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??

Harry and Meghan first anniversary video
Lots of unseen shots there.

That’s beautiful, the weather a year ago was so different!

CurlyWurlyTwirly
Yesterday you posted photos of scenes from the balcony at the Trooping of the Colour.
In the middle photograph there is a woman at the very back who is the spitting image of Princess Anne. The likeness is uncanny and disconcerting because Anne's own mother is in the photograph, looking so young.
Who is the woman?
Is she Princess Mary, aunt of QE2 ?

I noticed that too @beanaseireann! I think yes, it is Princess Mary.

Beautiful video of the Sussex wedding, some lovely shots! Love the one of harry hitching a ride. And now they have a newborn 👶🏼

I’ve just watched a few clips of the Gayle King programme. Gayle really needs to stop trying to cash in on H&M.

Really like the anniversary video, just saw it in IG. Love the photo of Harry with his thumb up. The weather was fab, we had friends over for a bbq

Does this mean it's the anniversary of these threads too?? Happy Anniversary to us! I shall celebrate by going food shopping and doing the ironing

Queen would you be able to put that photo up again please, to see what others think. I'm useless with uploading photos and once made a huge error posting a photo on Mumsnet and spent a very fraught hour waiting for it to be taken down.
Thanks in advance.

Princess Mary and Princess Anne have a real likeness I’ve always thought.

Slightly uncanny given the Princess Royal connection!

My goodness, Zara looks so like Mary, and so does Anne.

Beautiful video - what a lovely way to mark their anniversary.

Lovely video!

Look at the Queen's waist in the Trooping of the Colour photo where she is wearing the red uniform- it's teeeeny.

Beautiful video on IG

Here’s the photo again @beanaseirann. The other unidentified ladies in it are Princess Alexandra and Princess Alice, the duchess of Gloucester

I was looking at photos of M&H’s anniversary and there are a few overhead photos of her veil ie the part that was on her head rather than the trail. It was absolutely beautiful. I never took too much notice of it before. It was perfect for her dress. Today’s photographs on ‘Royal addicted’ are stunning.

*train not trail!!!

I noticed the likeness when posting the Trooping of the Colour photos; it’s quite uncanny. She’s George VI’s sister; Princess Mary so Anne’s great Aunt.
Later the Countess of Harewood so she must be the matriarch of the Lascelles clan

Happy 1st Anniversary to my shed.

I think the iterations of Princess Mary’s titles were quite interesting. She was born a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria so was just a Highness not a Royal Highness.
I think Princess Charlotte may well get the multiple changes in title, apart from marrying a viscount / Earl

1897–1898:[38] Her Highness Princess Mary of York
1898–1901: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of York
1901–1901: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cornwall and York
1901–1910: Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Wales
1910–1922: Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary
1922–1929: Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles
1929–1932: Her Royal Highness The Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
1932–1965: Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal

Hard to believe this photo was taken only 20 months ago; when Harry went public with Meghan.

Not even a year between these 2 photos.

I looked out this thread just to see the comments on the bride's dress, but I love the running commentary from everyone - very entertaining!

I didn't like Gabriella's dress much - it just seems a bit blah to me.

I do love a royal wedding though. Actually any wedding, I'm not fussy

It's Felipe and Leti's 15th anniversary on May 22nd.

I'd never seen this photo before.

ALL my questions are about Queen Sofia- the mantilla(?) and is she holding Felipe's hand?!f

Forgot to say I loved the queen in pink!!

Does anyone know if the queen ever used to wear non-bright colours? Has she always been so colourful?

Why is she holding his hand..... !!!!!