Royal style: 'tis the season for tiaras, fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la

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Oh the Jordanian Royal family are so beautiful - they all seem to look like Rania. What a gorgeous photo.

Loved all those photos of Kate.

I really wish Andrew, Fergie and the girls would go off to some remote island and stay away from the limelight. And I have no sympathy for Beatrice - I mean, she is hardly contributing to society much is she? Isn't it amazing how no one in the wider RF ever decides to become a nurse or a social worker or a doctor or a fireman or anything useful? (Although hats off to William and his air ambulance, I guess he has a lot of Diana in him).

Rania has had a considerable amount of help though! I think her daughters have her eyes but resemble Abdullah otherwise. The youngest son probably looks the most like a pre-work Rania.

@paradyning The first of those stamps is Princess Anne. I think I have one in my stamp album. My mother pushed stamp collecting, as does my MIL, probably popular as one of the Kings had a stamp collection. My granny had Sealyhams from the 1930s, I think they were popular with the RF.

I loved her dress for the V&A (the red/black/check/Jackie O number) which someone posted and I think that might be my favourite day time dress she's worn.

Is it just me or does that dress look about half a size too small? Waist not quite in the right place, a smidgeon too short? Perhaps her being so slim and narrow of frame compared to her height makes the fit tricky. Still looking fabulous of course.

That dress was gucci.
She got the accessories spot on too.

@BlingLoving l agree with your DD, wear those Christmas earrings every day! 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄 🎄

I had many fergie bows in different colours. Loved them. I actually preferred Fergie to Di when I was younger because Fergie was more of a rebel to my young feminist mind and I thought Diana was just too twee and perfect as the little wife. That all changed!

Fergie had the most glorious hair. It was the first thing I noticed when she arrived into the RF.

I had similar hair to Fergie back in the day. My boss was convinced we were twins separated at birth (except mine came out of a bottle!).

I remember chasing round the West End in the mid 80s with a friend who wanted a particular black velvet bow from the Sock Shop. All sold out. Thanks to an assistant ringing round, we eventually tracked one down in the Villiers Street branch where we got locked in due to a bomb scare. The things we do for fashion...

I actually preferred Fergie to Di when I was younger because Fergie was more of a rebel to my young feminist mind and I thought Diana was just too twee and perfect as the little wife. That all changed!

Me too! If I recall, she was hailed as "the breath of fresh air" of her time .

She seemed all fun and young and everything. Until It's A Royal Knockout, and the toe-sucking, and the whole debt and payment for access thing. And lots of other not fun stuff.

A bit harsh Annasgirl I think Beatrice does do her bit particularly considering she is not a ‘working’ royal, I think it’s a shame that Beatrice and Eugenie get some much flack, I just don’t get it, their greatest crime seems to be is that they take a lot of holidays and have questionable taste in hats, I don’t think they have ever done anything to let the Queen down, so for them to be tarred with the same brush as Andrew and Sarah is unfair.

Possibly already posted but these are some of my favourite Kate looks.

Also I know it wasn’t hugely popular here but I loved the tartan Christmas maxi skirt.

But there is no one in the family (I mean the lower down, non working Royals) who does anything remotely useful - don't they all work in art galleries? I think David Linley is an exception - I remember seeing a table he made years ago in the boardroom of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY - it was amazing.

But all of the others, they just seem to loll around. I suppose it is because I am not English, I expect people who are head of state to actually have achieved something before they get the job, so I expect those waiting-in-line to do something useful. And most particularly, those not in line but in receipt of largesse.

Those jobs you have listed are vocational, if Beatrice did not have a burning desire or the aptitude to be a nurse or a social worker, but has a love of the arts, why shouldn’t she pursue it? you know like most of us do in our career choice.

What annoys me is the cost and quality of their education. Yet they seem to academically and vocationslly achieve little.

Compare to Richard Branson's daughter (I forget her name). She had the best education money can buy, so actually learnt stuff at school and got great gates. Then did medicine to train to be a doctor even though she had no real need to have a Proper Job.

Granted, she did give up her medical career for a job with Daddy soon after qualifying. But my point is that her education wasn't wasted, she achieved highly. With all the resources and cost (to the public?) of the education of the Royals, they do on the whole seem to waste the educational opportunities they have.

Who does pay the school fees for the royal children?

I think Beatrice got so much negative press because when she was with Dave she went on so many holidays. It will take years for the tabloid press to look at her any differently because royal women have to persistent negative press over their behaviour.

Well it was wasted, she didn’t put her qualifications to good use did she?

It will just come out of their income I would think.

Someone attending a private/public school isn’t automatically able to get high grades, they have to have an aptitude for learning & desire to work. I have 3 children, one of whom really under achieved at his v expensive school as his head just wasn’t in the right place. Not a lot we as parents or his teachers could do about that.

Zara is a qualified physiotherapist but I doubt she's ever treated a patient in her life! Her brother is some sort of finance bod, not sure what exactly, and I couldn't tell you what various minor royals like the children of the Kents and Gloucesters do. Apart from the Gloucester DiL who is a doctor!

I wonder why the British royal children can't go to state schools like the kids of the Scandi royals? I mean the schools near where they live won't exactly be rough...

I thought Zara did equine physiotherapy?

Anyone watching the DoC with Mary Berry?

I'm watching!

She's her signature style translates so much better in moving pictures with her personality on view, IYSWIM