Royal Style: Embracing Autumn with a Varied Wardrobe - let's be like KC3 and enjoy!

[Maireas]

Welcome to the new thread.
Espadrilles in the cupboard, folks.

Love Leti's dress, very pretty.

Christian's 18th coming up soon. I think it is a tiara event.

Euro Royal Wedding 🚨 (another one)

first off who knew the Portuguese had a royal family? They must have too many legacy titles floating about.

Infanta Maria Francisca Braganza and Duarte de Sousa Arouja Martins.

very simple gown.

How lovely! Maria looks beautiful - that's a lovely dress, very simple and elegant. Great tiara 🤩

A lot of the royal fashion accounts on Insta do throwbacks to ‘on this day this obscurely titled royal from a former world power married , er, that guy’ throwbacks.

I’m always struck by how gowns from 20/30/50 years ago are not that different to the dresses today. Serena Linley married Princess Margaret’s son 30 years ago today. Not dissimilar dress from the bodice up.

That dress is lovely, and exquisitely-made. And it suits and fits her very well.

Portugal abolished the monarchy over 100 years ago so the bride and groom are as royal as the Germans and Austrians calling themselves archduke or count! Agree the dress is v similar to Serena's, which in turn was very like Princess Margaret's.

Lovely dress on Maria.

The House of Braganza provided one queen to Britain: Catherine, who married Charles II.

"Portugal marks first royal wedding in 25 years! Infanta Maria Francisca, 26, and her lawyer beau tie the knot in lavish ceremony at the Palace of Mafra" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12607189/amp/Portugal-marks-royal-wedding-25-years-Infanta-Maria-Francisca-26-lawyer-beau-tie-knot-lavish-ceremony-Palace-Mafra.html

It seems Infanta Maria only aim is to raise the present of the royal Portuguese family from London.

It's a bit baffling to me as to how this family support themselves financially.

I just opened that link @justasking111

".... She collected her tresses back into an updo........."

Had her tresses fallen off ?

😂

Portugal abolished the monarchy over 100 years ago so the bride and groom are as royal as the Germans and Austrians calling themselves archduke or count!

I was reading this article about the lovely tiara the bride wore (loved her dress too!) and was a bit surprised to hear that they are still accorded some status by the Portuguese government, as it refers to them being invited to state events, including when Wax and Max last visited.

https://royalwatcherblog.com/2021/11/22/queen-amelie-diamond-tiara/

It wasn't the Portuguese "heir" to the throne who got into a fight at some other royal-ish wedding and fell into the arms of Queen Anne-Marie of Greece was it??

Good work, @Serenster , that is a beautiful tiara. I didn't realise that they still participated in state events.

How short hair would look on Kate, according to AI. I love the bottom two.

The bottom two are only a bit shorter than a cut she sported a few years ago, which I thought was her best hairstyle. The top two are too boring - newsreader and what the Americans call soccer mom!

Yes, the bottom right is similar to our all time favourite Wimbledon look.

I enjoyed reading about the Queen Amelie tiara. It's beautiful and is similar to my very own tiara, the Fife. Here they are side-by-side for comparison.

I think the bottom right photo mocking up Kate with shorter hair looks great. Perhaps she'll see it and get some inspiration!

Yes, it's like your tiara, @MotherofPearl .
Great diamonds 😍

The Portuguese Infanta has gone full MM for her evening wedding gown.

the groom looks fifteen very youthful!

Nice evening gown! I'd have kept the tiara on, though!

I do like that halterneck dress. Definitely reminiscent of MM and a great modern evening choice.

I do like that dress and I agree, the groom looks very 'youthful'.

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2023/10/the-duchess-of-edinburghs-visit-to.html
The first day of Sophie's visit to Ethiopia. This is part of her work with the visual impairment charity. Nice dress, Me+Em.

I actually really like the second dress, even though it's Erdem!

I'm not keen on those floral dresses of Sophie's but I do admire her work in this area.