Royal style in the time of corona

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Will we see any royals out and about anytime soon?

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Was it Alice Keppel who was one of Camilla's great-great etc grandmothers?

Wow @Becles, don't they all look thrilled by that turn of events??

Yes exactly @QueenoftheAndals - Mrs G was the illegitimate (but respectably raised as the daughter of a widow and financed by her father) daughter of a wealthy Scot who then married her mother, while everyone maintained the polite fiction she was his step daughter. He told everyone she was due to inherit the bulk of his vast fortune and she married one of the Prince of Wales’s (to be Edward 7th) friends who had class but needed cash.

Quite Belgravia!

It’s the same with sapphire - the most sought after is the true cornflower blue colour. It’s all about which is the rarest colour within the spectrum, I think.

QM was also a bridesmaid.

It doesn't look very jolly. I sometimes wonder if there isn't much smiling in very old photos because maybe their teeth weren't great. Of course, it might just be that they had to hold the pose/expression for so long a smile would have ended up like a grimmace so it was easier to be serious.
They were the couple who were in the Downton film I watched last week.

The QM was ahead in fashion with her very dark eyebrows

I never noticed the resemblance between Princess Mary and George VI until now but it's actually quite uncanny! I thought she was already Princess Royal at the time of her wedding but clearly her aunt was still alive at that point.

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don't they all look thrilled by that turn of events??

Gemstone grading

Rubies
Sapphires
Emeralds
Amethysts

Oof I really dislike those 1920s low headdresses, everybody looks sullen and somehow frizzy and blowsy (to use a very perjorative phrase!).

Think I've asked this before but was Mary's DH Lascelles related to the Tommy Lascelles?

Yes, they were first cousins @paradyning.

"Leading the list of attendants was Princess Maud of Fife, only daughter of Mary’s aunt, Princess Louise, the Princess Royal."

The article is wrong here. Maud had an older sister, Princess Alexandra. Interestingly, when Edward VII made Louise Princess Royal, he granted the title of Princess and the style Highness to her daughters, who would otherwise not be entitled to that as female line descendants. When George V issued Letters Patent in 1917 limiting royal titles and styles, he did not de-princess them, but asked Maud not to use her royal title. Alexandra had married Prince Arthur of Connaught previously so she was HRH Princess Arthur by marriage and Duchess of Fife in her own right (from her father).

I think, and @SenecaFallsRedux, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Duke of Fife is the first person in the line of succession to the throne who isn't a descendent of George V?

I am pretty sure that's right, @QueenOfTheAndals. He comes after a whole bunch of Lascelles, who are descended from George V, of course. The Duke of Fife is a Carnegie and after various Carnegies come the Norwegian royals.

Kate's Emmy London items

Rebecca pumps (stiletto heel) - £395 each
Josie pumps (block heel) - £395 each
Natasha clutches - £350 each (the red version is a custom one)

Kate needs to buy the Natasha clutch in the 'riviera blue', 'nude blush' and navy shades!!

More photos of the Dutch royals

Looks like Max's daughters have inherited her love of clothes. The middle one is the most like her and the oldest is the spit of ex-Queen Beatrix.

Kate's Gianvito Rossi shoe collection

I like those black GR block heels in the top right corner.

Very interesting reading all the royal history posted today. Thanks!

Ooo when did she wear the strappy ones. They're a bit racy for Kate!

She wore them to Bhutan, but I'm not sure if she wore them again.

Dress - Tory Burch

I'm surprised Kate hasn't her toenails painted.

I don't think that's allowed

Kate's definitely had pedicures.

I bet there's no actual rule against pedicures and probably not dark nail polish either.