Royal style & gossip: make every day Tiara Tuesday!

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And I shouldn't have to say this anymore but will do so for any newbies - let's keep our critiquing to the clothes and not the women wearing them.

I also noticed 2 influencers wearing Kate style hair bands from Prada

Yay to the hairband!

I find it hard to believe that trendy Instagram influences look to Kate for style tips! She isn't what I'd call fashion forward.

She was fairly well known in the US

We’re just going to have to disagree here. She wasn’t a household name like she is now; the show was fairly popular but I’d say Gina Torres was more famous than MM at the time.

About working with brands, Away gift bags is the one we definitely know of, she should never have let them do that ... at least so openly.

Tbh I’m quite disappointed with how things are turning out with Meghan. I really thought she was going to highlight important issues and put her feminist principles up and center. I’m not British, so don’t care about the RF traditions so much, but it seemed like she’d bring some needed diversity and shake things up a bit.

I thought she’d be different I guess

Dd (21) has been wearing Alice bands for about a year.

Nay to these headbands! I get she wants to do something different, but they are just not flattering, even the pillbox hats look better!

From what I understand, the flowers weren't donated to charities directly by MM. They hired a company (at the cost of £££) to take all of the leftover flowers to various charities. The company, in turn, was allowed to take photos inside MM hotel room and post photos of her on their website as well as photos of cancer-stricken children receiving the flowers. I think this is a sad and disgusting PR move to use cancer-stricken children and pseudo-charity to try to undo the PR damage caused by her shower. I think it is a great idea to donate items from big events but to publicise it as if she is giving back is shameful.

menocore?

What are we supposed to be wearing

Lots of elasticated waists apparently...
https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/06/menocore-fashion-trend.html

@rosewater20 if that true that's fucking awful

The company MM used is repeatroses
A quick glance at their website shows one picture of her.
There are no pictures of cancer stricken children receiving the flowers

So maybe rosewater20 could post a link please .

Thé Wessexes have taken a private jet to their ski holiday DM link.

Underlines what @mathanxiety said. All the RF are at it.
The Cambridge’s would have taken one too.

I don’t think anyone expected Meghan to hand deliver the flowers around NYC - there are some photos on the repeatroses instagram of kids with the flowers - who would even know this if it wasn’t for the DM. They scold her for doing stuff for publicity when they are literally the ones publiscing it

Even the Mail article about the Wessex ski trip manages to make a dig at Meghan and how she "raised eyebrows" with her recent holiday. But her trip was privately funded, the Wessexes is not!

Apologies to rosewater20. I see photos of a child on Instagram. Along with many other photos of people receiving regifted flowers from other events.
It’s a brilliant idea 🌸

I think the reason ppl were a bit about Repeat Roses is that they charge something like $1.3k for their services.

But maybe that's normal for a "charity" in the US? I honestly don't know.

Well they surely incur costs from transporting large arrangements across a busy urban environment so I don't really begrudge it 🤷‍♀️

Better the flowers are donated than binned I guess.

I think if I was Meghan I’d arrange the flowers into a display saying FUCK YOU and send them to Piers Morgan

Yes, the photos are on Instagram, and Repeat Roses said they had permission from MM to publicise their involvement with her. I think donating flowers to charities is lovely, but the way it is being publicised is not okay. She had almost zero involvement (other than maybe picking up the phone and booking them which I doubt she did) and to me, this screams of trying to make amends for her massive show of wealth and celebrity in NYC. It is one thing to personally take flowers to a charity that is near to her heart and make a show of publicising the good the work the charity is doing. It is another to spend thousands of pounds hiring an organisation to pick up flowers and drop them off, while simultaneously having friends and social media promote the donation as if it were some miraculous act of charity. It feels like a PR stunt and is frankly, condescending to the public.

I suppose what I find gross about this whole thing is not that she did it but that a big show is being made of it. Repeat Roses isn't some sort of struggling charity that needs her face to get attention. They are a successful organisation that charges a lot of money (no, charities in the US don't do this) for services (and should do, as they are an organization and need to be profitable). She could have very easily donated the flowers without causing a fuss.

I have read before that KM and many other royal women donate the flowers they receive to local hospitals, but I have seen the hospitals promote this nor have seen it showcased across social media.

"Repeat Roses isn't some struggling charity"

No they aren't, but thank goodness there's an angle so that a nice gesture by either DoS or one of her friends on her behalf can still be pulled apart and condemned, eh?

Rosewater if this is true I’m appalled.

Given the number of staff who were photographed carting presents in and out through the front doors of the hotel, you would've thought they could've put one of two of them in a van and low key dropped the flowers off at a local hospital rather than paying a company to come in and do it? Surely that's what normally happens with this type of donation. Repeat Roses seems like a very niche charity. Whilst I'm sure the flowers do bring joy to people who receive them, it's strange that they seek a monetary contribution on top of the actual flowers (which aren't cheap!).