Royal Style: with hope, our threads continue

[Maireas]

Evening everyone. I'm starting this new thread at a bit of a sad time, and I know we're all thinking of Kate and her family. Let's hope that as we continue in our lighthearted way, good news arrives for her, and others who are in a similar situation, either themselves or loved ones.🌷

Camilla chanelling her inner Bet Lynch in a leopard print today (I like it actually) 😆

Actually nope I don't like it

I rather like it!

I love leopard but on the fence about the shape of the dress but I do like the colour. (That's if it is green as showing from the photo)

I'm afraid that, along with tiered dresses and asymmetrical hemlines, leopard print is on my list of sartorial personal hates. So it's a hard no from me to Camilla's dress. The brown shoes and bag slightly soften and redeem it.

My dh likes Sophies dress. He calls her Sophia Wessex.
I don't think I like it but it is impressive that she wore it and visited Ukraine.

I like Camilla's dress, but I am partial to a bit of animal print. It was nice and "flowey" on the news.
William was at James' Place, a men's mental health charity, in Newcastle today, so not entirely MIA.

It's a very sludgy pattern and colour, not a great outfit I don't think.

Has Camilla got a new stylist? She’s slaying right now!

Thought Sophie’s ugly dress was hideous.

https://www.queenletiziastyle.com/blog/queen-letizia-wears-patriotic-red-to-commemorate-spanish-delegation-from-the-1992-barcelona-olympics
Leti in a red Carolina Herrera trouser suit. I think we've had a mixed bag of trouser suits on royal ladies, but I think that the cut and colour of this are lovely. It's such a great colour.

I like Letizia's red suit but I'm not keen on the colour or style of her shoes.

Yes, the shoes aren't to my taste, patent leather mauve? I like the new earrings.

I'm not sure if we've already commented on this - apologies if I missed it - but here's Mathilde from a few days ago.

I think that though her dress is a fraction tight, she looks great. I like her hair up in a chic chignon, and I love her gold cuff bracelet. Plus she's in the good shoes again.

Yes, it's just a little tight, but it's nice and I like her hair.

I do wish Mathilde would up her lipstick game. She often looks a bit washed out, and I think a slightly stronger lipstick colour would do a lot for her.

That first photo is giving serious Law & Order: Madrid vibes.

I quite like Cam’s dress but it looks black and green patterned so not sure why she chose brown shoes.
The Swedish royals made a balcony appearance to mark the king’s birthday.

I covet that gold cuff! The shoes are nice but don't really go with the dress imo.

For the toque/torque debate a few pages back, I was at a museum yesterday that labelled them as "torcs” 🤔

Torc where I come from. Never knew them as torque

Silvia. Stop with the hair dye, it's ageing.
Love the vibrant jacket though.

Do you think that's actually her own hair or a wig á la Joan Collins? It seems very thick hair for someone in their mid 70s.

Silvia is 80! But perhaps queens have access to hairdresser secrets that mere mortals do not!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-13368757/ROBERT-HARDMAN-Charles-T-Rex-tie.html

I hope you can open and see the photo of Charles - I adore his dinosaur tie!!! So stylish but with a sense of humour. I thought of you all when I read the piece.

I really like that tie. Nice to see KC and Cams out and about together.

Fred and Mary will visit Sweden tomorrow - their first state visit abroad as King and Queen. I'm really, really excited to see if Mary debuts another new to her tiara. She can't wear the Crown Jewels abroad, so she can't wear the emerald parure again...I do hope she brings something big and blingy out of the vault; I expect she'll want to hold her own against the Swedish women whose tiara game is so strong, so the odds are in our favour.

I think the problem is not so much the hair dye, it’s that the colour is too dark and “solid”. You’d think an actual Queen could afford some decent highlights 😆. Agree that it makes it look like a wig