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...

Good grief @QueenOfTheAndals - you had me there with HM! Can't imagine she ever stands in a queue anywhere.

How tall is she and what was she buying?

Looks like William got stuck into those cakes yesterday:

www.instagram.com/p/Byk7dZxgOtX/?hl=en

And if you flip through the images you'll see Kate trying what looks like a piece of cheese! So, she does eat at these events.

Did you ask her when series 3 will start?!

@RhubarbIsEvil Not particularly tall but taller than HM, I'd imagine. It was just a queue at the post office and she had her daughter with her.

The actress who plays the QM lives near me too as I've seen her around. She has a bleached blonde pixie crop, presumably done to get as far away from Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as possible!

@AngelaScandal I should've, shouldn't I? If I ever seen Olivia Colman I will definitely ask!

Kate is out at a gala dinner tonight. Will it be a new gown or a rewear? Any colour predictions? I'm hoping not ice blue or pastel pink...

I used to love the name Eugenie when I thought it was pronounced Eugzhaynee.

Now I really don't like it at all.

That's quite a spot, Queen! I've just seen an interview with the actress who played the Queen Mother in the Guardian, worth a read if you like her.

Guardian

Sophie has made an unannounced visit to Lebanon! The skirt looks lovely, but a brown peasant blouse just doesn't sing for me.

Is the blouse leather or is that just the lighting?

Here's Leti serving up some 70s Mary Tyler Moore vibes in red.

Our very own Queen in semi royalty presence.

Mind you the actress also played Anne Boleyn IIRC-

So royalty twice over

Thanks @Wetdogloveshubert, great interview. She played Queen Victoria in a BBC drama in the early noughties too.

Yes I'd forgotten about Wolf Hall @IHeartArya. Funny to think how often actors have to play several different royals over the course of their career - Alex Jennings plays Edward VIII in The Crown but was also Prince Charles in The Queen and Leopold of Belgium in Young Victoria.

Here's someone of whom we don't see much, Leti's SiL Infanta Elena. I don't think she's the disgraced sister with the dodgy husband. She looks an awful lot like Queen Sofia, doesn't she?

Have you ever listened to the podcast with whatsisname, doctor who bloke...Oh, David Tenant, interviewing Olivia Colman?

It's quite sad really. She talks towards the end about how she doesn't really go out anymore because it's not worth it, and how it has ruined her family time with her son, etc.

I've heard William speak about his children, pretty sure he didn't say Char-LOT.

William was visiting a little girl in hospital and he pronounced Charlotte’s name as Charl-ut

So was William offering a cake to whoever was sitting opposite him, or just carefully sliding the entire plate towards him ?
(I want to go to that farmhouse for tea and cake now!)

I really want fruit cake! Might have to bake one this afternoon 😂

Damn but those cakes look good!

I'm a Charlotte. As a child I seem to recall the "LOT" being more pronounced in direct relation to how annoyed my mom was with me

I’m on a fast day & dreaming of 🍰

Funny to think how often actors have to play several different royals over the course of their career

Yes, like Olivia Colman playing the Queen in The Crown and her mother in Hyde Park on the Hudson. And of course Queen Anne.

Max arrives in Dublin dm link

Only Max could look good in a coat with what looks like a hundred gold bangles on it! Looking forward to seeing her around Ireland. How long is she there for?

That video of Kate with the little girls was lovely.

I really want cake now