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

Think it's a diamond cluster centre, with rubies and diamonds on the outer edge?

I'm not keen on it.

I think its a target ring.
A huge diamond surrounded by rubies.
Again it's not too clear in the photo.

I like that’s it is different too but I don’t like the ring itself.

School starts today in Sweden and P. Estelle starts first grade - her mother took a photo for Instagram
www.instagram.com/p/B1V96ESorbr/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

Wow Estelle looks like she's aged 10 years!

Well, no wonder that relationship floundered. Cressida wears black nail varnish

@CurlyWurlyTwirly it’s ma’am darling by Craig Brown. Very interesting - about Princess Margaret’s life.

@Doyoureallyneedtoask I’d be fascinated to know what it’s like to work for the RF - I can see why William and Harry, especially now they’re both married to non -U women and since William went to Uni etc would be pretty wtf about it all. I think the Queen must be sustaining so many royal traditions - I wonder if Charles’s will manage to keep it up.

Estelles dress is Bonpoint my Dd1 has the same one,

Camilla at a garden party at Middlewick house, her former home with APB, now owned by punk floyd drummer Nick Mason.
I like her shirtwaister dress.
Normally she doesn’t go for a cinch, but it suits her ( very Kirsty Allsop).

The house is just stunning.

Its Mette Marit’s birthday
She is definitely one of my favourite Royal Ladies.

Well, the flight to Nice was paid for by Elton John, and it was offset.

I always wondered how offsetting works?

You pay money so the arctic ice that's melted from your private jet freezes over? How does it work?

Can someone explain?

Offsetting is done in myriad ways. Here's one website which deals in it. link

Love today's pictures. It's really lovely to see Cressida engaged - she had a torrid time with the press onslaught.

Mette's pictures are gorgeous too; she glows.

You pay money, for example, to projects which reduce other carbon emissions. For example- providing people in the developing world with efficient cooking stoves. Which reduces emissions and allows the family to cook more cheaply, efficiently and safely.

So you pay to alleviate your guilty conscience?

Because no money will make the ice refreeze or the carbon disappear. But I suppose if you have money, then you can pretend it's all good.

Cressidas new fiancé works at my workplace 😁

I'm a bit sorry that Cressida didn't snap up the young Duke of Westminster!

“Because no money will make the ice refreeze or the carbon disappear. But I suppose if you have money, then you can pretend it's all good”

I don’t think abyone’s pretending. But it does mean that you can neutralise your own carbon footprint. Which has to be a good thing, surely?

Isn’t the Duke of Westminster with his girlfriend from his teenage years? Or am I thinking of someone else?

No, I don't think it is.

It makes people, rich people, think they can buy their way out of environmentally unfriendly decisions, while it actually cannot neutralise anything. The damage is done, how does money make it better?

Money is not the cure, consuming less is.

It’s a bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul isn’t it? They should be setting an example and making some personal sacrifices. The thing they keep urging us to do. Getting their friends to lend them private jets and take the flak is just dodging the bullet.

I think Hugh and Harriet have split up now Faith.

Carbon offsets are bullshit, they don’t actually do much; here’s a great overview: www.responsibletravel.com/copy/carbon-offsets

This isn't the thread for this discussion. There are plenty of RF bashing threads elsehwere, please stick to the style and gossip.