Royal style & gossip: down with fleeces and double-breasted suits!

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Previous thread, complete with our acronyms.

Sorry for not commenting sooner.....I was just adding extra locks to my airing cupboard

If I happen to find an escaped Hottie wandering around aimlessly then I'll duct tape him in bubble wrap & post him back to you frugalkitty

Now I agree that CPH has a nice smiley face but he doesn't really do it for me.
My swoon guys (well if I was around at the time would have been my swoon guys) are George VI & Albert the Duke of Clarence.

For anyone near Derby, the Pickford House Museum is showing the clothes os Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, 1920s -30s couture gowns from Chanel, Worth, Hartnell and Vionette.
The exhibition is free and runs until the end of January 2020.

Another hottie. Prince William of Gloucester, older brother of the current Duke; killed in a plane crash in 1972

@TracyBeakerSoYeah You might've been wasting your time with the Duke of Clarence. Apparently he wasn't exactly what they called a ladies man...

Sophie’s hats

That Prince William was a looker @CurlyWurlyTwirly. Poor Princess Alice had to deal with a lot of sadness in her life. Her sons weren't born til several years after her marriage when she was in her 40s, which makes me think they had trouble conceiving, and then to lose one of them like that was so tragic. Apparently she never told her husband of William's death as he'd had a stroke and was in very poor health.

George VI was a handsome man too. Shame that none of his grandsons inherited his good looks!

I think I remember reading somewhere that Prince William had porphyria. Apparently Princess Margaret said it to a journalist. I may have misremembered though.

Has anyone else heard the story that the Queen Mum actually had her eye on the Prince of Wales and only accepted his brother when it became clear she wasn't David's type?

Yup queen. That story is in an American blog which was popular on this thread over the winter.

Prince William School named in honour

Oh bugger, try this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_School

@RhubarbIsEvil we've had so many threads I've forgotten what we've already discussed!!

I've always found it interesting that the Queen mother was of the generation that literally did not have enough men to go round after the terrible slaughter of WW1 yet she seemed to have a few options.

Ah QueenOfTheAndals I always thought he was bi & loved the person more than what sex they were.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7086429/Crown-Princess-Mary-Denmark-wears-Proenza-Schouler-visited-National-Centre-Grief.html

Princess Mary looking lovely

Gosh prince w of Gloucester!!

Does anyone know about the royal foundation? :( www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a27669340/meghan-markle-prince-harry-kate-middleton-prince-william-royal-foundation-split-report/

On a headband update - I’ve seen so many headbands in the last week alone!! I think they’ve made it into the mainstream (this is east and west London so quite a range)

Headbands definitely gone mainstream. Friend posted a picture on Insta yesterday of her wearing hers and saying how much she loves it. TBH it looked a bit ridic to me, but each to their own. I'm going to a wedding tomorrow, will be interesting to see if there are many about at that.

Headbands at least serve a purpose. I prefer them to the very daft "fascinator". However they reminds me of a very 1980s Laura Ashley look, not one I'd want to see again. I like the way Kate wears them, she's gone for a more 1940s vibe.

Interesting about the royal foundation. Actually, I don't think it's a bad thing, necessarily. As the article points out, the Cambridges have a constitutional role - they're bound by that. There are things they cannot say or do, ever, no matter how much they may want to, because of it. However Harry and Meghan aren't bound in that way, and can be more political and more radical, if they wish. And why shouldn't they, if they can? I would hate to be gagged in the way the Cambridges effectively are. And I'd also hate to be subordinate to a sibling based only on the accident of our birth order. I'm not suggesting that H&M are planning the next Wars of the Roses or anything, but having to defer at work to your big brother must be hard, if you have your own ideas and passions to follow.

Even without that dynamic, working with family is hard - splitting the personal and professional could be a big step towards healing any 'rift'.

I think it was Prince William of Gloucester I watched a tv programme about a year or so ago. It was about a prince who had led a playboy type existence in terms of attending fabulous parties around Europe, piloting his own plane and being an eligible bachelor.
He'd fallen in love with someone and she spoke about the wonderful affair they'd had but she wasn't convinced his family would have ever agreed to them marrying. She may have been Swiss, but I think she was living in Canada or the US at the time of filming. Decades after his death, he was obviously still the love of her life.

Yes I remember that doc from a few years ago. I wonder if he was close to Prince Charles? He would've been of an age to be a bit of a hero to him and if they were close then maybe Prince William was named after him.

Loved that slideshow of Sophie's hats, thanks Curly

She has had some fabulous ones over the year, always looks great.