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??

LGW ?

Looking at more photos today, the Mail have a few posted by guests on social media, I have to say I think Pippa looked beautiful. That dress is very detailed up-close and I think she really pulls off the headband look.

Lady Gabriella Windsor Bean
Did she not go or get invited to H&M's wedding?

She wasn’t invited, none of the second cousins were invited. Not even Lady Helen Taylor et al.

Awful I thought. To make room for Victoria Beckham and Oprah!!

Just checked & according to Hello she & her brother Fred didn't get an invite.

The royals always have really random guests. I guess it's not inconceivable that William and Harry knew David Beckham, and a lot of Meghan's friends are actors, but one that always puzzled me was Demi Moore at Eugenie's wedding!

I'm not sure how or why but Demi Moore is supposed to be close to Fergie!

Ricky Martin was there too. And Robbie Williams' daughter was a bridesmaid, who knew he and Eugenie were close??

Getty images have Fergie and Carole Middleton pictures side by side there’s no comparison in their outfits. Ferries highlights her stomach it’s too tight and does nothing for her,she always gets it wrong. Carole always gets it righ, If sometimes a bit safe but the dress coat style really suits her.
What is Princess Anne wearing,? It’s really awful, the Queen is much more fashionable than her daughter. The bride looked lovely but her mother was a big disappointment so frumpy and she needed to lose that jacket with all the beads

My favourite random royal wedding guests were both Ricky Martin and Holly Valance at Eugenie's. Living my A Level revision soundtrack.

Freddie Windsor got married first and neither William nor Harry attended, maybe they're just not close. I wouldn't invite my second cousins who I'm not close to. I doubt space was an issue.

Holly Valance is married to one of the Candy brothers , so they must know Andrew or Fergie.

Good god, four dresses

Pippa's dress was Kate Spade. I wasn't mad about the ruching on the sleeves but liked the overall look.

Lady Helen was at W&K’s wedding

There were more guests at their wedding, and heads of state too.

Awful I thought. To make room for Victoria Beckham and Oprah!!

So was Meghan expected to exclude her friend so that the groom's second cousin once removed could attend?

People she’s been friends with since announcing her engagement to a prince? Those friends?

Gabriella clearly thought enough of Harry to invite him to her wedding. These people will have seen a lot more of each other growing up than most of us do of our second cousins once removed. It’s not really the same thing. I did think it was rather perverse to see Chloe Madeley rocking up to a royal wedding when actually royals were not invited.

Clearly they can invite whom they like and don’t have to run it by me. Just making an observation.

Pippa Middleton looked beautiful - face/hair. She totally rocks the headband look. I wasn't dying about the dress but thought she looked very classy.

People she’s been friends with since announcing her engagement to a prince? Those friends?

Her actor friends were people she'd starred with in Suits for years.

Didn’t they all grow up at KP? So they must have seen each other more frequently?
I doubt the clooneys knew who MM was prior to the engagement.

I thought it was Harry who was friends with the Clooneys?

Her actor friends were people she'd starred with in Suits for years

Yes, I know. I was referring to the people I mentioned in my original post as I thought that’s what I was being pulled up on. Oprah for example.

I just find it extraordinary that the Oprah and the Clooneys are part of the inner circle when I’d bet my house on them never having so much as spoken to Meghan before she became engaged to PH.

Gabriella clearly thought enough of Harry to invite him to her wedding.

Well, that would be Harry's responsibility if he wanted her at his wedding as she is his second cousin once removed. I do believe it is the custom for the bride to get to include some of her friends in the guest list.

I watched the wedding with my teenager. The conversation went something like this “Who’s that?” “Someone from Suits” “Who’s that?” “Someone else from Suits”...

I don't think Meghan knew the Clooneys but apparently Harry did, through his charity work. So maybe it was him who invited them rather than her.