Royal style & gossip: strawberries, serves and sartorial splendour - anyone for tennis?

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Hottie Haakon is looking sharp as nails there.
( I’m not seeing any swf about Ingrid of Norway).
I think she is just a perfect blend of her parents. She is however a very beautiful 15/16 yo.
I also have a soft spot for Prince Sverre. Can you imagine Prince aGeorge doing the dab on the BaP balcony

Diana with Jemima Khan in Lahore.
Jemima and her siblings definitely take after their mother; Lady Annabel
Jemima with her former husband Imran Khan; former Playboy Cricketer / current President of Pakistan.

I think the Pakistan trip will be very interesting to follow.
What’s the betting Kate is having a blue & White Shalwar kameez run up for her tour wardrobe?

We got an email from a genealogy site this morning explaining how my sisters and I are 6th cousins to Diana

@BigGreenOlives

That Private Eye Article was interesting; so it is what was initially supposed; that Meghan & Kate don’t get on...
The carriage ride at a Trooping the Colour seemed very genuine though.

Anyway, at the end of the day, the Sussexes will have 10_15 years of high wattage fame. I guess they are (rather cack handedly) trying to make the publicity about the Duke and Duchess, rather than Archie (which is their choice / understandable).
However H&M are only going to be young & glam for the next decade, so chasing a youthful, Instagram US market does not bode well for longevity in appeal.
In 10-15 years, Harry and Meghan are going to have the ( muted) appeal of Prince Andrew. The York Family had a boost with Eugenie’s wedding, but that will not necessarily be available to H&M with Archie as a private citizen.

However, even between Harry and Meghan; their approach seems different. Harry wants to shield Archie; with the implication that Meghan would be okay with him being seen more. However Meghan is getting the flack for “Jigsaw Archie”.

The Cambridges; by contrast, seem to be taking palace advice and are building a more enduring role. Their “ brand” has always been very family oriented. But that is what pro Monarchists buy into; the Royal “Family”..

Kate snapped on a normal camera phone. She is unbelievably narrow across the hips.

A treat for Maxfans

Summer portrait from Carl Phillip and Sofia

Not a great angle on that photo of Kate as she looks weirdly proportioned. I think perhaps because it's been taken from lower down? Always be photographed by someone taller than you, it's far more flattering!

@beanaseireann another article says she has her children with her but that one said she was in Germany

Wait... Wait... Is she actually narrower than the kids on either side of her??? WTF?!

Was just thinking that! Wtf!!

Love that private eye call HM Brenda

That was really nice of William.
He probably said "Ah feck it I'll go out to them, I know it's probably not protocol but to hell with it. She's my Mum and they remember."

I think she has her hips back in that photo so looks narrower. I think the children are from a specific part of the population, they are solider than all but one of the children at school with any of my children when they were that age. One of my now adult daughters is a similar build to DOC, v slight especially through the hips.

Lol, people will be saying it's photoshopped next.

She must be standing at a bit of an angle. I know she’s thin, but her hips look narrower than her shoulders in that!

No that's true, there's video of her arriving.

Jemima with her former husband Imran Khan; former Playboy Cricketer / current President of Pakistan.

That was always such an odd marriage 🤔

Jemima has never remarried has she? I think she was with Hugh Grant for a few years though. Imran remarried but that didn't last long and I'm not sure if he has a wife atm.

Jemima was only 20 or 21 when she married him, so there were some Diana parallels.

Wasn't she linked with someone ridiculous a while ago and came out and denied it on Twitter? I can't remember who it was though.

Imran is married now,think it’s wife number 4!

The age difference between him and Jemima was big, I thought he looked in his thirties at that time, but actually he was in his early forties, !

Didn’t James Goldsmith commented on the Marriage by saying Imran would make a great first husband for his daughter!

this is getting weird I mentioned the snub couple of days ago, will they comment on every single thing we say? It’s beyond ridiculous,

Those photos take me back. Wtf with people holding a vigil for Diana? Just don’t get that at all but good on William going to talk to them.

Sophie in Scotland. Apparently they were made the Earl and Countess of Forfar this year? A looooong extinct title. Not sure why - could it be strategic for when he inherits the DoE title that he has a Scottish Earldom first not just an English one?

Anyhoo, she's wearing a Gabriellla Hearst dress and a Prada jacket that looks a few years old as it's quite boxy.

I like all of these pieces but not together, whyyyyy???

That was nice of William but he must be thinking "WTF?" at these people in tears, 21 years on, for a woman they never even met.

That Meghan article is just the Mail stating the bleedin' obvious - she was on maternity leave! Kate only did the Trooping and maybe a handful of informal events when she was on maternity leave with her children so it should come as no surprise to them.

It was kind of William but no doubt he will be expected to do it every year now, and more and more people will turn up on the off chance of meeting him or getting their photo in the DM.

Imran Khan was definitely a looker in his youth and looked younger than his years too.