Royal style and gossips: gowns and crowns but please no frowns!

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Just in the nick of time! Clothes and light-hearted gossip only please...

Did someone mention that they were going to Sandringham on Christmas morning? I hope they have their camera at the ready.
The lady who snapped W&K and H&M last year has made £40.000 from the photograph so far, enough to enable her to give up work for a year. She says that it has changed her life.

(Story on BBC News website)

YearOYR How lovely that you have DS home again. Kindest thoughts for a full recovery for him.

Now here's something to chew on......what relation is Lady Louise to the Russian Tzar, because I see a likeness to some of the family who were shot.

I saw the Royal train carriage in 2011 when the Queen visited my town with William and Kate.
I went into the city centre by train to see them and when I arrived it became clear that they were arriving by train so I stayed at the station to see them.
Afterwards I saw the Royal carriage which was a special carriage and looked quite different to the regular carriages.
This is my first post on the thread - I've read most of them but never had anything to add before!

She then developed bulimia

No she had it before. There was something about it on a previous thread, where during her engagement she had a big exacerbation of it, presumably from all the stress and scrutiny. I honestly can't remember the details, it was either herself of her sister who told the story. Maybe someone else can.

Her issues were long standing, bless her.

FYI Charles has a hunting lodge in Romania doesn't he? Harry has definitely used it, and I presume W too.

Didn’t Diana’s grandmother apologise to the QM saying that she’d known Diana had issues & probably should have made the RF aware of them?

Diana’s grandmother was a social climbing meddler.
She testified against her own daughter (Frances Shand Kydd) in her divorce from Johnnie Spencer (Diana’s father) and Frances lost custody of her children.

@orangecushion Both the Tsar and Tsarina were first cousins of George V, plus the Tsarina and Prince Philip's grandmother were sisters.

George V and Tsar Nicholas were first cousins; both grandsons of Christian IX of Denmark. ( George through his mother, Queen Alexandra).
Then Tsar NichOlas married a granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
Thé Danes and the British are very intermarried.

Descendants of QV and KC

@ElspethFlashman does he have a hunting lodge there?! Wow! I've just been down a Romanian royal family rabbit hole!!

Very Crude thought, but if Queen Victoria hadbeen very “Victorian” and not had so many children; European Royalty would look so different.

Here you go (sorry, DM link!)
www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3111082/amp/Inside-Prince-Charles-rustic-Romanian-retreats-Royal-s-122-night-Transylvanian-farmhouses-campaign-save-forests-walked-ancestor-Count-Dracula.html

Elspeth apparently he does:

www.greenpearls.com/hotels/hrh-prince-charles-guesthouse/

Snap

Four pages already?!? Got catching up to do!

Max 😍 as pretty as a picture!

All caught up and led down the DM rabbit hole of Emily Blunt at the polo with Prince Harry. Gorgeous dress and sisters well meshed with Hollywood stars.
She was at an event with 2 princes, and the dress is so royal-worthy, so I can surely add this little post?

Sorry if anyone else has already posted it!

Emily usually looks great, but I'm not a fan of this. The colour washes her out and the dress looks a bit cheap, although it was probably £££. Max never lets us down! How large do we think her hat cupboard is?

Max looks stunning in that shade of pink (and the hat is gorgeous too)

Wax always looks like the cat that’s got the cream

Regarding Di and her eating disorder, I really don't know much about it but on the documentary "Diana in her own words" it has footage with commentary that she made in conversations which were recorded. In that film there is footage of her in the black strapless dress, it was her first formal function once they were engaged. She explained that being a young Sloane Ranger she considered it to be the height of the sophistication. Charles made a negative comment about the dress because it was black, she was not married at this point so of course was not au fait will Royal Protocol. I'm also not sure if she quite appreciated the stir she would cause as in the footage her breasts look pretty amazing! Almost presented on a platter as the dress has a shelf like effect, I imagine to give plenty of structure and support. Her skin was gorgeous and flawless and there was definitely more of it, she definitely looked like what she was, an aristocratic country gel who was attending a sophisticated event that was somewhat intimidating. To quote her "I was quite big-chested then and they all got frightfully excited".

She said she remembered the event so well as she was absolutely terrified. She always had that amazing ability to smile and be very charming no matter how she felt internally.

Anyway, she was most definitely buxom. In the recordings she claims that a negative comment from Prince Charles about her being chubby set off her bulimia. She implies that she "discovered" the ability to make herself sick at that time but maybe she is not being completely honest if she already was struggling with an ED. She says that she lost several inches around her waist in the lead up to the wedding and the dress had to be taken in a number of times, it was quite dramatic something like 28 to 23. Poor girl.

I think the problem was that she had to walk up a stairs and the cameras were above looking down her top. They quivered like a pair of blancmanges.

Hilariously Kate wore a black velvet strapless evening gown and the press got very excited ignoring that the similarity ended abruptly at the top of the dress!

HMQ's black strapless dress had rather less decolletage on show than Diana's