Royal style and gossip: tiaras galore and more!

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Special edition: Eugenie wedding thread
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And we're now at thread 8! Here are some useful royal style blogs
HRH Duchess Kate
Mad About Meghan
New My Royals - good for European royal watching

Coming up this month:

• The Cambridges are at the Tusk Conservation Awards on Thursday the 8th
• The Cambridges and Sussexes are at two Remembrance events this weekend the 10th/11th
• The Sussexes have the Royal Variety Performance on the 19th

Plus Prince Charles turns 70 on the 14th but we may not get photos of the event as he's having a private party.

They would be granted titles by Letters Patent, surely?!

New LPs were necessary to make Charles and Anne Prince and Princess while Elizabeth was the heir presumptive.

Also to make Louis a prince.

I love the dress Kate has on this evening, it's one of my favourites!

Been trapped at a work offsite and the thread has moved so fast.
Not sure about teal as an evening dress colour but Kate carries it off. I love Mary's white dress in Italy.
It was me who went to the Cartier exhibition in Canberra. It was completely fabulous.

Mary I was the closest a king's daughter came to being Princess of Wales in her own right. Henry VIII gave her some of the rights and properties associated with the title, and she was sometimes referred to as Princess of Wales, but she was never formally invested with the title. I think that if Henry had remained married to her mother, eventually Mary might have been created Princess of Wales.

@SenecaFalls Prince Eddy was a slightly dodgy character, so definitely not suited to Mary! I doubt he was Jack the Ripper though.

@QueenOfTheAndals - I think Seneca means Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

@Clionba ah I was replying to her earlier comment about Mary of Teck. This thread moves fast!

I posted about two Queen Marys. Teck and then Tudor.

Sorry, QueenOfTheAndals, you're right! It does move fast! Poor Mary of Teck, lumbered with Eddy, who was up to all sorts. She must have been relieved to end up with solid George!!

Solid and dull but probably better suited to be king than Eddy ever was!

Absolutely. There's a lovely story in the Ben Pimlott biography of Queen Mary, where she at George were at a museum of Modern Art - clearly not their thing. Perusing an unusual abstract painting he called over to her "Look at this one, May, it'll make you laugh!".

Yes, George V was a notorious philistine! There's a story about them meet

There's a story about them meeting a famous author (I can't remember who) and George told them he enjoyed their books. When it was Mary's turn she said "oh I love your books but the king only reads the most dreadful rubbish"!

Ha ha!! That's a great one! At least they weren't pretentious. I think actually the art anecdote was the Pope-Hennessy book (I've read that many!). Mary did have the most amazing jewellery collection. I love the jewels being referred to as "Granny's chips"!

She looks fab

She was also something of a kleptomaniac wasn't she?

Queen Mary, that is

Yes Albert was/ is married to Paola.
I don't think the younger Royals will put up with infidelity as so many of Kings' consorts did in the past.
I'd say Queen Sofia and her ilk didn't have it easy but then my PoV is if he's scr*wing someone else, I'm out.
Perhaps they went into marriage not expecting fidelity ?

YY to school run pics.

Evidently Queen Mary expected to be given things she admired in other people's homes to the extent that people who were expecting her visits would hide their favorite objects d'art until her departure.

I really like The Princess Royal title.
It is impressive and really suits Anne and her character.
I think Charlotte will grow up to also have a strong enough character to bear the title.

Re: if Eugenie had been male, a female spouse would be Princess Eugene; a bit like Princess Michael of Kent or Lady Frederick Windsor

That's true Seneca and Queen. She has an eye for expensive objects and would expect the host to gift them! She famously did it with a Persian rug which she ordered the servants to roll up and send to the Palace, with barely the consent of the owner!

I don’t think infidelity is a purely Royal “prerogative”. Loads of Aristocrats do it too.

I could see William being unfaithful in later years.
He is headstrong and self important enough, with a tight knit group of friends that he could get away with it.
I don’t think he would flaunt it, and Kate would always maintain the image.
He has too much form from his parents, and I don’t think William has done enough therapy on himself and needs the external validation.
Whereas, I can see a Harry being devotedly married for the rest of his life.

Kate stuck in traffic on the school run

The Kings Road traffic is awful