Royal style and gossip: photo calls and tennis balls

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Everyone ready for a joint Wimbledon Duchessing?

If anything, it will have a negative effect if you didn't sign, because your child will most likely miss parties where the other children are invited

Do you really think so? I think the opposite. It would have a negative impact on their child! Theirs is the one who wouldn’t be allowed go to all the parties. Your child would miss just one.

AppleKatie ''.... stories about how he doesn’t flush properly or eat his peas on play dates...''

Play dates with Prince George! Jesus - imagine your DC coming home and saying ''I've asked George to come and play and he's asked his mum and she's said she'll arrange it if it's ok with you'' !!

I mean ... what actual level of getting ready for that play date would you do??

Catching up :) a while back someone asked for the label of a blue and pink dress, it was Roksanda :) Sometimes when K&M wear funny stuff I wonder why they don't have a better look on Net A Porter / Moda Operandi! Hover your mouse on any random dress, you can’t go wrong!

NDAs are tricky - never mind whether legally enforceable (how do you set out scope? Do they ever end?), where do you draw the line on who signs? I can see staff at the school signing them, and staff at KP, but not parents. Tbh, the idea of publicly talking about innocent kids is awful - or being known as a blabbermouth!

Sweet that in Wales the people were so protective. Harder in Windsor as so many tourists hoping to see the royals - I think Frogmore Cottage is empty (if renovated) for security reasons. Wouldn’t want to know where H&M are living, think they should be left alone especially with a baby to focus on.

Do we really have no other events coming up? Could only see Anne and D of Gloucester in the diary

MI5 would probably do a quick background sweep on you pre-playdate and there'd be a file on you in Thames House forever more...

Threats: toddler sibling who pinches fish fingers from everyone's plate, flatulent labrador.

Pizza, or chicken nuggets??

Nuggets would be fine as long as you tell the royal guest that they're goujons.

Must be really complicated because... say you pass the security checks, even if you feed the kids quinoa (is that still ethical?!), even if you never blab... all your convos must be sort of fake ... I’d be really awkward asking questions in case a swat team came in and bundled me away! ... and the dynamic would be so off, maybe by the time you’d get to really know W&K you’d think well that was a waste of time, we have nothing in common.

Also... imagine knowing any of them and seeing these threads! Mortifying!!

Look at the clutch Sophie carried to Wimbledon!

"I'm not saying I am Wonder woman, I'm just saying that nobody has ever seen me and Wonder Woman in the same room"

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Thanks Notmyrealname855, that was me.

I didn't even tell the owners of the farm shop when the gamekeeper started online dating. But then I have since had to sign the Official Secrets Act. Proven to be the soul of discretion me

Thanks for sharing @ElspethFlashman - that’s great fun.

Camilla wearing Camilla classic.
Prince Charles and Camilla look relaxed on visit to Cornwall
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she does give good PR

So if George is invited to a classmate's birthday party then he won't give a present? Or does that only apply to weddings?

I mean ... what actual level of getting ready for that play date would you do?? grin

I would spend two weeks scrubbing the house and probably finally get around to changing the awful living room wallpaper and the dodgy bathroom taps.

His actual friends? Probably ask the housekeeper to stay on an extra hour on the night

Goujons though definitely. And peas not beans 🤣

Thomas’s have a no best friends policy; I read when George started school.
Kate probably had her children close together precisely so they had playmates of the same age.
I think William made some good friends in search and rescue. I think he has said since, when discussing mental health / therapy; that he used to talk to work colleagues.

A lot of schools technically have a no best friends policy but I'm not sure how they'd actually enforce it!

William had really decent seeming friends from football, who never spoke to the press - www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/5843602/prince-william-5-a-side-football-ducati-motorbike/amp/

Do you think they speak openly and honestly behind closed doors of an evening? Or remain formal on important issues at all times?

Do you think the clothes get any more casual than the skinny’s and Breton tops?

Must be exhausting.

I can see the temptation of the motorbike. He must feel normal and invisible on it.

Surely the children/families at school with them (I'm operating on the presumption that it is very very selective) are equally protective of their privacy and status?

I love Sophie's bag!

Possibly not equally but I’m sure there are many other aristocratic/children of diplomats/politicians/well known parents.

The school will be set up for it and the parents will be of a class that running to the tabloids isn’t done. (By which I mean not done openly, I’m sure they are capable of being the source of any titbit we do get!)

I would be.
If my litte boy made a lovely friend and we had playdates etc and his parents were k&w, why the hell wouldn’t I? If they or their child are a friend then I would understand and be a friend.
Love the bag too!

I like kate’s Blue dress more and more, the more I see it.
And love sophie’s Bag, it’s great fun.
Bit gutted there aren’t more events coming up, I’ve become quite accustomed to seeing the royals and the frocks more often with this sudden flurry of appearances!
Although do Kate and William announce theirs that early or keep them under wraps a bit til nearer the time?

You can have time limits on NDAs, I signed one once! (And the time has run out!!)

I think the school community would be very protective of everyone's privacy.

So the Cambridges have their regatta on 9 August and then I think that's it for royal engagements for a while. They all disappear to Balmoral and pastures more exotic in August. I wonder if H&M will take Archie to the US this summer?