Royal Style: Charles and his wee boots, and please - plenty of (Preloved) bling!

[Maireas]

Hello! New thread....thanks for the title suggestions!
Fingers crossed for some good festive style!

(Off to look at Malina 😆)

CPV's one-sleeves dress reminds me of one Diana once wore.

Kate & Wills are off on a trip to Boston in the first days of December, so it will be interesting to see Kate's style for the US of A.

Secretly hoping she wears a Stars and Stripes dress.....only joking!

CPV's dress is a poor fit, and poorly made, look at side seam of the skirt how badly it is ruched. What is her dresser thinking, letting her go out like that?

I've now got visions of Kate turning up looking like this!

I think the ruching is intentional isn’t it? It’s on the bodice as well...but I agree it’s not great. It looks shoddy.

Oh, the brand is By Malina. Victoria’s worn it rather a lot over the years.

How did we miss emerald buttons thingies on KC!! Good spot! Those are cracking.

That first Erdem dress is quite nice. Can't remember that one.

The middle one she ballsed up with the shoes and the last one the buttons matched her ring. Iirc imho.

Mathilde smashing it here.
V similar to Kate's without the shoulder bling.

Queen Mathilde of Belgium stuns in a caped gown for a state banquet
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I'll grant you that those are the least worst Erdems @Serenster

The best thing about that first one (floral at Wimbledon I think) is her hair - I wish she'd go back to that length and colour.

I prefer Mathilde's, lovely color too and much better without the kiddy glitter.

Back to Sophie. The Queen was so intentional with her jewellery, always wearing something relevant to an occasion or a person. I'm sure she left Sophie some lovely pieces which we will see gradually.

Wow, Mathilde looks magnificent! She is really on good form at the moment. I love the diamanté trim on the dress.

@StartupRepair that’s my feeling too.

Mathilde looks amazing.

I'm joining in the Mathilde love! It is slightly reminiscent of Mary Poppins, but that's no bad thing in my book.
Lovely colour and style.

I can’t help feeling sorry for Fergie. She seems to have been left in a very precarious situation after her divorce.

Charles is running out of royals to get on with the job. Harry and family, Andrew and family, non working, Anne alone. So it's Charles Camilla, William Catherine, Edward and Sophie.

IMO he's running on a skeleton staff, he and especially Camilla are pensioners, health issues.

The firm needs to think hard about this

I think the Duke of Gloucester still works representing the monarch too. He came to the DDs' school not so long ago.

I think the Duke of Kent still does some public engagements as well.

On the topic of working royals, I went down a rabbit hole lately, and found myself on the Wikipedia pages of the Kents and the Gloucesters. There was a serious amount of engagements listed for them, I never realised they were so active. If the monarchy is slimmed down, I think the remaining few are going to be overworked!

royalcentral.co.uk/uk/all-the-tiaras-worn-by-the-royal-family-on-a-historic-state-visit-183753/
Royal Central's explanations of the jewellery.
Quite a few pieces of QE2's collection worn.

I think if they are going to slim down it means the core RF working only and how they work with charities will have to change.

I'd like to see them rotate charities, so instead of taking on a role for life they engage with most charities for a set period ie a big campaign, major anniversary and then step away and work with another charity.

I believe William is already talking about this modus operandi for the future.

The monarchy is slimming itself down due to age and natural passage of time. It must be quite a concern for William and Catherine as they face a future with pretty much the whole show in their shoulders.

I am a royalist, I like having a monarchy. God forbid we have a succession of ex prime ministers rocking up to Buck Pal to host State dinners and rootle through the Tiara collection (not for the men obv! But wives..) while they are there.

Heaven forbid some terrible disaster take out the Cambridges. Even if H&M would want to step up I doubt many people would be happy about that. Then we are on to the York's. Surely Zara and Peter being untitled citizens couldn't do it even if they would want to which I doubt.
Lady Louise or brother James are probably the only realistic back ups.

It makes me feel quite nervous sometimes. I think HMQ was right. They shouldn't all fly together.