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Royal style and gossip: get yer crowns out for the lads!

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QueenOfTheAndals · 04/01/2019 10:34

Previous thread.

Usual rules - say what you like about the clothes, keep it civil re the wearers.

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QueenOfTheAndals · 11/01/2019 15:07

@Gotstuckwiththisname I always thought Richard Chamberlain from the Thorn Birds until someone pointed out the resemblance to old Nige.

Viscountess Hinchingbrooke sounds like an interesting lady.

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IPromiseIWontBeNaughty · 11/01/2019 15:08

Curly & Bloomin will definitely miss you.

UrsulaPandress · 11/01/2019 15:55

Looking forward to the Mayhew visit.

DontCallMeCharlotte · 11/01/2019 16:52

@Bloominglovely and @CurlyWurlyTwirly I hope you're both back soon.

Hear hear.

Clionba · 11/01/2019 17:12

I do like Maria Theresa, and like the fact that she wears colours and striking jewellery. I like her hair like that as well.
How dreadful of her mother in law, though! Cruel.

QueenOfTheAndals · 11/01/2019 17:17

Nigel Henri and Maria Theresa's wedding. It's quite uncanny how little he's aged!

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Clionba · 11/01/2019 17:21

Wow, thank you QueenOfTheAndals!
Maria Theresa looks so pretty! What a gorgeous dress. I've never seen those pictures before. That's going to be one of my new favourite royal wedding dresses.

QueenOfTheAndals · 11/01/2019 17:27

This more recent shot of them is also lovely.

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UrsulaPandress · 11/01/2019 17:50

Lovely photo. Wonder what they were up to?

Clionba · 11/01/2019 17:59

That's a lovely photo of the couple.

IdaBWells · 11/01/2019 18:14

I don’t personally knows large amounts of women that look as “ordinary” as Diana and Meghan.

I do think certain people are renowned more for their personal style than their looks per se. I believe Jackie Kennedy Onassis falls into that category. She grew up in an extremely wealthy and privileged environment, rode horses, played lots of upper-class sports, was well travelled, spoke fluent French and I think a woman like that can have an attractiveness in person that can be hard to gauge from photographs alone. It will be their manner, their posture, the way they move and talk, their wit and intelligence, their sense of humour and personal magnetism. Some people’s beauty has to be in motion as it were, to be experienced.

When she came on the scene her style of dressing was very sophisticated to an American audience, it was a clean, sharp, simple silhouette and she dressed mostly in French couture. She and the president were also a young couple to be in the White House. So it really was a combination of factors that created the impact she made. As a young teen I was quite baffled to hear she was a renowned beauty as her eyes seemed a bit too far apart Grin!

But as someone up thread noted, were we all groomed and styled within an inch of our lives with fabulous clothes that fit like a glove combined with the luxury of not needing be in paid work, with time to exercise and eat properly and always get enough sleep because a member of staff would care for the baby I think we would all very likely be transformed into our best selves!

Queenofarles no worries. I really hope Curly and Bloomin will be back soon and keep the fun and gracious vibe going that QueenOftheAndals has created.

IdaBWells · 11/01/2019 18:28

Oh also perusing the papers this morning about the DofS going to Smart Works over the past year and coaching some of the clients who had come in to receive an outfit. The women she worked with said her advice was very good and helpful. A commentator pointed out that she was one of the only members of the Royal family who would have had to compete for jobs and interviews purely on merit. I can only imagine the huge amount of rejection she faced as an actress going to auditions, so she can empathize.

Apologies if I am often commenting on conversations pages later - it’s the time difference Grin!

Spudlet · 11/01/2019 18:54

A commentator pointed out that she was one of the only members of the Royal family who would have had to compete for jobs and interviews purely on merit.

That's an excellent point and not an unfair one - I suppose Kate would also have interviewed for her Jigsaw job, but that was a long time ago and as you say, that can't hold a candle to the toughness of the audition process and repeated rejections that Megan must have gone through. You must need so much resilience to get through that! I'm another one who'll be looking to see if we have a local charity doing similar work to Smartworks and seeking to donate some bits, it's a great idea.

Curly and Bloomin, hope to see you back soon.

throughtheeyeofaneedle · 11/01/2019 19:07

It was me who likened feet in Perspex shoes to chicken in glass jars, and I can assure you that it had nothing to do with the specific foot. That picture shown above could have been of anyone's foot and I stand by how awful I personally think that sort of shoe looks. The way a foot presses up against the Perspex look very odd in my opinion.

But then I look like a turkey wearing a sack most of the time, so it's all relative!

IdaBWells · 11/01/2019 19:13

Yes Spudlet when the blurb on Smart Works said they also see clients who have been on over 50 interviews without any success, it slowly dawned on me that I bet that is an experience Meghan can relate to and could have well have been a reason she chose the charity.

Also watched some stuff of Julie Montagu who seems very down to earth and is another yoga enthusiast. I’m sure the DofS could do with friends like her who can relate to the hostility of the charming Brits!

AlsoBling2 · 11/01/2019 19:26

Oh interview coaching, help with cv, presentation training all so important. And to some of us, comes easìly. But not yo others. I had a woman work indirectly for me once. Her clothes were an increasing problem and people were starting yo talk. I took her aside. Turns out she had put on weight and just didn't know what to do. But she turned it around COMPLETELY and the last time I saw her, after years, she YET again brought it up and thanked me. But for months people had not thought she was choosing to dress inappropriately, not that she just didn't know better in difficult circumstances.

IdaBWells · 11/01/2019 19:39

I am not one to knock Catherine for working for her family’s business as we also have a business, however as she also spent much of her 20s working for them that’s another Royal who sailed through the interview process!

When it comes to the price of Catherine’s clothes I think she is only getting a free pass for some of her more expensive pieces because Meghan is new blood the tabs are bating for. It also seems to work well for their narrative to have Good Young Royal Wife vs. Bad Young Royal Wife and of course they have to have a feud Hmm As soon as Meghan appeared Catherine went from “Waity Kaity”, boring, lazy to the Nation’s Sweatheart and a true English Rose.

certainlymerry · 11/01/2019 19:40

Sophie Wessex had a career in PR before she got married, so I presume she had interviews for jobs then?

IdaBWells · 11/01/2019 19:45

Yep she falls into the category of “one of the only members of the Royal family who would’ve had to compete for jobs and interviews purely on merit”. Clearly if you are marrying in you are more likely to be a pleb and do what plebs do.

Although it’s only in very recent generations that plebs have been seen as marriage material.

MrsGrindah · 11/01/2019 19:54

I just wish she wouldn’t wear so much black and v dark navy....it’s a bit boring for those of us who like ogling clothes!

ElspethFlashman · 11/01/2019 19:54

Yeah Sophie definitely worked-worked. As opposed to "worked".

Actually Tim Lawrence is probably the member of the RF who has actually worked the most outside it. He has retired from the Navy but now works site and property development and appears to be still working full time.

He's one who I actually think would have had a fairly similar trajectory whether he was married or not. Sure, it likely impressed people, but he's clearly one of life's workers and he did well in the Navy.

queenofarles · 11/01/2019 19:56

curly and bloom please come back soon.

VamillaSugar · 11/01/2019 20:52

queen. I salute you. We will all endeavour to keep these threads in the spirit to which they were intended. They are a respite from the craziness of world politics and the ever increasing ironing pile.

legolammb · 11/01/2019 21:03

Ida - definitely agree re. some people having 'something' about them. I often attend work events with aristo types, and I think there's an air of confidence they give off that is quite striking - through a combination of genes and privileged lifestyle I guess. Even when wearing very simple clothes.

frugalkitty · 11/01/2019 21:07

I'm not entirely sure what's happened on here, I can't work out quite who said what, why, and who's in the wrong (whatever the wrong is). I've not seen any nastiness and I don't feel like there's any kind of group mentality either. But I'm sorry that one or two posters feel they need some time away and hope they come back soon.

MrsGrindah I agree that the black and navy is a bit boring, but that made me think that maybe that's why she wears them a lot, so that the clothes won't be talked out.....but then I thought, if the clothes do get talked about surely that's the better topic of conversation than anything else (eg the cost of renovations in Windsor). Whatever she does there will be someone criticising her choice.

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