Royal style & gossip: summer is coming, tiaras better be too!

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And as promised, here's a guide to the acronyms we use on these threads:

HM - the Queen
DoE - Prince Philip
PM - Princess Margaret
QM - the Queen Mum
W&K - William and Kate
H&M - Harry and Meghan
C&C - Charles and Camilla
B&E - Beatrice and Eugenie
Max & Wax - Maxima and Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
CPV - Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden
HCP - (Hot) Carl-Philip of Sweden
CPM - Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
Mar & Fre - CPM when she’s with her husband, Frederik of Denmark
SWFM - (Single White Female) Marie of Denmark, on account of resembling several other royal women!
HH&MM - (Hottie) Haakon and Mette-Marit of Norway
SFF - (Silver Fox) Felipe of Spain

I think that’s all of them??

My child is the future King of the United Kingdom. Don’t you think he should have been a page boy?

Or Ella herself "My mother has already been married twice but is trying to take over my wedding"

@CurlyWurlyTwirly - I agree that the colours are a bit insipid on her - I think I was just so relieved to see some clean lines and non-patterned fabric after all the frou-frou horrors from today that I got carried away!

Princess Anne apparently first wore that outfit in 2009!

metro.co.uk/2015/06/17/13-times-princess-anne-schooled-us-on-how-to-rock-a-retro-outfit-5250294/

Amelia Windsor looks like she borrowed her dress from Grayson Perry!

I loved the Brides dress - my favourite of the three weddings at Winsdor this year!

Meghan: "To use my newborn as an excuse to stay away from DH's racist cousin's daughter's wedding"

I wonder if Princess Anne has kept her figure or has a very good dressmaker altering her clothes?

I suspect she's kept her figure anyway - but also has someone to properly store, repair, clean and alter her clothes as needed!

Sarah Chatto loves her cardis
CurlyWurlyTwirly I like your post of 33 mins ago re Eugenie's absence from the wedding.

Or perhaps she posted the message on Instagram through gritted teeth cos she hadn't got an invite from "Dear Ella and Tom" yet her Mum, Dad, sister, Granny and Grandad had.

Meghan: To refuse on principle to go to a child free wedding even though DM has offered to look after DS1?

I am pretty sure the curtesy thing is a misunderstanding by the tabloids of precedence. The “blood princesses” take precedence but they don’t have to go round curtsying to each other according to precedence..... am pretty sure that within the family it’s only to HMQ - something to do with difference in status (majesty vs. royal highness vs. serene highness or just ‘highness’ vs pleb...)

If William isn’t with Kate but George is who does she curtesy too?

Amelia Windsor looks like she borrowed her dress from Grayson Perry!

or Hyacinth Bucket.

In theory Kate should curtsy to George but doesn't because it'd just be too daft.

Beatrice is one of the best dressed and the best she's ever looked in my humble opinion.

The men didn’t look that well turned out either I didn’t think. The groom has a really mishmash of colours, beige waistcoat, blue shirt with white collar (I hate those) and a red tie. Did he get dressed in the dark . And Prince harry was wearing a dark blue waistcoat which I didn’t think went with his grey trousers, and black coat.

Bride looked radiant. Prince Michael looked smart too

In theory Kate should curtsy to George but doesn't because it'd just be too daft. imagine her curtsying when she wakes him up for school , “morning your majesty”

The men didn’t look that well turned out either.
Some looked like they just rolled out of bed and put a suit on.
Andrew looks a mess

Nobody would have expected Meghan to go, two weeks after giving birth. It’s odd that Kate didn’t go though, given how many other high profile royals did. Surely she doesn’t abstain from weddings because she fears drawing attention from the bride? That can’t be right. I think the bride is always the star on her wedding day.

I’m another one who didn’t like the brides dress. Fabric too busy and bumpy. Agile neither one thing nor the other. Maybe it just didn’t photograph well.

Love this pic of knackered flower girls!

Side view of the designer. She looks like a trompe l’oeil Of a herbaceous border!

As desertgirl said, they don't curtsey and bow to people of the same rank. HRHs are the same rank, whether by blood or marriage. The order of precedence has nothing to do with curtseying or bowing; it's about who arrives when, what order people process in, etc.

I have just been catching up on the photos of today and wondered who was wearing the blue dress....the designer...is she wearing something she designed because that is awful.

I liked the cut of the brides dress not sure on the fabric some pictures it looks a bit to busy but that might be different in person.

I liked Beatrice's outfit apart from the white hat that was an odd colour choice a headband like everyone else or navy would have been better.

The queen looked lovely I thought, I do like her in the stronger colours Prince Philip looked well to.

Gabriella made a beautiful bride. The Queen looked lovely. Beatrice inappropriate.

Interesting about curtseying and line of precedence etc. So, if she’d gone alone, would Kate have sat further away from the Queen inside the church than she usually does? I mean, without Charles, Camilla and William, would Harry have been next most senior? Would Kate havr arrived before the other royals?

Zenouska is a lovely name

Oh I'm well taken with Flora Ogilvy. She sounds like a 1920s Scottish heroine heiress who lives romantically in a tumbledown castle.

@beanaseireann and others - I agree re. Freddie W looking a bit scary.

I have to say I was a little surprised at the size of the wedding given how far down the succession she is. I find it very hard to keep up with who's who when it comes to the Oligvies/Kents x2 and Gloucesters!

Don't want to out myself but a friend met E recently and didn't comment on her being noticeably pg.

I wasn't wowed by the dress - fabric a little too busy for something lacking structure. Lovely colour on the queen.