Wessex to Edinburgh: Dukedoms, designers and definitely bling - royal style and beauty

[Maireas]

Join the gang!
Waves to long term friends, happy to see newbies!

Oh I love the hat and that colour. But the suit bottoms are so dated!
Love her handbag too!

I see Mathilde has gone full on colonial for her Day 2 outfit in Egypt. Not keen on Elisabeth's pink and yellow polo top.

We then have Max and Leti really flying the flag for Colourful Clothes. I think Max's dress is a rewear (maybe Leti's too?), and I always love those boots of Max's.

More Max, courtesy of the Daily Mail...

Ooh I love Max's dress in motion, and the cheeky side split. Top marks Max!

Apart from the racy side split, that dress also seems to have gigantic 1980s shoulder pads!

Love Leti's pink shirt dress!

I love Max in her carnelian red outfit, the soft drape of the blouson bodice and sleeves, with the narrow split skirt, just gorgeous! Shoulder pads were everywhere at Paris Fashion Week recently, we're sure to see more of them.

@Maireas has anyone nabbed this tiara yet, and if not please may I have it? It's Queen Amelie of Portugal's tiara from her wedding in 1886 and it's rather nice!

That is a truly beautiful tiara frugal. Reminds me a bit of my tiara the Fife tiara.

Shoulder pads are back in fashion.

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/mar/09/shoulderpads-paris-fashion-week-comfort-dressing-john-lewis#:~:text=Look%20sharp!-,Shoulder%20pads%20and%20spikes%20are%20back%20as%20Paris%20calls%20time,sleeves%20and%20easy%2Dcare%20layers.

Love, love the black cape and grey dress on Max, and the red outfit is gorgeous.

Don't particularly like Letizia's pink dress.

Holy Batman Moly! Max looks like the most fabulous superhero! ♥️ those boots.
Leti looks great in the pink dress too.

They are, I just bought a gorgeous jacket from Zara and I am trying to figure out how to remove the huge shoulder pads.

That’s a fabulous tiara, frugalkitty! You do have the knack of searching them out 😍
I love max in the red outfit, plenty of va va voom. I’m not keen on her hair today though, it looks like she ran out of time (like me).
eaumyword, your airing cupboard sounds like the best type to have 🙂

Credit to CoutureandRoyals on Twitter for this montage of Kate's St Patrick's Day outfits. I'm guessing that we'll be 'military style' tomorrow with another 'up do' under a neat hat.

I do rather like the 2018 green coat with the black trim but suspect we'll see something that looks remarkably like the last two years.

Loving Max in red, those boots are fabulous.

Wow, @frugalkitty - I'll have to check, but I don't think it's claimed! It's just gorgeous 😍!
Good green coat montage ☘️
Could anyone guess how many green coats Kate owns?.

Is it wrong to pray for a 2015 rewear? Even with a bump suit on.

Adore those boots of Max. They are my favourite

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11867677/Queen-Letizia-Spain-wears-bright-pink-347-maxi-dress.html
Leti in bright pink button down dress. I really like this, quite relaxed. But the shoes?
I think something other than spike heels as per, but what do we think?

@frugalkitty - Queen Amelie of Portugal's tiara ✔️

I like Zara's outfit and Mike's jacket and shoes. His trousers don't gel with the rest of his outfit to me. They're too shiny and jar against his jacket.
Max's grey outfit is gorgeous. 😍

My fav green coat was 2019! I hated last year's one... it was a bit Aer Lingus hostess 👀 I've a feeling we might see something new, given her elevated status to POW.

It'll be a bugger if she wears red...
I prefer the 2017 coat if she's going for a re-wear.
I suspect she'll have a newby for the vast collection.

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Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all our Irish friends!

My favourite green coat is the 2018…a green coat is a green coat but the black trim was lovely on that one. Who knows, maybe she’ll surprise us with a Kelly or lime green or maybe even sage this year!

Thank you @AdaColeman 🇮🇪☘️. and a Happy St.Patrick's Day to you all from a cloudy but dry ( so far ) Dublin.

Looking forward to seeing Kate's sartorial choice today