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??

Louis looks very very like Kate! Lucky boy. I find James Middleton’s eyes startlingly bright. Louis is lucky to inherit their genes. George is like Mike Middleton. Charlotte like the RF side.

I like the whole outfit a lot, but the culottes don't do her any favours because they emphasise her short legs. She looked great in the long flowy Jigsaw pants, but not these.

Anyone know where Kate’s floral dress from yesterday is from?

Kate’s legs are not short
She has really long legs

A cute video of the Cambridge kids playing from yesterday Louis definitely isn't camera shy bless him

video

I quite like Kate's outfit today. So she is there today and the queen is there but not at the same time I guess we can all see tomorrow's headlines already

Kate’s physique is very narrow hipped and androgynous.
However she is not underweight skinny. She appears to have a very low body fat percentage, and she is very toned and strong.
She dresses to flatter her shape on the whole( hence the heels and wedges)

I agree the trousers look a bit strange on Kate. She has no waistline so they sit on her torso oddly. She is a peculiar shape with such a long torso. When I looked at photos of her in that navy dress last week, it made her look like she’d been stretched on a rack

Where are the photos from LGW’s evening party?

Love the “Oh la la!”

More RHS photos from Kensington Royal

My take on DoC and leg length.

She is tall so her legs are long but they are relatively short for her height and she has a long torso.

(In contrast, Meghan is short-waisted.)

Blog for the Cambridge children’s clothes
Hand me downs for Louis and H&M for George.

Kate is wearing a&other stories, 100% polyester. Eeuch. Accessorise earrings £8.

Kate will be back with HM later today so I think we will see a floral dress then.

I love the noise but agree the culottes look odd on her. Overall it's a hit though!

Ella's evening wedding dress is dreadful - net curtain central. All of those evening looks are horrible to be fair!!

Lovely hearing their voices!! Something you realise you don’t get very often at all

curly Pippa’s hot friend, is Swedish , I think they both did some sort of charity together , cycling across the US, but I can’t remember his name or what he does for a living.
Pippa went out with some really good looking men, remember the guy she went out with a few years ago?

I think Kate is very well proportioned. She has a long torso but her legs are in proportion to that and her height. I'm long waisted and it can be tricky finding high street clothes with the waist in a comfortable place for me. The DoC probably doesn't have that problem!

Meghan is a completely different shape, short waisted with spindly legs. She doesn't have Kate's natural assets but what she does have is a very good sense of style. Apart from a few early misses she dresses pretty well.

Do you mean this one @queenofarles ?
Nico Jackson. He was very debonair

Pippa's current husband isn't all that good looking though.

I love Kate's culottes! I think she just exudes such infectious enthusiasm and joy. I love to look at photographs of her. She always comes across as genuine and unaffected, though I do think her accent sounds a bit put on , probably due to nerves. I don't think she's a natural at public speaking .

'Pippa's current husband isn't all that good looking though.'

Maybe her next one will be more handsome

I can't put my finger on it, but the culottes just don't work IMHO. Maybe for the same reason the polka dot dress last week doesn't work... the hem is hitting her legs at the wrong point? But I'm no style icon myself 😄 so what do I know!!!

Pippa’s husband isn’t that awful looking.
Anyway, he’s rich. Money is very forgiving.

I'm a bit late to the LGW wedding convo, but WTF was Princess Anne wearing She looked like a cross between Mary Poppins and a Ryanair hostess. Also hugely disappointed in Princess Michael... expected much better, and a much bigger hat! HM looked fab. Loved the bride's dress though it seems to have divided opinion on here.

Do you mean this one @queenofarles* ?
Nico Jackson. He was very debonair*

Yes! He was just pretty to look at , though this picture is not flattering .

Her husband may not be a looker but looks genuinely kind and adores her.

Pippa's husband isn't handsome but he isn't particularly unattractive either. But a definite case of "what first attracted you to multi-millionaire James Matthews"! Her ex was very good-looking but in a "cad and a bounder" kind of way, IYKWIM.

Though to be fair it may also be a case of "what first attracted you to the future King's sister in law" too...