Royal style and gossip: monochrome Megs, colourful Kate, the whacky hats of Max

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Link to the previous thread, which was fast filling up!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/3394928-Royal-Style-and-Gossip-The-Sussexes-Down-Under-Meghan-is-glowing?msgid=82047922#82047922

The extracts I've read about Harry aren't too bad. It sounds like his relationship with his father has improved since the advent of Meghan.

It's William who won't be happy with it. If he and Charles already have a fractious relationship then this won't help!

I think it's jealousy, pure and simple. He's a petulant, jealous man when it comes to the media yet seems to be a decent human being in private - very odd.

Kate is so beautiful! I love all but a handful of her maternity looks. Prince Philip looks exceptionally frail in one of the photos taken at the beginning of this year. I guess he’s 97 now isn’t he?

What is PC’s problem, honestly!

I guess PC has essentially been told you're going to have a really important job and he's now 70 and still no sign of getting the job!!! That has to be frustrating.

Plus he knows his kids are more popular and some would rather they did the job. I'm sure William is shitting himself; he could end up being King quite young.

PC probably listens to advice from no one or is surrounded by sycophants.
He thought the book would be a good PR exercise in the rehabilitation of himself and Camilla as his Mum is getting quite frail and he wanted the public onside for his coronation.
He comes across as petulant and egotistical.

Didn’t the Hanoverian kings always have an issue with their heirs? Maybe it’s a similar thing. It must be hard to know that your child can only get the top job on your death.

I think Kate did pregnancy beautifully on the whole but I particularly loved the Orla Kiely dress she wore Oct 16 2017 (at Paddington Station), and she just looked so damn happy that day, it was gorgeous look.

^ Also, I think her hair looks so much better slightly shorter and with the middle parting. Takes years off her. ^

They did, pretty much all of them really @IPromiseIWontBeNaughty. George VI was one of the few who had no trouble with his heir, although her choice of a penniless Greek prince as a husband must've raised a few eyebrows!

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I love Kate. She will always be my no.1 Duchess
She has turned making things look effortless into an art form

Agreed!🙂

I'm mentally writing William's AIBU right now!

I love how besotted Kate is with Louis. George belongs to The Crown. Charlotte half does because she's the spare. But Louis is all Kate's! (I mean this in a nice way).

Those articles give the impression that Charles is miserable - still waiting to do the job he was born to do when he's well past retirement age, sons aren't that bothered with him, wife lives elsewhere most of the time. I'd feel
sorry for him but he isn't helping himself!

Does he not live with Camilla Queen?

Yes he does and he seems to be pretty content.

A ‘Royal who wore it better’ featuring this comparison
www.townandcountrymag.com/style/fashion-trends/g13040700/royals-wearing-same-outfit/
Found in the link above to Kate’s maternity wardrobe

Charles and Camilla spend a lot of time apart. Apparently she prefers to be at Ray Mill House, where she can live a private life and see her grandchildren who Charles allegedly finds too noisy

This book is going to do nothing for the PC and it seems like it's trying to bring everyone else down with him. It's screams of pettiness from Meghan not knowing she should wear a hat so defying the queen. To william getting a hair cut to outshine Harry really.

I'm sure the boys to have a strained relationship with there dad at times given what has been said here about boarding so young and then splitting time between Charles and Diana. It's an odd childhood. But why he would want that shared with the world baffles me. I thought the relationship the 3 of the had was part of his redemption!

It just paints him like pp said as a spoilt egotistical overgrown child not what you want in a king really!

I don't think they 'live together' in the sense that most of us would mean -- I mean, technically they live at Highgrove and at Clarence House when they're in London, but she's held on to her own home fifteen or so miles away from Highgrove, and spends a lot of time there with her adult children and grandchildren visiting. When you think about it, it's probably a solution more people who marry in late middle age, and have different lifestyles, would choose if they could afford it.

I imagine that kind of thing will probably have to become more formal when Ch comes to the throne, which I imagine C is not wildly enthusiastic about...?

I love Meghan's style! It's fresh, unpredictable (unlike Kate's), and seems to be very much her choice. I also love her freckles!

@QueenOfTheAndals - I think Bertie and Elizabeth would have had less of a problem had Philip been a penniless Greek Prince. The problem in 1947 was that his family were Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glucksberg! A bit too German. Then there was the problem of who his brothers in law were. Although old Queen Mary did say "he's the kind of Greek I like, being one eighth Danish and seven eighths German"!

I like that comparison link @AhoyDelBoy

I cannot believe how polished Kate looks compared to the other royals.
The only comparable ones are CP Mary of Denmark and Maxima.

Charlene of Monaco looks good —but sad, as usual—

Well yes @Clionba, he had no Greek or Danish blood of course. Even Queen Margarethe hasn't any Danish blood, and nor do her heirs!

True! But I think being German and marrying Elizabeth just after a terrible war was quite a step. There was very, very strong anti German sentiment, the rubble was still piled up from the Blitz. Presenting him as "Greek" was a bit more acceptable. It still worried the King and Queen.

Oh I'm sure. Also it might've reminded people that Bertie himself had no English blood!

I like this dress, I couldn’t imagine Kate in this