Royal style: the Sussexes in Africa - it's gonna take a lot to drag us away from them...

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As always, let's critique the clothes and not the wearers.

come on you cannot instruct someone to get engaged just to take the heat off elsewhere.

Yeah I really don’t believe that’s how it works.

Don't know if Bea was the OW but he did have a fiance before and has a toddler so the timeframes seem condensed if not overlapping.

I don't know about anyone else, but I have never suggested an engagement might have been delayed.

It's just the announcement that might be timed.

C'mon - people get engaged when they want, as they do, of course they do. But they can be engaged for an hour, a day, a week or a month (or even longer) before it's public knowledge.

And, if you might potentially get married at Westminster abbey or Windsor castle (or an number of HM's churches I can't name at the moment) because you are 9th or less in line to the throne, then it's an up-in-lights announcement.

The media have been so horrid about british royals getting married here, costs of security, waste of time and money. I reckon they will choose Italy where the proposal took place. Added to that Fergie was checking out locations there last month for some good reason.

That true, that’s perfectly possible, and also quite reasonable IMO.

It's always possible that they don't WANT too much attention and are happy to share the limelight with other royals.

I think it might be another Windsor wedding to allow HM to attend.

Pretty sure she wasn't the OW. When they met he seemed to have full custody of the child.

Pictures on twitter of Wiliam & Kate at the Boaty McBoatface launch, Kate in a blue coat dress that I'm sure I've seen before. She looks lovely but more formal than I expected that she might be today.

I also read (on E! online - high quality source!) that Meghan has given a big bag of Archie's grown out of clothes to the mothers with HIV charity that she visited. I think she's doing really well on this trip.

Isn't this Kate's "Mary Poppins" coat that she wore earlier this year? If not then it's very similar!

Actually no it isn't, this is the coat she wore previously.

Both awful imo

The cut of the first one is better though. And does suit someone of Kate's physique.

Beatrice's dress is gorgeous. Where is it from?

She looks so happy and I'm pleased for her. I felt so bad that her ex strung her along.

I'm a bit confused about her fiance though. They must have gotten together when his little boy was a baby and I am sure I read that his ex only found out they had broken up when news emerged of him dating Beatrice? Also where does it confirm he has full custody?

I think Beatrice will have a British wedding similar to Eugenie's but maybe a different venue.

Those powder blue things are horrible! Is the first one Emilia Wicksteed? I never like anything by her!

The one with the cape is Burberry, if I remember correctly.

Or Mulberry?

Oh never mind, I can’t remember!

@BertrandRussell It's McQueen and apparently a rewear. The one with the cape is indeed Mulberry.

Bea's dress is Zimmerman apparently

Would love to see what shoes Bea is wearing.

Bea's dress
www.net-a-porter.com/gb/en/product/1145236/Zimmermann/allia-floral-print-linen-maxi-dress

Ugh! Posted before I finished/edited. Esotropia not endotopia. Surgery gives good results. But a lot of babies have this and it resolves itself without interference

Did my other post disappear anyway? I give up!

Zimmerman PR must have the royals on speed dial since the KM broiderie dress

Love the Zimmerman dress! She looks amazing and very happy.