Royal Style - I’m not qualified but you can’t cut me off when there’s a wedding dress to look at...

[AppleKatie]

If someone else has already started one of these please direct me over. I’m not qualified to be the OP of these wonderful threads... but I typed the below and I will be heard

Neither the dress nor the tiara are my personal favourites.

But bloody hell it’s got class.

Granny’s dress and tiara turn it from ‘shameful secret wedding because daddy can’t be seen in public anymore’ to ‘intimate family occasion fully supported and loved by Grandmother, The Queen’. I think it’s a huge showing of support from the Queen to her granddaughter and that’s lovely.

Lovely news! Not a surprise but delighted for them.

Aah, lovely news.

Happy News.

He looks a lot like the guy who had his pineapple cake knocked off the plate on Bake Off this week🍍

Lovely baby news!

Lovely for them.

Lovely news 🥰

Lovely news 🧸

And love the photo too!
A January or February baby?

That's a great close up of her engagement ring. It's lovely.

@paradyning

That's a great close up of her engagement ring. It's lovely.

The stone really works well with her skin tone. Is it a fancy sapphire or something? I'm so happy for them, it's lovely news.

Yes it's a padparadscha sapphire.
It wouldn't be my choice. I prefer my sapphires blue. Each to their own.

I love it. I have a big sapphire engagement ring which stands out among all my friends' white gold diamond solitaire rings! Love a colourful stone!

I have an Emerald engagement ring (26 yrs old)
I love Emeralds.

That's lovely news about a new royal baby. Feels like we all really could do with hearing good news for a change.

I know! Something positive, because we aren't going to get a royal wedding any time soon

Royal weddings are like buses, you wait ages for one & then 3 turn up at once

Changing subject - Maireas does your name have anything to do with the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto & the Villa Mairea?

No, I don't think so! It is a version of the name Mary. I'll have to look into the villa!

Yay. A baby. Some good news.

I think Charlene looks lovely in this Jenny Packham dress, and I'm warming to her new hair. Plus she's always great at red lipstick. But she's not looking hugely happy here, and there's the usual frostiness/wooden-ness between her and PA.

The dress looks elegant, but I'm not keen on her hair like that.

Lovely news for Eugenie and Jack. I like Charlenes dress I think if your a royal go for it personally I want sparkle and gowns agree the hair is a bit of a grower but I think it suits her. Also some Meghan pictures this week...I know she was pregnant most for most of her royal duties so I get why outfits like this wouldn't of worked but personally I like Meghan's less formal style and would have liked to see that. I think this is a good mix of appropriate but modern for me anyway

She does look good in those pictures. She has a few of those Victoria Beckham blouses and she wears them well. I like the leather trousers. Her make up is spot on, as ever, but I'd be tempted to lop a few inches of hair off.

A smooth and imobile forehead too! Like charlene's.
Agree she wears that style wear. I prefer her in the greens and blues not the earth colours but the style is lovely.

Lovely dress (Charlene) and Jenny Packham is Kate's best dress designer.

Kate and her Emmy London suede clutches (she has them in light grey, dark grey, green, red and maybe more?)

Is anyone up for some repliKate items on this thread or a new one? All items £200 or less, the same or similar to Kate's?

These have just been published. Lovely to see the children again and I quite like the blue 'theme'.

Charlotte's shoes look a bit incongruous next to Louis's socks and shoes!