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...

Would anyone be interested in a Random Royal of the Day? Quite often this thread has sent me down a Wikipedia hole and I've discovered all sorts of royals I'd never heard of, who lived lives of scandal and intrigue!

🙋🏼‍♀️ To random Royal of the day, good idea Queen

Random Royal of the Day sounds fab.

Just occasionally I fantasise about a life whereby the children are simply presented to me - fed, clean and ready to spend a couple of quality hours together - then whisked away when we enter the Witching Hour and they start to get grotty. I would then waft upstairs and place a light kiss on the forehead of my sleeping children and retire to the library for a whisky and a long night reading in front of the fire.

Essentially, an upper class, Victorian husband

Not all the time - but sometimes it must be lovely to have numerous full time nannies to help with the grunt work of child rearing

OlennasWimple oh that does sound lovely

Edited to add: but I would miss my sweet girl too much

Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway is 13 today!
Pictured with big sis the future queen; Princess Ingrid Alexandra

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Sverre-Magnus (who I'll forever think of as the Dabbing Prince) has a real look of Mette-Marit whereas Ingrid is more like Haakon.

Oh yes please to random royal.

My Random Royal of the Day is Lennart Bernadotte, who was born a prince of Sweden (his grandfather was Gustaf V, the current king's great-grandfather) but gave up his title when he made a morgantic marriage in the 1930s.

Gardening was his great passion. Harmless enough, I hear you say, but he caused quite the scandal when he left his (presumably long-suffering) wife in the 70s for a woman 35 years his junior (who was younger than all his 4 children) and proceeded to have 5 more children with her! There was an age gap of almost 50 years between his oldest and youngest children. The count only died in 2004 at the age of 95.

His son must've been a chip off the old block as he's currently on wife number SEVEN!

Gosh CurlyWurlyTwirly Princess Ingrid Alexandra is stunning!

good article in the Irish Independant. It implies the whispers are coming from courtiers as a warning to Meghan "we've been through diva shit before, we won't take it from someone who won't even be bloody Queen"

I read that as well. They don't want another superstar in the royal family.

Surely there are kinder ways of going about sending that message, even if it is defensible, than snidely and publicly attacking her, especially many months later and while she is pregnant.

Sverre-Magnus (very pleasing name, but not as pleasing as Mette-Marit) looks like he’s still wearing glasses from the children’s section and needs to upgrade to larger frames

If K and W ARE going to be spending Christmas at Sandringham, why is Carole mentioning that the children will all have their own christmas trees in their rooms at her house, and how lovely it will be for the whole family to be together? It's very puzzling.I don't think anyone really knows. Usually they alternate between families and since they were at Sandringham last year, I imagine they will be with the Middletons this year. Next year Meghan will have a baby so it would make more sense for them to do Sandringham next year, especially since Pippa is a new mother.

people.com/royals/carole-middleton-prince-george-princess-charlotte-christmas-trees/

Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway is 13 today

Fascinating photo; I couldn't believe he's only 13

Then again, he has one of those faces that'll probably look just the same at 40 ...

Queen Letizia today

Hmm not my favourite Leti dress...

Ingrid Alexandra has the look of Kate. Different eyes but similar smile and dimples. Bearing in mind she’s only 15 years old, she’s going to be stunning as a grown woman.

Wow, she’s actually only 14 years old. Here she is showing William & Kate round during she is so confident. ( commentary in Norwegian!)

Lovely photo montage of Haakon & Mette-Marit and their beautiful family

I was just thinking yesterday that MM's family have been quiet for an awfully long time. But I see her half-sister has recently tweeted. I don't follow her.

Ingrid Alexandra has the look of Kate.

Much more the look of Mette-Marit, I think.

It’s in French if anyone is feeling adventurous but from Princess Grace to Charlene

This is worth watching - very relaxed with the interviewer. Can’t see anyone in the UK RF being this laid back.