Royal style & gossip: Breton stripes and skinny jeans...

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Previous thread. I think we'll be a bit short of royal outfits as they're all off on their holidays atm. But Kate's regatta is coming up next week, hence the thread title!

Same rules as always - keep it light, critique the clothes rather than the women, and don't believe anything printed in the Daily Mail

I like most of the gossip as well as the style chat. What I am bored of is the Meghan hate. So can we just stop that and carry on with these lovely friendly, informative and warm threads. As pp said I use them as a haven from brexit, racism, trump, ww3 looming with rocket boy. If you hate meghan, go start the millionth 'why meghan isn't good enough for our royal family' threads and I won't click on them.

I like most of the gossip as well as the style chat. What I am bored of is the Meghan hate.

Absolutely this! Which is what I was trying and failing to say people are horrible about Meghan in regards to style and gossip it's the attitude that needs to change not the topics, In my opinion anyway!

Agree re D o S. It’s the same few posters - think it’s safe to assume that their opinions are very well known by now and don’t need to be repeated ad nauseum.

Hmm not sure about all of that about PC - whilst I’m sure he’s a bit ‘demanding’ I doubt he’d be so rude to his host (re the bread).

Doesn’t ring true to me for the complete bedrooms to be delivered a day early. Where do they sleep on that night for example- the guest room? Mind you if I was wealthy enough I would demand a loo seat wherever I went!

I think the room transporting thing has to be bollocks. The toothpaste squeezed for him story started when he had a broken shoulder.

The room transporting thing is so batshit it must be bollocks surely?

The room transporting thing sounds more from the days of Henry VIII or Elizabeth I when lords had to get their entire house refurbished if the monarch was coming to stay. I know the royals are a bit behind the times but I don't think they're as far behind as that!

Erm assuming it wasn't a joke, so tell us more @Freefrops?

Oh my gosh I missed that comment @Freefrops!

Also can I just I like the gossip as long as it doesn’t get too nasty. I also enjoy the history.

This thread (among several name changes) has kept me sane during a very difficult year so thanks all, especially Queen for starting it & keeping it going.

I read that about PC and the room transportation thing too. He also doesn’t wait to be invited. The first thing his ‘hosts’ know is when the trucks arrive the day before!

I assume the houses are all staffed and whether the occupants are there or not is somewhat irrelevant.

If he is in a house, nobody can start eating their breakfast until he is present either. Although fir lunch, Camilla runs ahead to tell them he won’t be eating until later so they can start if they wish!

It really is a different world.

I always laugh when I read how thrifty they are because the queen supposedly uses tubberware to store her quail eggs!!!!

A complete MN no-no @Doyoureallyneedtoask, given some posters even think you should text someone before calling them!

That stuff about Charles is clearly rubbish! His hosts don't know he's coming until the truck arrives. Does anyone truly believe this?

It is in Tom Bower’s book.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

After seeing the Jephson book mentioned a couple of times here, I’ve bought the Kindle version – only £3.49. I’m interested in the behind-the-scenes stuff - over a range of subjects, not just royals – and from the reviews this book might give a better glimpse into how the Palace works, rather than some of the speculative “insights” from some of the media.

Aside from the Queen and Princess Anne, who barely put a foot wrong, it does seem that the rest of the family (or Palace advisers) don’t really know how they’re supposed to act. There have been way too many mistakes, or rather too many times when RF members have indulged their own whims and fancies while seeming to have no clue how their behaviours are viewed by the general public. Or maybe they don’t care about that.

I do like the fashion; although it’s mostly fanciful thinking on my part as to what I would look like in most of the outfits. I’m fast approaching the age where I’m taking more notice of what HM is wearing. I bought some sensible sandals from Hotter earlier this year. I sensibly chose the sensible grey colour, but if I’d had HM’s budget I would have bought the red version as well. Which is why I can’t understand why she doesn’t have a huge range of colours in her favourite shoe style.

Oh, the tupperware thing. I'm sure I watched a documentary where one former palace employee said that the breakfast cereal in tupperware was staged as a joke.

I can't get worked up a out private jets, especially as I understand the service they use has some kind of green/offset process. When I still have friends who don't even recycle glass or paper, I think there are bigger issues.

And I really don't believe the crap 're Charles. I have no doubt he's spoilt and self indulgent but the Tom bower stuff is ridiculous and isn't heard enough yo be believable. The bits of correspondence we see from.him plus the loyalty of his friends suggests it's all bollocks.

As for Andrew. I feel for the queen. He's her son and she probably genuinely believes he was just a bit silly. But god, why the f* did he stay friends with the man after he was arrested. Where is his bloody back bone?

So, when I say that the PoW arrived and turned the house upside down, there will be tabloids who will the. Say that Prince Charles demanded that my house was demolished and the rebuilt upside down.

It depends how well you know th me PoW. The less you know him, the more staff he brings. The better you know him, the less he needs, ie he doesn’t need to bring a butler if you already have one.

“Aside from the Queen and Princess Anne, who barely put a foot wrong”

Not sure about Princess Anne. But I would be interested in how the tabloids would react to one of the younger royals riding without a hat or having a whole train on standby and used 5 times a year...
(The riding hat thing really pisses me off- i am only here because I was wearing a hat on one occasion, and I suspect so is dd.)

Well, I did say "barely", Bertrand.

Certainly the absence of riding hats, and the absence of seat belts, are clues that some senior royals are just going to carry on doing things the way they've always done them. I know it isn't illegal to not use seat belts on private grounds, but modern cars have to have the seat-belt warning specifically disabled. So it's a deliberate modification.

The no-helmet thing is inexcusable. Even just falling from an ambling pony could have dire consequences, especially for an older person.

I've watched enough of those air ambulance documentaries to see how riders', cyclists' and motorcyclists' helmets have saved people from possible devastating injuries.

As for the royal train, I don't understand why that hasn't been put out to pasture, so to speak. There must be several train enthusiasts charities that would take it on and cherish it. It would not be impossible for an extra coach to be attached to a scheduled service for the occasional use by the royals. In fact, I can't imagine why the royal train needs to be used at all - short journeys, as in London to Kings Lynn, the Queen travels in an ordinary train in first class; long journeys, that's done by plane. So I wonder what's the royal train for.

There's gossip, and then there's character assassination. Give it a rest please.

Re the PoW - I have a couple of friends who work for him, and they both say that he is lovely.

Loving HMQ's outfit. Agree about the shoes though - I wish they were in other colours. I'd probably have a pair myself!

PCs kindness to Doria at the wedding makes me think he’s a bit of a good egg. But I’m a terrible judge of character- so I’m probably wrong!

I thought you were taking the piss @Freefrops

No way the POW could just rock up unannounced (unless he's been before like to chez Freefops. Security would need to scope it out first, which would be the hosts first clue.

I repeated what is in the book.

I have absolutely no idea. Nor do you tbh though.

MN always have a few posters who say they 'know someone who knows someone' and state something as fact as if thats the final word. Anybody on an anonymous board can say that so I'd question those posts as much as some are questioning a book that was not commented on but was not denied either.

This is a throwback pic of Macima looking absolutely stunning Fabulous hat; and check out those mahoosive diamond earrings.