Royal style & gossip: give us this day our daily tiara...

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Link to previous thread.

As always, let's try to keep it light and avoid all spite...

A pleasant article about fragrance in the wedding chapel (this is still kind of style and beauty, right?) which says Diptyque confirmed they provided the scents, and that candles and sprays were used. So this new story sounds just like more bollocks.

Just for a bit of cheer, how cute were WIlliam and HArry as very little boys?! I don't remember ever having seen this. It was a Christmas card from 1987

So now we have candlegate after tiaragate.
I am so fed up on Meghans behalf, I am going to boycott the DM

do you hear that @RebeccaEnglish

BE NICE TO MEGHAN

Curly that picture is adorable!
In all honesty, this nonsense could be ended. Now. Kate : "there has been no falling out, Meghan has not upset me"
William : "we have not fallen out with Harry and Meghan" . BP official : on behalf of HM, "the wedding stories have been exaggerated". All this needs to be shut down.

But the palace don’t usually comment. If they do that now, it means every time there is an issue they will need to comment or the press will have a field day. But someone somewhere has the knives out.

The problem with releasing a statement, they will have to do it every single time.
I suggest they just start releasing some photos. Christmas cards. Maybe Kate & Megs go to some Christmas charity.
Anyway the Queen is due to have her family lunch in a few weeks. Remember Princess Michael's hideous moor brooch. ?

It’s all a bit “storm in a teacup” isn’t it! However, it is relentless and a bit pointless really.

I know what you both mean, but I think this isn't an odd story that will go away, it needs to be addressed. A happy family pic or smiley Christmas card won't do it.
More strong measures?

Ha ha Curly!! I hear that HRH Marie Christine has "retired" her inappropriate brooch!

Re the stories about Meghan, let's look at what she's actually said and done, as opposed to what the tabloids say she's said and done.

In the period of her engagement she accompanied Harry to several official engagements - I don't recall any other royal fiancee doing as many.

Since her wedding, she's again proved to have a good work ethic - always has a smile on her face at events (though I realise some claim she's fake because of that ) and seems engaged with the people to whom she speaks, participated in the very succesful launch of the Together cookbook (last I heard it had raised about £250k for the kitchen) and gone on a long tour of Oz/NZ/the Pacific where she supported her husband in everything he did and gave a couple of very good speeches herself. And despite being in the tiring first early stages of pregnancy, she showed up at every event bar one.

She's had a few fashion faux pas, but what woman in the public eye hasn't?

I really can't see what there is to fault about that, the rest appears to just be hearsay.

Unfortunately, Missy, it's not just them, it's everywhere.

It's made its way to popular outlets in the US as well, but here the theme is more that those Brits are picking on our Meghan . . .again.

We don't have the same tabloid culture in the US (there are tabloids but they are pretty far out of the mainstream) so most people don't really understand the various agendas of different newspapers in the UK.

I've just looked up the Robert Jobson book about Charles. On Amazon the reviews are quite bad really.

I'm going to Bath soon. Online I saw that at The Fashion Museum there is an exhibition with royal women's fashion - does anybody know whether it is still on?

Carole Middleton’s dress is by Cefinn, the fashionlabel created by Samantha Cameron. Her velvet court shoes are by LK Bennett, like mother like daughter.....

Good post, Queen! And adorable photo Curly.

I've just finished reading Michelle Obama's fab book and she describes getting exactly some of the same types of criticism that Meghan is currently receiving. I follow the Oprah magazine's Instagram and they've done a few posts recently in support of Meghan, so I wonder if Oprah is acting as a sort of mentor for M (hence the appearance at the royal wedding). I like the idea of MO and Oprah being aunties to Meghan and sending her encouragement through all the criticism!

Exactly Queen - look at the actions.

There are a lot of assumptions, a lot of inferences and a lot of rumours flying about - and it seems a lot of people willing this woman to fail, or instantly willing to assume the worst about her and not give her a single inch or the slightest benefit of the doubt. It's not edifying to watch, frankly.

With regards to the way she may or may not treat the palace ‘staff’ she probably just has a different way about her than the died in the wool royals, which probably gets the MIGs backs up.

It's interesting to apply this criticism to a hypothetical man as well.

She's too bossy - he's assertive.

She's too friendly and smiley - he's down-to-earth and relatable.

She's too direct - he calls a spade a spade.

And then to look at some of the other stuff and reverse it - she smiles too much! If she didn't, she'd be called a misery, or accused of being snobby and up herself.

What it seems to boil down to is that she has committed the cardinal sins of being American, of mixed-race, confident, and having ideas. The horror! So she must be put into her place, quickly.

It's nasty, nasty, nasty.

I like the idea of MO and Oprah being aunties to Meghan and sending her encouragement through all the criticism!

Me, too. I'm also looking forward to reading Michelle Obama's book.

I do wish that KP or BP would issue a statement. I understand the rationale behind not doing so, but I think the situation is getting out of hand, and it has to be causing Meghan distress. Because of her pregnancy alone if no other reason, they should put some of the stories to rest.

Thanks @Gonegrey31. Cefinn has some nice pieces but I doubt we'll ever see any royal ladies in it despite the entire line being very Marklesque.

I agree, Seneca, it's getting out of hand, see my points above. It needs to be countered.

she smiles too much! If she didn't, she'd be called a misery, or accused of being snobby and up herself.

Very true! Look at how Victoria Beckham is always called miserable because she doesn't have a smile plastered across her face every time she steps outdoors.

I hope the rift stories are not true. The body language when Kate and Meghan are together doesn't seem very warm and friendly, but then as PP have said, they don't have to be best friends. OTOH I have SILs and I know of other SILs who understand the benefits of making an effort and keeping both sides of the family close.

I also know of SILs who just didn't get along because they were so different

I did think it was questionable of Kate though to wear such a light colour to Harry and Meghan's wedding. It looked almost white in the light, more yellow indoors.

I'm not sure if a statement is the best idea. Will people believe it?

In fairness no royal body language is particularly warm they aren't a publicly warm so I don't think there is a lot to read into there.

I agree whatever she does is wrong she emails staff at 5 bossy and demanding if she didn't get out of bed till 9 she would be lazy also well pointed out that if she were male it would be different.

And no I don't think a statement will do anything best way forward is like this week when Kate was happily chatting about Meghan and bubs actions will speak louder than words in the case.

In defence of staff members I think it’s a bit much to email workers at 5.00 am. Palace staff are notoriously badly paid.