherwise. I annoyed you. Sorry. You have no respect for me and think my attitude is nauseating. Er, I think that's a little bit of an overreaction. More or less polite to the end.

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5128gap · 10/01/2022 21:07

@Dibbydoos

Def fillers...!

I do wish women would stop with the fillers, they can cause all sorts of hideous side affects - seen do many women with droop eye!

Where in the face would you have fillers that caused droopy eyes?
IReallyLikeCrows · 10/01/2022 21:10

@TurquoiseDress

EVERYONE does not?

Er not me- I've genuinely no idea how to add a filter/photoshop or doctor photos!

All my Facebook books are genuinely photos of the raw me, and my kids too

Ok I'll head back to the last century now!Grin

Same. I know that it's possible but don't know who to do it. As a result, there are very few photos of me recently because I feel as though I look like shit and while friends will always say "Oh no, you look lovely!" that's a case of "Bless you for saying that, but you're my mate so you would say that."
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Staffy1 · 10/01/2022 21:11

It looks enough like her to know it is her almost immediately. Her lovely smile is a giveaway and the one in which she is not smiling looks exactly like every other photo of her not smiling.

IReallyLikeCrows · 10/01/2022 21:12

@2DogsOnMySofa

I was wondering when someone was going to post about this. Well done op.

I too think they look lovely, just not really 'her' she looks far better and more natural in most of the media photos you see online

The one with the off the shoulder, ball gown in sepia colourings looks like something from a western film. Just very odd.

I loved some of the last photos of Diana by Mario Testiono, I was hoping for something like this for Kates 40th

She never looked better than she did in those photos. He totally caught something of the inner, silly, fun Diana in that photoshoot. They were just gorgeous.
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OhWhyNot · 10/01/2022 21:17

I think it’s the angle of the camera they are lovely but a bit too perfect

Her smile is slightly wonky and she juts out her chin. It’s quirky and attractive these photos don’t show that as it’s not perfect

ohfook · 10/01/2022 21:20

I'm not sure of Makeover 2000 was a thing everywhere in the early 00s or just in Newcastle. Basically a scam where you 'won' a free makeover and very questionably styled photoshoot then we're charged £50 a photo if you wanted to buy them.

This one is very reminiscent of the Makeover 2000 look.

New photos of the Duchess of Cambridge
kungfupannda · 10/01/2022 21:24

I didn’t recognise her when I saw the picture on a Twitter thread about the dress and I only clocked when the pictures popped up on my news feed later. She looks lovely, but like someone else entirely.

Phrenologistsfinger · 10/01/2022 21:26

It’s done on purpose so we talk about that and not about Andy’s legal troubles! Arch PR manipulation right there Hmm

MayLeaveADentInYourSofa · 10/01/2022 21:32

I thought it was a filter - her face looked so smooth with no colour.

Then I thought it was her eyebrows, something different about the angle of them.

Then I thought her face looked thinner / longer and wondered if she'd lost weight.

In other words, I noticed it too but cannot work it out.

Evanna13 · 10/01/2022 21:43

I don't think her natural warmth comes through in these photos.
To me she looks too cool/icy and her personality is not there.

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