Royal style in the time of corona

[QueenOfTheAndals]

Will we see any royals out and about anytime soon?

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I have wavy coarse hair, plus I live in one of the world's most humid climates. As my hair has grown, it seems to be even worse. After consulting Youtube, I bought this: Revlon One Step Hair Dryer. It lives up to the hype. One suggestion, though: the highest heat setting is very hot. It works fine for me on the lower heat setting. It also has a cool setting. It has definitely helped me be Zoom ready.

I've recently discovered Innolux Elixir as a leave in conditioner and loving it. Also using a Revlon Deep Conditioner but don't like it as much as find my hair feels a bit heavy afterwards. But am using it on DD's curly hair.

I’m pretty sure the RF have their dressers still working during lockdown. I think she’s letting it grow to avoid making it so obvious she’s still being ‘tended to’.

Thank you all for your help re frizzy mess

As a member of Historic Royal Palaces I just got an email notification that Lucy Worsley is doing a live Crowdcast on Thursday entitled Royal Fashion Curator Talk along with the Royal Dress Collection Curator, Eleri Lynn, for a trip inside the Royal Wardrobe.

It's free, but donations are encouraged and you need to reserve a place

https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/whats-on/royal-fashion-curator-talk/?utmcampaign=655499ADSOLLMKTRoyalFashionCuratorTalk&utmmmedium=email&utmsource=Historic%20Royal%20Palaces&dmmi=5K55,1EKT,2T90Y,5651,1#gs.6pkufn

In the absence of Royal events, I thought I would share my encounter with a Royal friend yesterday. Alice Naylor-Leyland is a friend of Eugenie’s and has her IG account as @MrsAlice. She is the one who dresses her children as 1950s throwbacks.

She was at Waitrose yesterday with her son. I obviously couldn’t take any photos so here is a written account of her outfit.

Pastel blue double denim, bell bottom jeans. Very wide.

Son was in normal clothes, so normal that I can’t remember what he was wearing. Alice waited by the car while her sister (I think) did the actual shopping wearing a fur coat and cashmere joggers, which is why I noticed them in the first place.

So, the 70s are back with a vengeance and it’s time to burn our skinnies.

I think the day Kates Moss and Middleton step out in jeans other than skinnies will be the day they are well and truly over!

2016 Chelsea Flower Show - custom Catherine Walker coat dress, LK Bennett Fern heels

Her denim shirt had colourful embroidery on it. It was as if she’d stepped out of Glastonbury c1976.

Ah. I've only just succumbed to the skinnies.....does this mean my big chunky legs I can go back to boot cuts?

Yup!!

For anyone with a Kindle (or the app) the Anne Glenconner book, Lady in Waiting is only 99 pence today. I’ve not read it yet, but it looks like a good fun read.

Thanks @Ada, I've downloaded it to my kindle now. She was hilarious on Graham Norton but, reading through the lines, her husband was emotionally abusive and she lost one (or was it two?) children?

Ooh, thanks for that. Will log on and pick it up now.

I’m pretty sure the RF have their dressers still working during lockdown. I think she’s letting it grow to avoid making it so obvious she’s still being ‘tended to’.

Honestly, I think this level of conspiracy is crazy. If she has a hairdresser with her, they wouldn't be doing half hearted efforts. I can see the possibility of her hair being coloured professionally still, in her home. Or at the very least, using professional products, mixed by her hair dresser standing two metres away etc. But not on a day to day basis.

Lady G was the one who said The Duchess of Sussex 'didn't understand she would have to work hard' and believed she could 'drive around in a golden coach' when she joined the royal family.

People like Glenconner have never worked real jobs and lived cosseted, somewhat dissipated lives. They’re not exactly products of a meritocracy. I doubt they could handle hundreds of smear articles and being constantly undermined, while keeping up with their work, but she was fine with the pile on to plug her book.

Honestly, that lazy Meghan Markle, riding around in her golden coach! The nerve of her! I mean really, in between having a baby, organising/carrying out her work, editing a magazine, the Smartworks capsule clothing collection, helping the Hubb open full time and helping them with ideas and getting a publisher, moving to a country, going on tours, setting up a new foundation, etc all in 2ish years? Why she’s positively a loafer! Ha!

I am sure the duchess can manage her hair from day to day. Lady G. is a weird one always reminds me of Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds.

I just did the pony tail hair cut on my split ends, wow it looks so much better. Kate can dig out the dog clippers and have a go at William not much there to make a mess of these days.

Lady G had a very difficult life and is from a very different time. I loved the book.

I enjoyed the book too, but it really was a different world she inhabited from the one that most of us live or lived in. The one universal experience, though, is loss. And she had plenty of that in her life.

Did Lady G's husband bring her, on her wedding night to a brothel ?
How crass!

I don't think it was quite on their wedding night but it was definitely on their honeymoon!

Apparently these are all the times Kate has channeled Diana but I think most of it is mere coincidence!

I agree QueenoftheAndals- just coincidence.

Think I posted this interview before with Lady G and Hadley Freeman.

Agree with what Seneca said totally.

And very glad I wasn't born an aristocrat in the early 20th century.