Royal style: Max and Wax and whacky hats

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Now that the Commonwealth event is nearly over, we have another treat ahead of us. Maxima in Indonesia!

In light of what happened on the previous thread, I'm going to take a leaf out of Elizabeth SMT Holmes' book and say critique the clothes and the styling but not the physical appearances of various royal women.

HH and M-M look to be in self-isolation, which is no surprise given her lung issues. I love what we can see of their house!

Could someone kindly link to that royal fashion course again? It sounds just the ticket at the moment!

@SeaRabbit
It's available on the FutureLearn website, and called A History of Royal Fashion. Created by the University of Glasgow I think. I did it a few years ago, it was fascinating.

Wonder if that's their island home?
Looks beautiful.
Can anyone read Norwegian? Who is the child in the awesome looking wheelchair? Not sure we'd ever get that on the NHS.

Charles has tested positive for covid-19!

Charles was at a meeting with Prince Albert who's also got it.

Gosh. Can’t help my mind leaping to the worst case scenario. And it’s ramifications.

Apparently he only has mild symptoms so he should be ok. And it's easy to self-isolate at Birkhall, I'd imagine.

There have been various comments on Twitter about how he gets to go to the north of Scotland which is asking everyone with a second home to stay away (like the Norfolk point - but they may anyway think of Anmer as their main home), and about how he got a test when NHS staff up there still can’t, and local policy (which it was claimed applied) is that there is no testing without sufficiently serious symptoms to be admitted to hospital....

I gather that in Scotland everyone over a certain age gets tested?

I read that as he's been in contact with so many people over the last couple of weeks he's considered a super spreader, another reason for testing.

Princess Marie of Denmark's and Prince Joachim's 10 year old son has tested positive. He has asthma.

Honestly, testing should be way more available. But I don' think it's unreasonable for testing to be available for people who, if they are sick and/or die, will have significant consequences for us as a country. Politicians, especially senior ones (cabinet, party leaders etc), the royal family, top level business people in key sectors (eg retail), top police and other similar services, and probably some people who may not be well known but who, if they did die, would become well known - eg senior figures in the NHS.

I'm not 100% sure about why charles and camilla went to scotland -d o they consider that their primary home? I imagine that Amner is considered primary home for William and Kate (although I note that we don't know that they've gone there, it was just speculation on my part earlier).

I imagine in times like this there is an amount of strategic planning about where specifically the senior royals are in relation to each other. Keeping them geographically apart makes sense so in that sense it’s not surprising that Balmoral has been used.
In a way Charles is most at risk- if he was to die in this pandemic it would have serious consequences for other members of the family (Cambridge’s) whereas if the queen did, well awful as it would be, the plan has been written for that.

That all sounds rather more callous than I meant it to.

The queen is at windsor (with 8 staff) Kate and W are in norfolk ..... maybe it's thought that C and C being in scotland spreads everyone out ?

Queen I don’t think that is right. My father in law is 92 and hasn’t been tested.

No the policy is the same all over the U.K. only those ill enough to need hospital admission are being swabbed. He has been swabbed because of who he is not any guidelines! I get it, I don't like it but I understand! But they are wrong to lie and make out he is being treated the same as everyone else he isn't.

Joachim and Marie’s son does not have Coronavirus. He was tested for it upon being admitted to hospital with asthmatic bronchitis, but tested negative.

👋 to everyone. Have decided I’ve spent long enough in self-imposed exile.

to all, plus and as olive branch.

(I’ve got and too for later!)

Covid-19, to be correct.

Picture of princess margaret on a visit to my local town in 1975

Also, to the poster that I was rude to. I’m sorry, I’m terrible with names so I can’t remember your username. I was out of order and i meant my apology wholeheartedly.

Anyway, that’s enough about that!

Quite a lot has happened while I’ve been away........

Loved much, if not all, of Meghan’s latest wardrobe choices! I just wish she’d sort out her fitting issues.

Kate has pulled out some surprises, hasn’t she! - of which I always approve even if they don’t always work that well. I’ve liked quite a lot of it, though.

Interesting times.

I don’t have a problem with the Royals getting preferential treatment. Well, I do in theory but not going to get in a sweat about it as I wouldn’t expect anything else really. They’re hugely privileged and there’s nothing I, nor anyone else can do about it.

I do think though that their PR people do them no favours in trying to spin their privilege as normal. And of course, others pander to it. I remember when Charles broke his arm playing polo back when he was married to Diana. Great play was made of him being treated on an ordinary ward at, I think, the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, the local NHS facility. Which was true. But you can bet your life his surgery wasn’t carried out by the on-call orthopaedic registrar. He was on an NHS ward but was in a side-room and his own chef provided his food.

I don’t get too exercised by the privilege but do hate being taken for a fool.

Checking back in.

Alexa I agree it's not that they are being treated differently I expect that. They aren't alone a lot of celebrities and wealthy people are. It's the trying to pretend they are just like us that frustrates me. It sounds to me like the senior royals are being screened regularly and routinely otherwise how would they know Camilla is negative. There is no policy about swabbing wife's or husbands of those that have symptoms or are even confirmed positive. I expect Boris and a lot of the government are also being checked regularly. They should just be honest about it!

It actually makes things a lot harder for those of us on the frontline to explain that people aren't eligible to be swabbed and what're policy meant Charles got swabbed but it doesn't apply to the rest of the public. IYSWIM.

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