Royal style (and occasionally gossip): thread 3

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Here we go again!

I just watched the clip of her entering the building. The dress fits her very well. The photographer who published that terrible photo must not like H or M very much.

A slightly better look at the dress. I think it's just those ruffles that seem to hint at a uterine secret. She and Harry are off on an antipodean tour next month - the last thing she'll want is to be in the first trimester while travelling!

God, I love that colour and wish I could pull it off!

That's a better angle, QueenOfTheAndals. The colour really is great. How the heck does she walk on cobbles in those heels??

When did William turn into Prince Charles? He used to be the spit of Diana.

He was so handsome and like Diana in his twenties, but with each passing year he becomes more like Charles. How did he go from this to that??

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6140231/Meghan-dazzles-arrives-Harry-100-Days-P

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is she pregnant

Love the colour but the style is terrible on her.

Which makes me think she's preggo.

Re / William's lost looks

Dunno queen, must be all them shifts down the pit he's been doing lately

That dress does nothing for her at all, of all the dresses at her disposal and she picks that

Nice shoes though.

Lovely shoes and love the colour of her dress, but it doesn't fit and just makes her look shapeless.

William looks like a completely different person. Even if you compare the engagement photos from 2010 he's aged a lot more than you'd expect from someone in 8 years.

Turns out some people just really need a head of hair.

I don't think William enjoys having had to give up his helicopter job. He looks like a robot going through the motions these days. Harry also looks strained and like he'd rather be somewhere else at public appearances. They are preparing to take up all the slack now the Queen is so elderly. I don't know why it's always the young Royals not Charles and Camilla who seem to go to all the high profile things. After all, the yoke is going to fall on Charles not the younger generation. They ought to have a chance to enjoy their lives out of the limelight and do 'civilian ' jobs until Charles pops his clogs.

William doesn't look happy but Harry always seems very engaged with whoever he's meeting. He looks very happy since his marriage too.

Anyway it's hardly working 24/7 down the mines!

I love the dress and shoes but MM is an actress and tiny, not a fashion model so will have a different look in clothes.

So basically light if Charles lives as long as his mother that means possibly 30 plus years from now for William and Harry to be out of the limelight whilst being paid for by the public, I don’t think that would work somehow.......

If Harry and Meghan have kids, do they get to be called prince or princess? I can't remember if the queen had to convey the titles on the Cambridge kids or if they were automatically entitled to them.

Unless the Queen Issues new Letters Patent, Harry and Meghan's children will be Lords and Ladies while the queen lives. When Charles becomes king, they will be princes and princesses.

George had the title of Prince under the existing letters patent. The Queen had to issue new orders for Charlotte and Louis to be HRHs and princess and prince.

The only precedent for it is the queen's father and uncle who were born when their great-grandmother was still alive. They were princes from birth but that may have been due to letters patent.

I'd hope that Harry would look critically at the difference between his cousins the York sisters and Zara & Peter before he and Meghan decide to accept titles for any children they have.

The children of George V were born when different rules applied. The current situation regarding royal titles is governed by the Letters Patent of 1917 which provide that the title of prince or princess is limited down the line as far as the grandchildren of the sovereign in the male line, except that the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales has the title of prince. The Queen extended that to all of the children of the eldest son of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales.

So if these rules had applied to Queen Victoria's grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the Queen's uncle who became Edward VIII would have had the title Prince, but not the others while Queen Victoria was alive.

Sorry, I should have said if those rules were applicable when the children of George V were born, absent the amendments the present Queen made in advance of Charlotte's birth.

The dress seems to cling to her in all the wrong places. If she is pregnant, she wouldn't 'show' until about six months if other slim public figures are anything to go by, and if she was four or five months pregnant, BP would have announced it surely?

Why do the men of the RF walk with one hand pressed against their jackets all the time? I know it is etiquette but I have never seen anyone do it in real life.

Love the colour but the ruffles don’t do her any favours shape wise. If she was pregnant (which I doubt) then kudos to wearing those heels!