Royal style & gossip: more gowns, less frowns

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

That makes sense. The poofiness of it is very early nineties.

What a lovely idea, CPV wearing her mother's dress.

It's stunning. It's nice to see them wearing stuff from the royal archive.
On the subject of "royal rules", Michelle Obama says in her book that she apologised to HM for breaking a rule by putting her arm around her. HM said there's "no such thing". I have an old book about the Queen from the late 50s. In one picture HM is wearing a stunning evening dress, and nail varnish that is distinctly pinky orange!

I really like the three block colours of CPV dress and the fact that it’s her mum’s!

'That time PH dressed as a Nazi....when going to a fancy dress party where the theme was evil people? That time?'

Just to put you straight here @Want2bSupermum the theme wasn't 'evil people', it was 'colonial'. I was there.

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Yes it does instantly make sense, doesn’t it.

And yes, I thought it was a lovely idea too, and it suits them both nicely.

Wasn't it a "colonials and natives" party? Even that title is But I guess everyone does stupid things in their youth that they now regret...

But if you think about it. Hitler wanted to conquer Europe if not the world, so wasn’t he a colonialist?

Yes but what a theme - it's mainly the "and natives" bit that I find . I mean who even uses that term these days? Whoever came up with it was clearly not the brightest!

Or a very non PC, sexist, racist aristo!! If you follow the Manners children on Instagram (Duke of Rutland’s DCs) you’ll catch a glimpse of the aristo way of thinking. And interesting clothes as well.

Well it's not mutually exclusive @Rhubarbisevil The Manners sisters are awful - spoiled, overprivileged and god knows how they're "models" as they're no beauties!

Queen I don’t think being beautiful is a requirement nowadays to model. More interested in connections and famous families, which is a shame because modelling, acting and music were ways working class kids with talent and looks could get on.

Can someone link to the Manners account on Instagram? I’m not sure how to find them. Thanks.

Found them!

I think casual racism about Africa is pretty common because even people who would be horrified to know they're racist aren't educated enough on the issues or on the way people are thinking about the issues in a modern way. It's particularly true I think of posh/wealthy people.

I did some work for Sadlers Wells years and years ago. I can't remember what the situation was but I think they were doing a show with an African connection. When I read the brochure, I was absolutely horrified. But when I tried to gently mention it to the people in charge they basically told me that I didn't understand how things worked in England and that these terms weren't offensive here. The fact that me, and the performers and the show were all from Africa didn't seem to make them question at all whether or not they might be slightly offensive.

Needless to say, that job didn't last long!

Bloody hell, those Insta feeds!

Not sure about the coat but love that photo Curly, thanks.

I love Camilla's coat. I kind of want it for myself.

Letizia has gone a bit boho again

Keira Knightly about to receive an OBE at BP.
She looks cut with the jaunty hat; but its not the best execution of a Chanel.suit that I've seen...

Fab colour on the Queen. Love the hat with the red feathers. At Lincoln's inn this morning

Lovely to see the Queen looking so happy, those colours are really zinging.

Love Leti's green dress!