Royal Style and Beauty: Carpe Diadem! No tears or tiers, just tiaras please

[Maireas]

Afternoon, a new thread and thanks to @ArcaneWireless for the great title! On we go!

Ooops!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈

Tbf, I wasn’t looking at their banners 🙈🙈🙈

Yep, and it applies to the protesters too!

Back to fashion now and Sophie's dress is Suzannah London and cost over £1k. It's nice but again, you could tell me it was LK Bennett and I'd believe you!

Absolutely it does apply to protesters (free speech) - megaphones though? Rude.

And aye. Sophie’s dress was lovely - I’m not sure it was 1k lovely though. 😳. I too would have quite happily believed it was posh high street.

Still she looked radiant on an important day. It must be reassuring to feel lovely and look lovely when you have heaps of eyes on you. I think it would give me confidence anyway.

Of course.

Liked Sophie's dress, not so keen on this look for a night out with friends.
Camilla's dress was nice too, I thought. Have cut her head off slightly, so to speak, to show her shoes.

I think Sophie has lost some weight as her face looks less soft? Love that dress on her!

Yes, Camilla's dress and shoes are nice, I like the two tone. Sophie's trousers look interesting, I can't quite work out the shoes, they don't seem to go?

Sophie has worn those shoes before ( or similar ) I think on official engagements. Put a little extra toe box line on them, take the wedge away and they're not unlike the Queen Mother's Nan shoes.
Her hair in both the photo of the lovely flowery pink dress and out with her pals didn't have that "blow dried by a professional" look.

I think the dress yesterday did look like a designer dress. Something in the way it draped etc so not surprised at the price.

Her night out outfit was awful - but could be the angle.

And I agree re weight loss - I am a LOT bigger than Sophie but always felt a kinship with her as she seems to have a similar tummy issue to me (but in a much smaller, less obnoxious way) and that seems to be less of an thing currently. I hope it's good weight loss and not for unhappy reasons like illness. She's certainly very fit and active.

Kate at the polo today. I like her accessories more than I like her dress.

I quite like Kate's blue and white dress. It reminds me a little of Wedgwood Jasperware. Good accessories too, and refreshing to see a shoe departure. Thank heavens she didn't opt for the WS.

I like Kate's blue dress too.
Her shoes are lovely.
I'm sure she has those special plastic thingys to stop her heels sinking into the grass.

I think Kate looks gorgeous there.

I like the dress, very fresh and summery.

@MotherofPearl my first thought on Kate’s dress was Wedgwood too! I love it, and bless her for going with nude shoes instead of the dreaded white stilettos.

Plus, they're slingbacks, with an interesting heel.

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2023/07/spanish-royals-attended-meeting-with.html
Well, it seems to be espadrille time for the Bourbon family! Lovely to see Leonor and Sofia look so summery. I like Leti's dress, but it does look like it needs an iron (I know it's crinkle!).

Gosh, I hope Leonor didn’t need to sit down in that dress!

Sophie has gone for a similar Wedgwoody dress today.
I'm not wild about either. They remind me too much of the voluminous nighties worn by old ladies.

What voluminous nighties?

I think the print is a bit large on Sophie's dress, she does like a large flower print, though!

I heard that being said by Esme from Sewing 🐝 ☺️

Esme is my spirit animal

@locketrocket - did she? I've only ever seen her on Sewing Bee, I didn't know she commented on shoes. I think she's great on that.