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??

Perhaps he's holding her hand !

Thank you QueenoftheAndals for reposting CurlyWurlyTwirlys photograph.

Some of you could enter Mastermind and your chosen subject would be the Royal Family.
You'd ace it!

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

Mantilla: traditional Spanish dress
The hand holding: Letizia posts Aibu? The day after her wedding

bean my specialist subject for French A level was Monaco and it's royal family

Freddie Windsor was holding his mothers hand in his wedding photos that someone posted earlier as well.

Oh my you gossipy creatures, I just sat down in front of the telly and caught ten minutes of a programme right up your alley, about Queen Sonia of Norway’s childhood home. It’s been moved and restored into some sort of a museum. She talks really candidly about growing up, “dating” the crown prince, her mother who was really supportive and also the family tragedy of an older brother who died as a child in a boat accident (it exploded ). She has tears in her eyes half the time. Lots of private footage of her as a baby and so on. It’s on svt play and I think available internationally because we’re not stingy bastards over here but the language is an issue of course ...

www.svtplay.se/video/22236622/drottning-sonjas-barndomshem/drottning-sonjas-barndomshem-avsnitt-1?cmpid=del:an:05-19-2019:drottning-sonjas-barndomshem:pla:lp-app

Freddie Windsor was holding his mothers hand in his wedding photos that someone posted earlier as well.

Haha! I’m sure I read somewhere that Sophie Winkleman said her MIL organised their entire wedding. I wonder if she chose the rather underwhelming dress, too

Evidently, Princess Mary remained close to her brother the Duke of Windsor after the abdication, the only blood family member to do so.

The wedding invitation is interesting to me. In the US, those following traditional etiquette would use "pleasure of your company" only if the wedding is not in a church or other house of worship. If in a church the wording is "honour of your presence," also the only time we spell honor as honour.

Those Spanish royal weddings are really good for people watching and for pageantry. I think they are all available on YouTube; I know Felipe and Leti's is. In one of them you can see Prince Charles bowing to former King Constantine. I found that very interesting. I suppose they see it as once-a-king-always-a-king.

It wouldn't surprise me @Haworthia. PMoK herself looked magnificent at Freddie's wedding though!

This is the best image I’ve seen of Ella's wedding dress.
You can really see the detail on the hem, which is the prettiest part.
I think for a big wedding like hers, a more graphic shape and bigger detail would have been more effective.

Well she's obviously a very traditional classic person. Cos that dress is fairly generic. That doesn't mean it's not lovely, she's beautiful and looked beautiful in it. But it's not very memorable.

But I guess she really just wanted to look timeless.

@LadyCassandra

Any gossip from your parents from inside the wedding? Thanks for sharing if so!

Yesterday's Danish royal wedding.

As this is the bride's second marriage, her Aunt the Queen and cousin the CP didn't attend.

Oh blimey, not sure on the see through look- although it is lovely from far away. Like the pink in the flowers.

Gabriella had FOUR wedding dresses:

www.hellomagazine.com/brides/2019051973211/royal-wedding-continues-lady-gabriella-windsor-fourth-wedding-dress/

So there was an evening reception as well? Wasn't there some reporting to the effect that they weren't going to be allowed to have an evening do because it would keep little Archie awake or some such palaver?

I bet Meghan went to the evening do. And nipped back to feed!

Hope we see pics of the other 3 dresses.

The back of the Danish dress is lovely

Her dress from her first wedding is a bit odd. I kind of like it then the double layer at the bottom ruins it.

orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2011/06/wedding-wednesday-princess-alexandra-of.html?m=1

@Paradyning That was a big wedding, wasn't it? Several queens in attendance.

Four dresses
I thought just having your wedding dress & another dress/outfit for the evening reception/party was enough.

Yes it must be mad to have 2 queens as your aunties. (Although an ex-Queen as one!)

Who's the Danish bride and why is she marrying one of the guys from ABBA??

@SenecaFalls That was clearly a load of tabloid bollocks and I'm surprised people fall for it!

The danish bride is Alexandra, the daughter of the queens sister, Princess Benedikte.

If the Queen didn’t attend I don’t think it’s because it’s Alexandra’s second marriage - danish media says it was a secret, small, intimate weeding, only around 30 people there.

It's Princess Alexandra, daughter of Princess Benedicte I think.
I thought the room was her dad!