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

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Why are people "baying to know what skin tone he has" when we've already seen his skin? Honestly I think some people are trying to whip up racism where there is none just for their own kicks.

@AnneEyhtMeyer check out some of the other threads on here. It's disgusting.

I'm certainly not 'whipping up racism' !!

But @motheroftinydragons you said this:

I also think they keep doing black and white or filtered shots of him because people (or the media) are baying to know what skin tone he has or what hair colour/texture

You can't blame posters on other threads for your own post. We have seen his skin. Posting like this is whipping up a frenzy that doesn't exist.

I also think they keep doing black and white or filtered shots of him because people (or the media) are baying to know what skin tone he has or what hair colour/texture.

I think you have a point but it's a mistake to assume that any interest is negative and I believe they are being over sensitive about it.

I've posted several times that I'm delighted that the Royal family has a member with mixed race heritage. I'm genuinely interested to see if Archie follows his mother's colouring (looks like it from the shots we have seen so far). I suppose my interest is due to being a redhead, whose genes have faded out in my DC. To me, Archie has interesting colouring on both sides.

@queenofarles

Yes that's exactly who I meant.

@AnneEyhtMeyer - I was giving an example of content I'd seen on other MN threads about them and elsewhere online. Not my personal thoughts on the matter. I was saying there is an interest from this angle - because I've seen it for myself.

Whipping up a frenzy indeed

I wonder if all this "secretiveness" is Harry's misguided attempt at trying to get back at the media for the way they hounded his poor mother? Going about it the completely wrong way though, may I add! He comes across a bit like an "act first, think later" kind of person so he may not see the consequences of his actions.

Not sure how to link but I liked Princess Anne’s outfit at the Holyrood garden party yesterday- very clean cut, mint green thing. The Queen must be dying for her holiday!

@Queen you are quite right - my faulty memory!

Princess Anne’s outfit at the Holyrood garden party yesterday

And there's Nicola peeping over Anne's shoulder!

Thank you @SenecaFalls !

I'd love to see Princess Anne with a more modern haircut. I know she likes to get her money's worth out of things but that chignon she's had for the past 40 years is so dreary.

Comparing Archie to Anne's children ect doesn't work IMO.

The Queen started her family 70 years ago back when the Royal Family was not speculated about the way it is now. They were all up there on a golden pedestal above and beyond much of the public's opinion, and add to this that there were 4 of them. Charles, heir to the throne, and ... the others. The dynamic is just totally different from Diana and 'TheTwo Boys'.

The interest has always been mega watt. Growing up together. Photo'd together. Together behind her coffin. Together getting through the aftermath. William and good old Harry. Just the two of them.

But now they're grown up and they're men and it's time for Harry to decide if he's going to still happily trot along next to his (slightly more important) brother or fade back a bit and enjoy that. Harder for him than for Anne and Andrew and Edward back then. Harry has no siblings to fade back alongside. Is he at all jealous of William? Maybe he wants to step back but finds it hard? Maybe he hasn't got a plan at all!

I just can't imagine Anne without that hair style. My mum has had the same hair style as the Queen for the last 50 odd years. She wears head scarves like the Queen too. She's never been interested in hair styles beyond it looking neat and "respectable".
I suspect that the Queen and Anne have a similar practical approach. They probably care more about their horse's manes than their own. 😁

You're right. It would be like the ravens leaving the Tower. Everything would collapse if the 1970s chignon made way for a trendy lob

I think the issue for Anne is that a bob or something similar would take more work. I am pretty sure she does her hair herself most days: brush, sweep up, pin, job done.

i suspect the statements are because those questions will be asked by the royal reporters. Who then put their own spin on it when they publish (yes, I'm looking at the DM but to be honest, they all do - see The Times headline of "Meghan has demanded a private christening.")

I think by putting it out they're at least hoping that some of their wording will get out there.

But here's the thing, and why I'm surprised that their new PR person is not getting it, that assumes a certain amount of reasonableness and rationality. And in fact what we see is a huge swathe of the population who will happily take whatever is written in the press without looking further. And another huge swathe who even if they see the original statements, flat out don't believe them or read them in a way that makes no sense to the rest of us.

Their new PR person worked for Hilary Clinton. she should know this better than anyone. in which case possibly the PR is simply designed to try and maintain support from existing base. But even that isn't working.

DM used to wear headscarves in the 70s. Like the queen and Anne. Don't think she's worn one since then mind you. (She has had the same hair style since the early 60s She chopped her waist length dark hair off and got a perm when she got married to my dad and that was that. And she was only late 20s. I really think she got old before her time tbh.)

The ubiquitous perm. When i was little I used to have to go with DM to our neighbors house and wait while she helped her with her home perm. Lord the lotion STANK!! I hated it. I wonder if B Palace used to have the smell of the old perming lotion wafting the corridors when Her Mage got a refresh?

I’m sure Scobie will shortly tweet about the sweet and romantic story behind keeping the godparents names private, and how Harry planned it all himself. While Meghan has absolutely no clue

This is so brilliant. And so plausible.

The character of Princess Anne in The Windsors is hilarious. Every time I see the PA chignon it comes to mind!

The PR handling around H&M is bizarre. I think it may be M being a bit American and feeling obliged to share when what they really want to do is keep Archie to themselves and the people they care about. H certainly wouldn't give anything away if he could get away with it.

They need to say less, not more. Announcement of christening, photos to be released, end of. Then a day or so later, a couple of decent COLOUR shots of baby Archie, Meghan in a lovely outfit, Harry looking chuffed, and we'd all be happy till Archie's first birthday.

And is it just me who now feels a tiny bit cross with Archie's camera-shy godparents, about whom I wouldn't previously have given the shiniest of shits?

Visit to Wales by 8 yo Prince Charles and his family

We talk about Prince Andrew being number 2. But because of the 10 year age gap; actually it was Princess Anne who was most often with Prince Charles on many engagements. They were the William and Harry of their day because the Queen effectively had 2 families.

There's 12 years between Charles and Andrew and 16 between him and Edward!

Meg’s at Wimbledon

Duchess of York promoting children’s air ambulance

Don’t forget she got helicopter flying lessons as ,a wedding gift and had a licence. She also wrote those Budgie books.