Royal style & gossip: who'll wear the most Colour at the Trooping?

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What neon shade will HM wear? Will the DoE attend? Will Kate have a new coat dress? Will Meghan make an appearance? And which of us will be able to identify every random Windsor on the balcony?

All will be revealed tomorrow...

Around 1:14 in that video - he does seem grumpy!

Kate: Cumbria and sheep farming.

Hmm. What will the literal dressing be ..... ?

Let's not read too much into some 10 seconds of footage though. No doubt the weird Megxiteers are salivating over it as evidence of impending divorce!!

@Laiste a flat cap and pipe?

Seems a bit unfair that the Swedish royal men don't have to wear costume too! Madeleine's husband is not officially a member of the royal family as he turned down a title.

Aww Kate does that thing that I do with my DC - she was playing with Charlotte's hair. I only really ever see still photos of her, so it's nice to see the more "normal mum" side of her. She'll definitely be in that Dubarry jacket & riding boots in Cumbria.

Maybe Kate will raid the KP cupboards and borrow one of Diana's jumpers.

Snorted at flat cap and pipe

I was thinking sheepskin coat

The thought of the DofC in proper countryside is very entertaining.....

Hmm well I’ve watched it & Harry seems serious to me rather than grumpy. He knows it’s going to be the national anthem so arranging his serious face. IMO

DoC will be in her Dubarry boots and quilted jacket I should imagine.

I know what you mean @BertrandRussell, she only seems to have visited Home Counties type countryside before.

She's got her DofE Gold so can't have avoided the expeditions into the countryside. But that doesn't fit the narrative does it?

I think the DoC is as tough as old boots and very sporty. She'll have tramped around Balmoral plenty times.

Oh I think she’s very sporty- didn’t she play hockey for her university? But she seems very..urban..if that’s the right word.

Looking at that photo of Diana I’m struck again at how young she was! What were her family thinking!!!!

I think Kate's pretty outdoorsy. Her life in Anglesey and Norfolk won't have been particularly urban. She's not especially horsey though. Although I could see her getting more so if the children have ponies.

“Looking at that photo of Diana I’m struck again at how young she was! What were her family thinking!!!!”
What was the nation thinking? I am old enough to remember it, an I don’t think anyone even thought about it. People just thought it was charming.

^^
This.

There’s nothing urban about Norfolk, that’s for sure.

The marriage was cooked up by the Queen Mother and Diana’s grandmother Ruth, Lady Fermoy.
I don’t think either Charles or Diana were given much say.

@MissSueFlay thanks for posting those images of the jewels. That tiara in the final image is just breathtaking.

The picture of Diana really reminds me of youthful pictures of my Mum. Same age(ish), same fresh faced grumps in pictures in the countryside

Cumbria is proper tough farming country though, isn't it? Quite different to living at Anmer Hall. Anyway I guess they'll get presented with a somewhat sanitised version of what goes on, but the sheep shearing will be interesting to watch!

But she seems very..urban..if that’s the right word. But she's a trooper, Bertrand She's been involved with the Royal family for around 15 years. To me they're glorified farmers.