Royal style & gossip: more gowns, less frowns

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Link to previous thread.

And once again, let's keep this good-spirited. Spiteful comments are about as welcome as Fergie at Prince Philip's birthday party!

Mette Marit must have lost a bet. She's always done the "Heidi From the Alps As A Haus Frau" look but that thing is taking it too far. It looks bloody flammable.

As they’ve taken to not announcing her engagements now, I think we will only know when the baby is due when they start cordonning off the road opposite the Lindo wing. I think she’s just poppers early and it’s an April baby.

I’m liking the dress and it’s good to see her, but I’m going to have to go against the grain on Meghan’s hair. To me it looks as if she’s scraped it back while doing her makeup then forgotten to do it properly. I don’t think the hair goes with the gown. Sorry! 🙈

Curly the oPers are claiming she’s having a home birth. Probably complete rubbish of course. It would avoid the necessity to appear on the steps a day afterwards looking AMAZING though!

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I'm not keen on the dress but am not a fan of the one shouldered look.

No the hair is very couture, to show off the dress. Rosamund Pike is the same.

I can’t belshed be allowed to have a home birth. I said in an earlier thread, or on this one; Harry wants every connection with his mum and I’m sure he’d want the baby born at the Lindo, where he was born.

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How cool is this gif

Love MM dress, and as always her makeup is spot on. The gif and the posing for photos with her hands on her bump feels a bit too Hollywood for me. She does look in her element though.

I just can’t get my head round the bump holding.

It is VERY affected 🙄

I never see women in the queue at Sainsbury’s cradling their baby bump like this so no I don’t think it’s ‘natural’ like a pp said.

The bump holding is absolutely cringe worthy.

I think MM looks fabulous!

The bump holding is ridiculous. Does she imagine she is Mother Earth?

The bump holding is the same as her fiddling with her hair. It's completely understandable and really not something to get worked up over. She just isn't as disciplined as DofC because she hasn't been doing this for as long.

The dress is beautiful. Who is the designer?

Designer is Givenchy.

The two arm bump hold is a bit OTT.

She does like her high end labels doesn't she!!!! It's almost a shame that she isn't working with a broader range of designers. Fashion is a notoriously difficult industry which is extremely fickle. She looked really good so I don't blame her for sticking with what she knows will flatter her. I'd love to see her in Vivianne Westwood.

As for the bump holding can we please stop. She has had to endure the worst shit storm of media since the 'Duchess of Pork' which has been just as unrelenting. She is new to the job and she is going to make mistakes. She probably had no idea that her movements are extremely distracting and move focus away from others to her. I'm sure she will learn from this.

It looks as if the Monaco twins had a princess and superhero party to celebrate their birthday. Sweet children. They look like best pals.

Wrt Princess Anne 'getting on with the job' and the lack of publicity - maybe this is a dim question and maybe I have lived in the States too long... but is it considered a great and good thing that she toils away for her charities with little or no publicity and if so why the heck is this the case? Surely publicity is what charities need, so that people will donate £££?

Oops! Missed a page and x-posted a bit there...

As PM Mrs May represents all the people of Britain, she is the embodiment of our democratic system. It should be William bowing to her!

Actually, the PM (along with her government) is the embodiment of the Crown in Parliament. She curtsies as a mark of respect for the source of her status.

The British democratic system is a very strange beast. Power derives from the Crown to Parliament, not up from the people to Parliament.

I think D of Sussex looks fab in latest pictures. And if she wants to cradle her bump, more power to her. She is an older first time mother and may just be enjoying the whole thing and not thinking her reaction to her pregnancy is a matter of public scrutiny.

I loved how the Duchess of Cambridge looked in pregnancy - the extra weight really suited her especially in her face. But basically she could have passed for not pregnant for most of her pregnancies. It is nice to see Dof Sussex showing clearly pregnant like most of us do (my sis was like Catherine Cambridge - I wasn't - we were both very slim)