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??

Last = most

But probably the last one as well

latedecember1963 and @rhubarb
Thanks for the heads up.
I will book it for September after the tourist rush. I really enjoyed my visit to KP earlier this year.

We went in September. It was pleasant enough to enjoy walking outside in the gardens and not as busy as I imagine August would be.

Kate's out at Bletchley later today. Nice weather so I don't think it'll be a coat dress but it'll probably be some variation on the green dress she wore a couple of weeks ago. Or she might surprise us and bring out the trousers again!

Surely she will rock a 40s vibe for Bletchley. A tea dress of some sort.

Prince Harry in Oxford today. He looks so happy!

I think Kate should really go for the full cosplay and have 1940s hair!

Diana did a version about 35 years ago and everyone went mad for it!

I had never seen this one of her with a headband and a fringe, but the straighter; golden blond hair really suited her.

The hairstyle Diana had towards the end of her life looked great. And she'd adopted a sleeker, more minimalist style of dressing too, much better than all the 80s frou-frou.

Well Kate is a literal dresser so you never know @CurlyWurlyTwirly!

Max is in Ethiopia. Not keen on this dress I'm afraid - doesn't do anything for her imo.

That is very un-Max, it's minimum Max. She looks like she has stolen the seatbelt from the plane too.

She does seem to like beige though. I guess the lace up detail makes it a bit more Max!

Harry looks super happy out and about but I kind of wish he'd stay home with Meghan and the baby. Not because Meghan doesn't have plenty of support, especially with her mum there, but because otherwise it sets the precedent of him getting on with things externally. Also, I think high profile men need to stand up and show that paternity leave and time with the baby is important. [although, I also won't be surprised if at some point in the next month or two we see Meghan out and about somewhere while Harry is very obviously at home with the baby... ]

Yes but if he did then he'd be accused of being lazy!

Max is probably working to the constraints of Muslim clothing in Ethiopia, long sleeves, over the knee etc, so curbing her flamboyance!

Possibly, although Ethiopia is majority Christian.

Estimates of the Ethiopian Muslim population vary from about 32% to 45% of the population, with pockets of domination, so they will be influential.

The 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth is on 24th May which is when the new Victoria exhibition will open at Kensington Palace. The rooms have been closed for some time in preparation so it should be worth a visit.

I've got an HRP membership so am planning to visit next month. I think more Dior at the V&A tickets go on sale tomorrow too so am going to try and get one of those.

Today Kate looks to be wearing that navy spotted dress that she wore for Charles's 70th portraits. One of Meghan's friends wore the same dress for the wedding last year. It has a bit of a 40s vibe so we weren't far off with our guesses!

Though I'm disappointed by the lack of hair rolls!!!

I tracked a private plane on Flight Radar 24 which took off from a private airstrip between Perth and Banchory (Scotland, near the Cairngorms and just south of Aberdeen) and it landed in Bletchley at about 1pm. I wonder who was on board?! Must find out where those Scottish royal residences are located.