Royal style & gossip: a visit from He Who Must Not Be Named

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Tracy Thanks for these photos of the Queen. She's a very practical woman.

Kate looks fab today, super smart too!

I thought we'd agreed that Kate is channeling the Queen in that her one colour coat dresses are her work uniform. Maybe the colours will get brighter as she gets older.

Much prefer Meghan's look.

I personally like tailored claddic clothes which is Kates thing. Personally I often think the proportions and balance of a lot of Meghan's clothes is just jot quite right.the idea might be right but in lots of things the execution just doesnt work for me. She's still new but hopefully she'll improve her poise to be less actressy and more regal.
I like a classic style i think thats what it is.
rhubarbit was at a do of PC's at St James.

She's still new but hopefully she'll improve her poise to be less actressy and more regal.

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It's so refreshing seeing those pics of Megs again. That girl has style!

Kate's uniform is perfectly respectable. I'm so bored I can't speak. Don't think the earrings go with the outfit though, especially with the gold brooch. Late can't do accessories very well in my book.

Why is any negative comment about Meghan always taken as racist? It could simply be because a poster prefers one style to the other.

Personally I think Meghan has had a few misses pretty much the same as Kate would have done if she’d not been in training for so long.

Kate is dressing for prosperity. Luckily for Meghan she doesn’t need to the same degree, she’ll be able to have more flair.

Not relevant but wanting to say - Sophie started off as boring & look at her now.

Charles and Camilla handled the second dinner with Camilla arming herself with that full glass of red wine, which must have scared the white clad Ivanka.

Camilla strikes me as a woman with enough chutzpah to actually trip over the end of a rug and gleefully empty a glass of red over an offending party.

Close up of Theresa May’s outfit.
I like the dress and jacket; but I find the hat a tad fussy for the clean lines of the outfit.

Camilla’s dress is immaculate and I guess that’s what you get when you pay thousands as opposed to hundreds for an outfit.

Just musing about Camilla in general. I do think she will be accepted as Queen on her own merit. She is warm and popular with everyone she meets.
This does not detract from the fact that Diana was an amazing person, and I was a huge fan back in the day. She’s been dead more than 20 years. Her sons are happy and family men. She was an extremely important historical figure, but also had her own frailties and insecurities.

Had she lived, I don’t think “ she would have been the mother in law from Hell” as is sometimes quoted on these threads. I hope she would have had a happy second marriage and become the great humanitarian she was destined to be. Instead that legacy has been passed to her sons, who are picking up at roughly the age Diana was when she died.

ILoveAnya, I love the way predictive text has changed posterity to prosperity 😊

Prince Oscar of Sweden in a tiny suit

All the swedes in traditional dress
More close ups of tiny Oscar

Letizia in Hugo Boss fancy pants

It’s a bit different for her; but I like CP Victoria in this floral maxi dress.

I do feel for Prince Daniel. I know he went to Prince train8ng school, but after a decade, I’d like to see him ditch the hair pomade and the Clark Kent glasses.
He used to be a personal trainer; so must be pretty fit under that suit. He’d look good in a looser style.
He’s the Swedish male equivalent to Kate; sticking to an ultra conservative style.

Giraffe I was at a St James' Palace do, dress code black tie.

One guest turned up in essentially a basque and thigh high boots, and PC didn't bat an eyelash.

Now I know why: it clearly happens more often than you'd think!

Love those cute kids! I’ve often wondered what the English National dress is - I say English because Scotland has kilts (and tartan sashes for the ladies) and Wales (I think, but I’m happy to be corrected) has bonnets. The only thing I can think of is Morris Dancer attire which says it all. Anyone else got any ideas?

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RhubarbIsEvil I don't think there is an English national dress, unfortunately. I recall 'international day' at DC's primary school being a total PITA because all the children with non English heritage turned up looking amazing (some in full costumes). In stark contrast the English ones turned up looking very boring in lame 'white' (and many of the boys wore England football or Rugby shirts). Like you, I could only think of Morris Men as reflecting anything close to 'national dress'.

Think TM looks very fetching in the outfit she wore yesterday, although it looks as if it could have done with a good iron.

If I had to do English national dress I think I'd be going along the lines of wench/milk maid. No idea about the menfolk though. I can't get past morris men either! What about Welsh men or the Northern Irish?

Ponders...

Isn't the Welsh national costume similar to the Breton one really?

Totally gratuitous shot of SFF and HSPM. Lucky Letizia gets to hang out with both at official events!

Love Leti's earrings here.

Kate looked great yesterday. Uniform but good.

Kate looked good, clean lines and no 'Look at all my buttons, I have a whole haberdashery's worth on there you know' buttons. 👍

Liking Leti's trousers there!

I just think Meghan struggled with the double whammy of pregnancy and totally, totally different role in life. I mean, who wouldn't?! Once she's back from mat leave I think she'll find her mojo - I loved some of her immediate post-wedding looks, like that green leather skirt and silk shirt combo, or the navy dress she wore to the polo.

National dress is very interesting because it's connected to the emergence of the nation states and the idea that everyone within the nation states borders shares a culture. Some countries really went for that idea, incl Sweden. I absolutely hate the Swedish national "folk" costume that our poor Royals are forced to wear. Ugly thing. Poor Sofia comes from a region where folk costumes are very important and worn at every big occassion, and her area/county/village whatever costume is much nicer . And not that the dress was originally composed just for women so only the poor women are forced to wear it, the little decorative creatures. The men are in suits, even though there is a men's version too. Bleurgh.