Royal style: the Queen of Spain reigns in the fashion games

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Previous thread, usual rules.

Harry meets JBJV (and has new shoes - good choice Not-HRH). Also, Harry is a Beatle.

@Timetoseethetruth link to NYT please.

The historical figures site is a lovely distraction on a wet day here.

I wonder if Sophie agrees about needing new undies? I had a photo taken last year in a dress I like, and I certainly could have benefited from some better undercrackers. When you see the celebrities on red carpets they are so posed - unposed photos tend to show more wrinkles in frocks. I hope Sophie is enjoying herself, she seems lovely.

I have a bra for those days/outfits, blooming uncomfortable but does look better in photos. A push me pull you as my friend would say.

Give them some credit @justasking111, Invictus and Sentebale are not to be sniffed at! And Meghan's work with the Grenfell kitchen and Smartworks was very successful too.

<a class="break-all" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/style/meghan-markle-instagram.html#click=t.co/ehzo5ukjQX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NY times article on the battle of the royal IGs.

I didn't know that The Art Room closed @Timetoseethetruth. What a shame.

@QueenOfTheAndals I will give them credit for the past endeavours, just waiting for some future ones. A friend has spent a month yearly at Sentabale for the last decade. At the coal face so to speak. I look forward to them moving forward with future efforts when maternity leave is up.

what is baffling me is the £20 million a year on protection that is £55k a davy. Now with three shifts, that is that is £18k a shift, say three protection guys earning £6k a shift. The figures just do not add up.

I think the security costs escalate when you have 3 principals in 3 different places so need 3 teams with spares for emergency cover and then the large amount of expenses for travel/accommodation etc. But we will never know the truth of any of those figures.

Would be nice if this thread kept to the fashion though

I think both Kate and Meghan need to step away from the extensions sometimes. I loved Meghan's hair the day before her wedding when she was photographed in the blue mouret with her mother. Her whole look that day was perfect.

justasking The overall figure will include things like travel costs for the security team, shipping vehicles around the world, housing the team in various locations, admin costs, all on top of wages.
I wonder how much it has cost the Canadians so far, too much obviously, as they are now ending their contributions.

I agree MrsCampbell she looked effortlessly glossy with the perfect amount of hair!

What puts me off hair extensions i Naomi Campbells bald patches. They are pretty horrific.

Anyone can buy bots for someone else, it's not necessarily from the account holder. The New York Times article the writer was very careful to not state the possible ‘bot buying’ was happening. It was distinctly not pro- or anti-Cambridge.

It did point these out:

• All the major follower jumps in the Kensington Instagram account (in the time they shared the account) were Meghan related (when it was a shared couple account)
• The day Meghan’s engagement was announced (her debut appearance on the account), KP instagram gained 104,092 followers. It kept gaining, steadily and in occasional frenzied bursts. Over the three-day period that consisted of Meghan and Harry’s wedding weekend in May 2018, plus the Monday morning release of their nuptial portraits, **@KensingtonRoyal** acquired more than 1.5 million new followers. In the period after Meghan was effectively incorporated into **@KensingtonRoyal**, that account’s following more than tripled in size.
• From the outset, *@SussexRoyal* was runaway popular. It set a Guinness world record for reaching 1 million faster than any account in Instagram history — in 5 hours and 45 minutes.
• Nine of the 10 most-liked posts ever shared by either **@KensingtonRoyal** or *@SussexRoyal* showcase some combination of Harry and Meghan (and/or their son). Yet, no matter how many followers Harry & Meghan got, for nearly a year, they could never quite seem to reach Will and Kate.
• Data generated by the media monitoring software Cision, which tracks online media mentions, found that, from the date of the announcement of Harry and Meghan’s engagement in November 2017 to January 2020, Harry and Meghan received vastly more global online attention than did William and Kate.
• *@SussexRoyal*’s Meghan-and-Harry-centric posts received more total likes than **@KensingtonRoyal** posts centered on Kate and William. According to CrowdTangle data, the Sussexes came out around 13.5 million likes ahead.
• H&M received more than double the number of comments that **@KensingtonRoyal** did, despite **@KensingtonRoyal** laying claim, perpetually, to hundreds of thousands more followers
• The Sussexes have always had the higher interaction rate with their followers, comment numbers and “likes,” nearly double that of Kensington Royal. It took about six weeks for SussexRoyal IF to get 8 million followers. It took KensingtonRoyal more than four years to get to that number.
• The Kensington account has low engagement numbers (typical of bot followers), but the Sussex account has high engagement from their followers
• The Sussexes’ set up a ‘creator’ account on Instagram which allows a certain degree of stats to be extrapolated, whereas the Cambridge’s account is (unusually) set up as a ‘personal’ account which allows no access or oversight - not even by them. This is almost unheard of (for famous figures) and it means that no one running the account even can pull stats or monitor for bots, etc.

Titbits from elsewhere:
~ "The advocacy group Hope Not Hate analyzed a sample of more than 5,000 tweets containing the most commonly used anti-Meghan hashtags. The analysis showed that a tight-knit group of accounts is behind much of the trolling.
Twenty accounts were responsible for about 70% of the tweets, sharing anti-Meghan hashtags, pictures and memes." edition.cnn.com/2019/03/07/uk/meghan-kate-social-media-gbr-intl/index.html
~ The Kensington Royal Twitter account has barely grown in followers, despite their Instagram gaining millions
~ 20% of negative bot activity about Meghan is out of Russia (there has also been pro Meghan bot activity from Russia)
~ The majority of anti Meghan comments on the DM website were linked to a small number of IP addresses
~ "KP has mainly stayed 500k followers ahead of the Sussex account (note - they currently have same number of followers). Even if they were both gaining at similar rates (unlikely with the Sussexes having a newer account, more engaging posts, bigger life events and more media attention in the mix), with the couples having big events at different times it wouldn't pretty much be mainly the same gap. One would gain, then another."

I can see that protection work would be attractive for young people - bit of travel, well paid, food on duty... but travel and accommodation and working away from home allowances and the like would be costly. Also senior staff would be in their forties? If they have a spouse and a couple of kids it would be disruptive to keep commuting from the western seaboard - so they might have to have housing, education, healthcare there.
Realistically, it could cost more to protect the Harry family than the William family. Charles must have lots of spreadsheets!

I think Naomi has had weaves over the years where the natural hair is braided and the the weave is sewn in, if the hair is braided too tightly this can cause hair loss, with hair extensions there are so many different types for different types of hair, for example I have naturally fine hair and if I had micro ring extensions they would be too heavy for my natural hair and could cause problems long term, therefore I have tape in extensions which are very light, a hair extension professional will guide on what is suitable for the individual.

I find it bizarre that in a world with every disaster possible happening somewhere, there are people who are paid to look at Instagram accounts and their followers. Not even remotely important, but someone somewhere is getting paid for it.

H&M should pay their own way from their own pockets once they're out out. No more taxpayers money, off they pop.

We need some more fashion....is there anything much coming up that we know of?

It isn't Charles who will need the spreadsheets, it's the Met, as they will be finding the money.

Plenty @frugalkitty, Kate and Meghan are both out and about next week. Kate is off to Ireland and Meghan has the Endeavour Awards and a few other events.

And yes, let's keep this thread for clothes!

My pet theory is that there aren’t enough to farmers. A very small amount of people are feeding all of us. We should have more people working on the feeding with a lot of smaller farms (and not the current monocrop large farm system which is unsustainable in the long run IMO). The surplus of people are doing dumb shit like call centres and bot- ironically - farming.

Updos

I do think the RCMP have the best clothes of all police forces! In some thing I was reading about Kate visiting Ireland someone commented that she looks well in emerald garments.
She is visiting Galway where there is a red weather warning tomorrow, she will need the big raincoat. Although it could be spring next week.

Lots of those Meghan updos are lovely, though at times a bit too tightly scraped back I think. My favourite is her messy bun mentioned upthread and shown here.

Meghan's earrings (I did a post of Kate's lovely Kiki Mcdonough earrings previously) and some Kate ponytail pictures (my favourite hair style on her).

I wonder if small hands tugging on mummies extensions hurts as much as it does real hair.