Royal style & gossip: the gowns and glamour of the Garter

[QueenOfTheAndals]

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Now that the Orange One has gone, it's almost time for a visit from the Oranje One! Yes, Queen Max will be attending next Monday's Garter ceremony. It'll be a triplicate fashion face-off between her, Letizia and Kate - who will emerge victorious?

Laineygossip took screengrabs if the original Sun article before it was edited.
www.laineygossip.com/the-sun-sympathetic-rose-hanbury-prince-william-article-required-some-interesting-edits/55879

So a married man is not allowed to have dinner with a female friend who is a close friend of his wife? Bloody ridiculous.

@Whydoesitalwaysdothis the key phrase is *entertaining William".

I don't think the Sun were there though, were they?

The angle they're going with this time is that Rose's brother got drunk and spilled the beans on a night out. I guess it makes a change from "a source"!

Edward in a really well cut suit

Am I the only one thinking it’s reading as a one night stand? I’m certainly not getting the impression of a long term affair? Wrong still but for me personally a long term affair would be so much harder to forgive & forget.

That's a big improvement @CurlyWurlyTwirly, maybe Sophie has showed him our threads!

Edward looks quite chic there. Now we just have to get him to ditch the Postman Pat shoes. Black does not go with everything, Eddie! Switch it up to brown! Go crazy!

What I suspect with the Rose thing is it was just like we see on the Relationships board "My friend is texting DH a lot and I know she's having a hard time in her marriage but she's having DH around to hers for tea when I'm not there and I know he won't do anything but it's getting a bit much and now I'm hearing her brother is gossiping about their cosiness - AIBU?"

The answers would be solidly "she's not your friend, distance yourself and tell your DH to cop the fuck on"

So I'm not suprised there was a frostiness.

So a married man is not allowed to have dinner with a female friend who is a close friend of his wife? Bloody ridiculous.

It's the circumstances. If it had been prearranged with Kate's knowledge, that would've been fine. If she found out when she got back, that's different. Sounds like it might have been the latter.

@ElspethFlashman

That sounds very plausible. Kate is nobody's and if she caught wind; I’m sure she would nip it in the bud. Rose’s husband has obviously gone back to his -ahem - confirmed bachelor ways, and Rose was unhappy.

Nobody’s fool*

The Sun describe Kate as unruffled but I'd say she's more doing a sterling job of seeming unruffled but I imagine she's rattled by such things, who wouldn't be? I think her situation, and Meghan's is insufferable Rea, just imagine your every move and facial expression being picked apart. Fwiw I don't think Harry did anything wrong. If my DH for example, was talking during say a family wedding ceremony, I would definitely spit out tell him to zip it. Horrible to see it so analysed abd the toxic delight on the DM comments is quite frightening. People who would actually cheer at a divorce.

Wow Edward! Such a difference!

Laughing at "Postman Pat" shoes! But yes, ditch those and get a haircut and then Ed's sorted!

Who's Edward meeting there? Is that Andrew Lloyd Webber's brother? (Not a joke, ALW's brother actually is a musician and looks like that!)

That does look like Julian Lloyd Webber.

ElspethFlashman a few threads back I wrote more or less the same thing.
The damsel in distress / sympathy thing.

I think you're right QueenoftheAndals

What I suspect with the Rose thing is it was just like we see on the Relationships board "My friend is texting DH a lot and I know she's having a hard time in her marriage but she's having DH around to hers for tea when I'm not there and I know he won't do anything but it's getting a bit much and now I'm hearing her brother is gossiping about their cosiness - AIBU?"

The answers would be solidly "she's not your friend, distance yourself and tell your DH to cop the fuck on"

^^this. With all the bells, whistles and knobs in the known universe.

Is it just me who finds Rose's husband a bit of a dish? That's an old photo but even now there's something about him. But if he's a 'confirmed bachelor' then I'm not sure why she'd marry him. She was young, attractive and wealthy - she could've bagged someone her age, surely?

Weren't they sort of cornered into marriage by her pregnancy? They were married the day after they announced their engagement and four (?) months later she gave birth to twins.

I thought 'confirmed bachelor' was Victorian code for gay?

Not just you Queen , he is kinda good looking.

I’d be livid if my DH was spending his evenings with a female friend on several occasions.

Maybe he swings both ways?