Royal Style and Beauty: Open the vaults, alert the nation, get out bling for the Coronation!

[Maireas]

Well, we're in the run up to C day, now. Thanks to @chesterelly for the thread title suggestion 😊

I genuinely sometimes struggle.

They are so alike!
Is the answer to spot the difference: one likes birthdays more?!
@LadyEloise1 go on, tell me I'm bold!😂

ooohhh bold girl @Eaumyword off with you to the Tower Bold Corner.

New thread title needs to incorporate the word Bold I feel.
To Boldly Go Where No Crown Has Gone Before

@CliffsofMohair got there before me.
The Bold Tower !
I love it. 😂

Love it ☺️☺️☺️!

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/explained/king-charles-coronation-timetable-complete-schedule-timings-events/

I've just checked the coronation schedule. Sheesh it's gonna be a long day. I think I'll be dipping in and out.

How on earth Eugenie will cope. I wonder if her midwife team will advise against it.

The guests have to be there so early too. I'd have declined with my bad back and twitchy bladder. I wonder if some did.

Thank you, @justasking111 .
There are loos available because they do have to start seating people very early.

I guess Eugenie will just be at the ceremony and not on the balcony if it's only 15 royals. I'm trying to count up who they might be but "working royals" plus the Wales kids only brings me to 14. I guess Sir Tim will be the 15th though I don't think he's technically a working royal?

I can think of a few people who are in deep risk of being sent to the Bold Tower😂.
I agree with MotherofPearl about the unnecessary lace over the outfit, it definitely should have been one or the other.
I don’t mind Kate’s floral dress, it’s not very stand out but looks more naturally her style in some ways, it’s pretty.

Not royal style in itself, but I love the Monique Lhullier dress worn at yesterdays garden party by Lionel Richie’s partner

Letizia looking fab in red plus tiara at a dinner for the President of Colombia. The only thing I don't like is the peplum. The Colombian First Lady looks great in the blue cape dress too. https://www.newmyroyals.com/2023/05/king-felipe-and-queen-letizia-held-gala.html

Ooh Leti is wearing my tiara, I think that's the Spanish floral one? I do think she looks great in red, the peplum looks okay in side view, but from the front on a long dress I don't think it works.
That blue colour, is it cobalt? seems very popular at the moment, I look absolutely awful in it unlike the Columbian first lady who looks very majestic!

How kind of you to loan it from your collection @KatharineClimpson

Kate's down the old Dog & Duck today and has got the white stilettos out. "GET OUTTA MAH PAAAAHB!"

I love the tomato red of Kate's coat there (one of the few shades of red I can wear). The glimpse of blue lining makes me think this is her leading us gently into a whole red white & blue Coronation wardrobe. I remember a singer at Last Night of the Proms who, with the tweak of a button, transformed her white dress into a full on Union flag for Rule Britannia. If it's not too bold to say so I can imagine PoW having a similar Ta-Dahhh moment.

@CliffsofMohair I do enjoy sharing some of my little treasures with other discerning individuals, so kind of you to notice..........

I think you might be on to something@chesterelly1 , I have a now burgeoning hope that the tomato red coat is reversible, and can be turned round to reveal a union jack lining and possibly a large portrait of the new King on the back...........

That's some coat you've designed for Kate @KatharineClimpson

Love the coat and the ta-dahhhh lining. 😀

I like the white dress, I think it's one she's worn for Wimbledon previously, but don't like it so much under the coat and I hate the shoes.

Sorry Kate, I think you could do better with the red, white and blue theme. Please see above for wardrobe suggestions from KatherineClimpson

Or perhaps a cloak similar to this one from the Met Gala only in Union Jack colours and with Charles's face?

I actually like that outfit! Even the white shoes… 😂

That's bloody brilliant.
If you saw The Windsors Coronation special, Kate was wearing a dress made up of the Commonwealth flags. I thought it may not be too far from the truth.....

@KatharineClimpson - see if you can borrow Leti's red dress for Saturday.

While I love the vibrant tomato red of Kate's coat, I do think that it's a strange outfit to wear to a Soho pub, especially the white stilettos, she clearly was channelling her inner Pat Butcher!

Do I have to leave the thread now 😬?