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

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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?

Royal Style & Gossip. We mainly talk about clothes but we can discuss whatever else we wish too that is about royal style & gossip.

Someone on here has Kate's stripper shoes!

Lucky MNetter as those shoes are gorgeous!

The thing is TracyBeakerSoYeah being pregnant is not just gossip when your are in the public eye. For many people it is something wished for and never achieved, or something they can't sustain. We have no idea, apart from for Zara, if royal women have had losses or difficulties but the culture of it being fine to gossip about this is hurtful for lots of people.

LK Bennett made a shoe rather like that Jimmy Choo. It was called the Megan.

Yes ,loving those shoes .Very princessy in my book .

Can the thread police please stop telling people what they can/can’t discuss.

Nobody is being horrible. People are either giving their opinion or speculating as is the nature of fora. If you don’t like it ignore and move on!

FWIW I don't think K and W will have anymore kids, since having Louis, Kate seems to have really hit her stride and she just gives off really content vibes. Seems to me like she's moving from having had the kids to the next phase of developing her role as a royal, if that makes any sense. She seems more confident and more engaged when she's out and about doing engagements. Anyone know when the next outing will be?

@frugalkitty Apart from Blue Peter tonight it's just the Garter ceremony on Monday. She'll have to bring out the big guns to keep up with Max and Leti!

Slightly off topic but the D&DOS are off to Angola and Malawi in the Autumn. It hasn't been decided apparently if Archie is going with them for the whole tour. Or if it has, no-one's saying. Who knows, they might come back with a little surprise for him...

Oh yes Queen I remember the garter was mentioned now, thanks! Big guns required indeed....

Here are Kate's previously outfit so I'm not sure we will see anything that exciting from her I'm hopeful Leti and Max won't disappoint though Sophie has had a few more interesting outfits for that too

Oh I thought the Garter ceremony was a gown and tiara event. How disappointing!

I don't think so...there maybe a gown and tiara event after (that would be fabulous) but all I remember seeing in the past is them all prancing around in the ridiculous costume (the members that it)

From this I don't think it's a tiara kind of occasion.

ceremony info

Harry isn't s member yet -apparently he is unlikely to be until Charles is king (so says the Internet) so he doesn't attend so that means no Meghan either.

Bah, sounds like a boring coat dress kind of occasion. But at least Max will elevate it!

In @itswinetime pictures of DOC, she just looks so different in the first one. In her face. I've said it before on older pictures of her.

I don't know if it's weight loss, age or if she's had some subtle 'tweaks' (no judgement here!) but there's something fundamentally different about her face and I can't put my finger on what it is! I don't think it's weight loss because I don't get it when I see photos of her in late pregnancy when she's fuller in the face.

She's gorgeous regardless, but it niggles me every time I see an older photo!

And I agree with thread police packing it in. These threads are lovely and would probably have died a death a long time ago if we just stuck purely to clothes. I've also learned some really interesting royal history and background (and gasp tawdry gossip) from posters better informed than me, or - not being rude - , who are older than me who remember things I don't which has zero to do with fashion. If you see a post you don't like, report if it breaches talk guidelines or otherwise just scroll on and give it a rest!

I'm not meaning to be disrespectful when I say I thought she might be pregnant. I would love it if she was. I love a baby. I can't have more, have no family, just interested. Sorry.

motheroftinydragons I feel the same about Catherine's face. She just looks different.

I think CZJ has had work done, debuted a new fringe to hide it and no one has ever said. But then she pays a lot for someone to read the web to see what's being said about her and maybe paid for silence too.

CZJ defo has an eye lift

That white dress looks curiously back-to-front, with the zip showing at the front - you would expect the zip to be behind.

@Madamfrog a few people have said that in the press but someone posted a link to the designers page or fashion show and it's definitely meant to be that way round.

It's me who has the Jimmy Choo Vamps, er, now renamed stripper shoes! I have them in gold. Got them for my 40th in 2012, I haven't worn them for about 3 years though, knee is too dicky

Charity evening at Clarence House in aid of Elephants. DM link.

How amazing does Yasmin le Bon look. She is over 50 !

Is it just me who thinks Camillia looks a little under dressed there compared to the other 2 anyway