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.

From the few pix I saw, it looked amazing, and I think Beatrice and Edo have shown the way to go now.

They must have been so relaxed and enjoyed the day so well. That's obvious, so Less is More. Who wants TV cameras and all that all around them.

Saved the taxpayer all the security costs aswell. I do realise there were issues there, but honestly it looked to me to be so effortless and non me me me. Well done, and wish them every happiness.

I came across this photo on Instagram. HM had similar sleeves on her dress. Bea looks so happy, it's lovely to see

I really love this wedding, my favourite Royal Wedding by far. On the one hand I'd love to see more, but on the other I hope Bea is able to maintain her privacy if that what she wants. After all she's going through with her father I wouldn't blame her for not wanting every detail to be picked apart.

I think it must have quite liberating for Bea to escape the “73 embroiderers working in 9 hour shifts for 3 months creating 123 varieties of flowers on a 30 ft veil” syndrome, that most Royal brides seem to suffer from.
I was quite disappointed that Megs wasn’t more experimental/less conservative with her wedding dress choice, so I’m especially pleased that Bea did something a bit different, and it worked so well.
It’s often said on these threads that the York girls are able to take more fashion risks than Kate, and it’s great that Bea and Norman Hartnell together pulled it off! 😘 😘

On that photo of HM on her wedding day, you can clearly see the gap just off centre of the tiara where it had snapped in half that morning, and had been hastily temporarily repaired by the “man from Garrards”! I’m sure the Queen Mum would have had a swift G&T while that was being done.

I was really annoyed that the tiara snapping incident was something that was left out of The Crown.

Although I do vaguely vaguely remember reading somewhere that the Queen Mums's response was to reassure the panicking bride that they had two hours left until the wedding and anyhow 'there are other tiaras'!

We do get shorter as we age. Maybe the Queen was 5ft 4 as a younger woman - smithing to do our spine I think. But I agree, I think she looks much shorter than that too now.

I want to know who snapped the tiara and were they sacked?

The man from Garrards didn't do a great job.----

I'll just grab my coat and race out the door.

Rumour has it that he and the culprit, a hairdresser, were beheaded at the Tower later that day!

I love that Bea got her day without all the press intrusion, she's been over shadowed by PA stories every step of the way. It looked so relaxed and the Queen played it perfectly. The dress, although not my favourite was exactly what the day demanded. They look so happy and I love the fact they were glamping afterwards. Can't wait to see Eugenie and Fergie's outfits. I wonder if the haste is because both Bea and Eugenie are hoping to start families soon or if it's purely before the shit hits the fan with PA.

@AdaColeman

I saw some photos of this on Instagram this morning. Did Princess Michael of Kent wear this same tiara? She was a divorcee so she and Prince Michael of Kent also had a very small wedding.

Princess Beatrice is so pretty, isn’t she? I had never really noticed before but her hair is the most beautiful colour.

The Kent tiara is very similar (and nicer imo)

orderofsplendor.blogspot.com/2012/11/tiara-thursday-kent-city-of-london.html?m=1

The various Royal Families have several similar tiaras. The one Lady Gabriella wore was a wedding gift to her great grandmother princess Marina in the thirties (from the city of London I think). That shape was very fashionable for a long time, now a classic shape.

You'd never think I have a serious job, the amount of royal jewellery and dress history trivia I have absorbed over the years....

I think that the Queen's tiara probably has been put on a new frame after her snappy wedding and is less fragile now.

The spiky bits aren't as tall as on HM's.

Yes, the Kent City of London fringe tiara was a wedding gift to Princess Marina.

Beatrice looks beautiful, i love the dress, and the tiara, would have worn it for mine, definitely !
My favourite Royal wedding dress ever. Perfectly pitched for the times too.

@BackforGood

I thought Bea was taller too, but apparently she’s the same height as the queen - 5ft 4.

I met her last year she casually drops into the conversation and she was wearing completely flat footwear as had just fallen down the stairs

She isn't very tall.
She was completely lovely though.

I wondered if the Queen had had the dress altered into a calf length evening dress at some point, as it looked much longer on her...

Photos of Prince George released tonight with his 7th birthday tomorrow....
twitter.com/chrisshipitv/status/1285688761892970500?s=20

he looks a very cheeky, cheery chap!

Lovely picture of George released this evening.

Can't believe that he is 7 tomorrow.

Love this one...

Crickey he looks like his great great uncle (?) Edward (eyes and mouth).

George is really growing up! He looks more confident/relaxed in these pics than I've seen before, although the fact he's posing for his mum probably makes the difference!

Lovely pic of George! That blonde hair looks like his dad's when he had his handsome blonde mop in his teens/early twenties!

They are lovely photos. Also great to see the little chap dressed in ordinary clothes any 7 yr old would wear