Royal style and gossip: new year, new thread

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And let's stick to critiquing the outfits rather than the wearer!

It’s in Danish but with English subtitles. Really loving and funny. All the famous Royals are there. Max is on the same table and Mathilde of Belgium. They are all wearing their tiaras and gowns. Gorgeous!

How he met, wooed and married Mary. No different to William; they have all run the gamut of the press and tried to maintain their privacy. Fred is steady and assertive; but is still fun.

@LadyCassandra: They filmed the entire ceremony and the reception and it ended after their first dance which was a weird thing where all the guests joined them 2 by 2!

That might be an Australian thing where the first dance starts out with bride and groom, then both sets of parents (or bridesmaids and groomsmen) join in and then gradually everyone else. I think that generally parents of B&G swap partners halfway through. I don't suppose CPM's dad cut in and danced with Queen Margrethe.

Or at least it used to - I haven't been to a wedding for a long while, but now a lot of couples seem to have to put on some sort of mini-show.

Actually, I think that is the only royal wedding besides Charles and Diana's I have watched right through.

@IClavdivs no, it was definitely a traditional Danish thing. I now live in Aus, so I know what you’re talking about!

@CurlyWurlyTwirly

Thanks for sharing the speech. It was lovely, although if Meghanor Sophie gave a similar one they'dbe slammed.

I'm rather impressed by the gold tiara the queen wore but noticed she was sharing 's table with someone in a hoodie . If I'm in tiara mode , I'd expect everyone else to give me suitable camouflage

I had my first Royal dream last night, thanks to this thread.

DH and I had been invited to Sandringham for Christmas as I am Zara’s cousin but very low down on the pecking order (don’t know how that works I must be from the Philips family otherwise I’d be Beatrice or someone). Anyway, this was my first visit to Sandringham and everyone was squashed in like sardines. We (the girls, and by god they were mean girls) were hand washing our clothes and trying to dry them on airing racks.

We went to dinner and DH made the fatal mistake of calling out “waiter, waiter” as he wanted some more wine. The Queen was at the head of the table and was apoplectic- bright red in the face - and furiously declared how disappointed she was in DH who also went bright red in the face as the entire table load of minor, and unheard of, Royals descended upon him like a pack of wolves.

As we then left to go up a grand staircase to go to the Drawinf Room, the mean girls made catty comments about my dress and only Mike Tindall would talk to us.

The Queen was then dressed in that interesting outfit which queen posted the other day, complete with Sorting Hat. The Queen handed out velvet goodie bags which contained firework bombs and then I woke up.

No sign of Philip though...

My dress, incidentally, was a ruched white dress with black flowers on it. The mean girls asked me if it was a mother of the bride dress from Wallis and I got cross because it was from Phase Eight.

Fab dream Vanilla! And presumably all seemed completely reasonable while you were dreaming it

Mary Donaldson really reminds me of Liv Tyler in the wedding video!

That’s funny Vanilla

Just out of interest are you related to Zara? Or was it only in your dream?

Will look at the speech later as dh is snoring away & don’t want to wake him.

Just read that Lady Louise attends St Mary's. Does anyone else think this is a strange choice of school for someone who's grandmother is head of the Church of England? It says on the website that it's 98% Roman Catholic. I ask because I was looking at a RC school for my DC, but was told we had a small change of acceptance and that they may feel not fully part of the school because we're C of E? I'm sure the school are very welcoming to HM's granddaughter but was surprised at this choice

Didn't Beatrice and Eugenie go there too?

I think Eugene went to Marlborough, like the Middletons - I have a family friend who taught them all there. He's very discrete through! Not sure about Beatrice

I meant primary school but it turns out that was St Georges not St Mary's.

Our friend got to go to Eugene's wedding! Apparently she invited a few teachers which I though was lovely

There are two St. Mary's.
One CofE and one Roman Catholic.

I think one is St Mary's Ascot RC
The other is St Mary's Calne CofE but I stand to be corrected.

No ipromiseiwontbenaughty sadly not. In my dream I also saw Kate in the room but we lesser mortals were not allowed to approach her to say Hello. I wonder if this is true in RL and precedent still trumps the art of conversation? If so, no wonder a 20year old Diana felt so alone if she hadn’t got anyone vaguely normal to chat to.

Whoops. Charlotte's engagement is off!
DM LINK. Charlotte Casiraghi calls off her engagement to Dimitri Rassam
mol.im/a/6552901

Is it fair to say the extended Monegasque family are slightly dysfunctional?

Yikes! Didn't she just have a baby with him?

Yes in October??

The wedding dance where everyone joins them is the traditional Danish wedding waltz. The couple dances while gradually their guests move in closer, so that finally they are surrounded in love by their friends and family. Quite a lovely symbolic thing. I sometimes wish I could get married at home...

Charlotte is turning into her generation's version of Princess Stefanie. Unlucky in love.

Oh dear. Too much money, it enough discipline

Beatrice didn't go to Marlborough because they sent her somewhere more nurturing due to dyslexia, she was also held back a year. I think she was private but local and didn't board