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??

Why are foot photos tacky?

I think the DoC has helped design a garden at Chelsea this week? Floral dress anyone?

I bumped into Kate and William some years ago outside St James palace. They were a very glamorous couple, and very tall. I’d say Kate is at least 5.9.
I saw Diana at Wimbledon. I was about 20 feet away from her. She was incredibly beautiful. Far more so than her photos. Like a Grecian statue in her facial profile, long limbed and perfect skin. Glowing.

According to google PW is 6ft 3 these photos give a fairly good indication of Kate’s height, I’m guessing 5ft 8?

Which makes William likeliest the second tallest person to be a British monarch when he comes to the throne. He'll be under Edward IV by about an inch and a half and one inch more than Henry VIII and Charles II.

The foot photo is tacky because it says “here, plebs, you can see my baby’s feet but not his face. You’re not special enough to see his face, but we want some attention anyway.”

The foot photo is tacky because it says “here, plebs, you can see my baby’s feet but not his face. You’re not special enough to see his face, but we want some attention anyway.”

I could maybe understand that if all we had seen was his feet but we haven't we had a whole photo call with questions and shots of him meeting the queen. That is as much (more in my opinion) than we have had with other royal children! The foot photo is a little extra thing they decided to do!

Like I said it's not my taste it a little bit too trying to be artistic for me but I maintain there is nothing wrong with it!

I think they’re tacky because they say “look at my baby’s feet! Aren’t they the most adorable, precious, cute things ever?”.

All babies have adorable feet and hands. Because they’re tiny and cute. Nothing special about any particular baby. They’re all the same.

Thank you for the new thread Queen. I tried to take pictures of my children’s feet but they weren’t very good.

The foot photo means LOOK people, no VERRUCAS!

Do you remember that I asked about clothes for Royal Parent/Teacher evenings? THIS popped up on my insta feed - how strange is that? . I like the white shirt and navy trousers combo best but I, personally, would wear nice flats with that rather than heels.

It’s a cute pic to celebrate Mothes Day in the States

“I think they’re tacky because they say “look at my baby’s feet! Aren’t they the most adorable, precious, cute things ever?”.”
Well, I certainly thought that about mine.......!

I think it's sweet. And a nice pic to celebrate Mother's Day in the US. I just can't get that exercised about a picture of some feet 🤷‍♀️

Everyone thinks their babies tiny toes are the cutest thing ever! And most people spam social media for the first few months while they're in the grip of their newborn obsession

Must only be royalty who are not allowed to behave like that then

Our 3rd child was our only son and he weighed almost 11lb. The weight was down to his very long limbs (heavy bones) with big hands and feet. Those cute little stickers you can imprint your babies feet on in the hospital had a pretty outline but his huge feet were outside the outline. He also was too long (tall) at birth for the baby bucket/car seat and we had to buy a new one for big babies. He went straight into 3 month clothes at birth.

Needless to say he is a tall 12 year old, slim but 5' 10" and I am 5' 5" and a size 10/12. So he is already looking down at me. He pointed out his feet were looking extra big today and I sighed and told him he is clearly going to be adding a couple of inches to his height this summer. His feet always grow first to support his frame.

"Cute baby feet" in my frame of reference are massive, of the Hagrid variety.

I don't love the foot photo, can't really see the point, but I do think the sentiment expressed was thoughtful. I think we'll see a lot of this sort of thing from the D&DOS.

Ok so...Meghan was being annoying by cradling her baby bump and now she is attention seeking by posting pictures of her baby feet?
I fail to see the problem in letting a woman enjoy her pregnancy and subsequent birth on her own terms...if you don’t like, don’t look at her Instagram.

I've never really seen the point of the feet photo but I think it's pretty standard and lots of people love them. I can't get worked up about it.

It's like my Dad honestly can't understand why photos of our children aren't all taken front on so we can see their face and, at least, upper body - if we have an action shot or a picture of one of them turned sideways he thinks it's a waste! I tease him that he's so old he still remembers the days when you had to stand for a camera and wait 5 seconds for the light to expose....

Having said that, a friend's just had a baby and the little girl has the most adorably cuddly arms that always seem to be hugging whoever/whatever she's lying on. I'm in love with those photos....

bling . They did didn't they. I've got formal photographs of my grandparents where they've had to sit still for the photo.

Digital cameras and cameras on phones have revolutionised photography.
When I was growing up you had films with 24 or 36 exposures that had to be sent away to be processed if you didn't have a local agent such as the chemist.
It was seen as an event by my parents to take a photo.
Our great niece was born in Australia in April and we saw pictures of her courtesy of WhatsApp within hours. When I was growing up my parents would still be checking the post to see if one had arrived this morning.

“Ok so...Meghan was being annoying by cradling her baby bump and now she is attention seeking by posting pictures of her baby feet?“

Yep. We’ll only have to see another 4 images of him and that’ll be more than we’ve seen of Louis. If we do-then she’ll be attention seeking-if we don’t she’ll be thinking she’s too good for us........

And a nice pic to celebrate Mother's Day in the US

She also mentioned that it was Mother's Day in several Commonwealth countries.

Yes, my niece celebrated her first Mothers' Day in Australia yesterday.