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

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QueenOfTheAndals · 29/11/2018 08:22

Link to previous thread.

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

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Paradyning · 01/12/2018 18:58

Looks lovely Want!

The thought of JC shagging that many women makes my skin crawl. Just shows you what power can do.
Wonder if he has 'issues' over the death of his brother.

QueenOfTheAndals · 01/12/2018 18:58

I suspect weekly facials and daily blow dries are key!

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QueenOfTheAndals · 01/12/2018 19:01

@Paradyning The article more or less says Felipe is nothing like that because Letizia would have his balls! It does seem the younger generation is more faithful. I think even the king of Sweden is rumoured to have had affairs. There is (or used to be) someone on this thread who lived there so they may know whether this is true or not.

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Paradyning · 01/12/2018 19:03

Oh I think he does have lots of affairs. Another one who makes my skin crawl!

beanaseireann · 01/12/2018 19:13

Rebecca English
and
Bianca London

are they two DMail reporters ?
Interesting surnames 

mathanxiety · 01/12/2018 19:37

The stories about MM are very interesting. I suspect PPs are right that there is a bunch of people very upset at the whiff of change, probably very appalled at the thought of an American - and a mixed race American at that - now a member of the RF. These are the sort of people who probably type with one finger, if they type at all, and think walkie talkies are the last word in tech. They are probably very resistant to doing things any way other than the way that is well within their comfort zones.

Sending emails at 5am is perfectly fine in the US - if you're up then get them out of the way and whoever they are for will have them ready and waiting whenever they get to their desks or their posts. If you're sending emails from the east coast to California recipients you don't wait until 8am CA time. I really don't understand the umbrage about early morning emails. Do people think they have to wait up all night to get one and then answer it as soon as it arrives?
Maybe people are used to getting to work and then having a few hours to do very little until the next higher up gets their act together.

I wouldn't be concerned on MM's behalf about the effect of all the negativity because, as pointed out, change is around the corner, and also because MM is an old hand at publicity and also a veteran of the university sorority environment.

BigGreenOlives · 01/12/2018 19:38

I see Geordie Greig has taken his Tatler years off Wikipedia Grin.

ElspethFlashman · 01/12/2018 19:52

Hasn't Camilla been going to the same salon for donkeys years? The woman who owns it is of similar age and she's been interviewed herself and just said they generally chat really normally about their grandkids.

Kate supposedly gets a spray tan at home in advance of an event where the arms and legs are gonna be out. Quite wise, a person's legs can look ghostly in flash photography (See Sophie, who doesn't) . Some people say it's once a week but I think that's absolute bollocks and normally she just slaps on the old St Tropez like the rest of us.

Sophie also does not seem to use a hairdresser for events or for Royal tours abroad. She should, she's not that great at doing it herself and she can afford it. And no one would begrudge it, given how much of a workhorse she is.

CP Mary has a proper official glam squad who have been regularly mentioned in the Danish press. She makes full use of them. She spends a lot of money on them.

Maxima also has a team but sadly her hairdresser never ever uses enough hairspray and Max has historically always looks a bit windswept and surprised.

Anne seems to not believe in doing ones eyebrows. Generational thing, the Queen doesn't either. She apparently uses Clarins make up almost exclusively.

There are several European royals whose appearance owes more to their surgeons than moisturiser, however.

ElspethFlashman · 01/12/2018 19:57

Re: the 5am emails. I would bet my bottom dollar that the real problem was people's alert waking them up at 5. I'll be honest, if my phone woke me up with an email and it was my boss, I'd be pissed off. Occasionally it wakes me up with DHL notifications but those are automated so I can't get annoyed. But then I get really pissed off when people WhatsApp at midnight too. Fuck off, I'm sleeping!

But then I never ever turn my phone off in case there's an emergency or something.

But I imagine I'm not at all alone in that, and for us types, it's just inconsiderate not to wait until working hours in case someone is disturbed by the noise.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 01/12/2018 20:04

Princess Charlene takes her twins to the Rugby 7s
I forget she is South African!

QueenOfTheAndals · 01/12/2018 20:06

But you can always turn email and text notifications off overnight. In case of emergencies there's always an actual phone call!

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Paradyning · 01/12/2018 20:09

I live that outfit and the red lip on Charlene. She needs to stop with the surgery though. It's getting a bit too much now.

QueenOfTheAndals · 01/12/2018 20:11

The Monaco twins are adorable. But Charlene always looks Prozac-ed to the eyeballs.

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OlennasWimple · 01/12/2018 20:13

Never complain; never explain

A press statement wouldn't help any of the silly stories (especially givne the likely provenance of a number of them)

OlennasWimple · 01/12/2018 20:16

I said on a previous thread, and still stand by it, that I imagine the "MM is throwing her weight around" stuff is purely down to a difference in transatlantic customs

I can see Kate saying to the people who look after her clothes "I tried a few dresses on earlier and left them on the bed. Could you please put them away?"

But Meghan might say "I tried a few dresses on earlier and they're on the bed for you to put away."

One sounds abrupt to the British ear; one sounds patronising to the American ear.

OlennasWimple · 01/12/2018 20:18

I always forget that Max is South American - which would explain why she has (apparently) had some work done. (I've got a number of Latina friends, who swap phone numbers for cosmetic surgeons and openly talk about what work they are having when. I'm one of the few women in one social circle who has a natural bum and boobs)

mathanxiety · 01/12/2018 20:21

On an iPhone, I am pretty sure you can use the Do Not Disturb function to stop all but phone calls (and you can choose specific contacts or everyone on your list) and your alarm.
help.apple.com/iphone/10/#/iph3dd60e1f

You can turn off sound until X hour on many Android phones. There are priority options, time options. When you get up you can check all the alerts that have accumulated all night.

I regret not doing this last Sunday night/Monday when we had a blizzard here but the school district had alerted everyone the night before that they would make the call on school opening between 5 and 5.30 am. I duly received an email, a robocall on my cellphone and also on my landline at 5.15 am. So now I have disabled landline notifications from school completely as they are just duplicates, and also all cellphone sound all night. If any family members need to call me they will use the landline if there's an emergency. I realise not everyone has a landline though.

SenecaFalls · 01/12/2018 20:21

you can always turn email and text notifications off overnight

This is what I do.

I'm a night owl. So I will sometimes finish a draft of a document at 2 in the morning, and send it to whomever needs to review it. I don't mean for them to leap out of bed and get back to me right then. But it's there for them when they start their workday.

I've been doing this for years since the invention of email. Everyone I work with turns off email notification on their phones. I thought that was pretty standard, especially at night.

mathanxiety · 01/12/2018 20:27

I have always done this as my sister and I are 6 time zones apart. It's nice to wake up to a photo from her of daffies blooming in Dublin when all around me is frozen tundra.

TheSpottedZebra · 01/12/2018 20:42

I suspect that royal staff have to be contactable at all times in case of deaths emergencies, so they probably don't have the option to use the do not disturb function. So getting a text full of ideas at 5am may not be joyously welcomed.

CrookedMe · 01/12/2018 20:45

This thread is getting a bit weird; we're all speculating about someone we know almost exactly nothing about. We're getting as bad as the tabloids! Filling in the blanks based on little to no knowledge.

Can we get off of the insider cloak and dagger stuff and stick to the lighter side, which is what was making these threads so pleasurable?

SenecaFalls · 01/12/2018 20:49

Can we get off of the insider cloak and dagger stuff and stick to the lighter side, which is what was making these threads so pleasurable?

A few of us are just trying to stick up for Meghan. And it's not cloak and dagger; it is merely offering reasonable explanations for what is obviously being promoted in the British press as unreasonable behavior by her.

Paradyning · 01/12/2018 20:52

Warning DM link

Amelia Windsor joins Princesses Marie-Chantal and Maria-Olympia party
dailym.ai/2DU40xN

Just what is MO wearing?
Fergie looks fab though. She's always so smiley.

Want2bSupermum · 01/12/2018 21:04

I grew up with staff. There are a few rules which are not really talked about and they aren't too different to the rules of the workplace. First rule is that you don't ask someone who doesn't work directly for you to do something. You go to the person who works for you and ask them to complete the task.

Another big no no is to email instructions at 5am. The way our home was run, if you wanted something completed you invited yourself to the weekly meeting with the housekeeper. Other homes do it a bit differently but generally it's rude to email instructions before speaking to the housekeeper. The email is a follow up, not an instruction.

If you haven't grown up with full house staff you wouldn't know this is how it works. It's not like having a cleaner. It's entirely different and it's actually extremely easy to piss off everyone if you don't know how the household is run.

CurlyWurlyTwirly · 01/12/2018 21:10

Ok I followed the DM link.
Every outfit was horrid. Amelia Windsor, in her outfit on the street outside, looked like an actual clown from the waist down!

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