Royal Style: Welcome to the Court of the Dragon Queen!

[Maireas]

Welcome one, welcome all!
A new thread for all fans of royal style and beauty. May the wit and entertainment continue!

@bluegreygreen she looks gorgeous and very appropriate in that dress! What happened this week?

Royal fans, Princess Birgitta of Sweden is dead. Woman of furs, leather tan and a real IDGAF attitude. https://images.aftonbladet-cdn.se/v2/images/2db5ea56-0002-43a0-a10a-87c5b9410984?fit=crop&format=auto&h=799&q=50&w=1200&s=5e144f503b32cfdfd210ab1c77e5c55b67a81c1c

I remember Birgitta! She wore fur and a jumpsuit to either Madeleine or CP's wedding!

Yes, a great personality! I’ve been looking for a good collection of photos but not found anything amazing yet

She looks like she would've been great fun after a few gins https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a63093931/princess-birgitta-sweden-death-obituary/

She reminds me of that posh royal commentator, Ingrid Seward.

The description of her as being "forthright" is hilarious. One can just imagine and it looks like she was happy in Mallorca.

But an object lesson in the importance of sun protection for the fair skinned.

Swedish papers are saying she fell, broke her arm and died in hospital.
That was a good retrospective there @KillingMeDeftIy, nice find :)

She appeared to have lived her best life. Beautiful woman

Princess Birgitta always looked like she would be great fun at a party. Her childhood must have been sad when her father, the Crown Prince, died in an air crash just a few days after her 10th birthday and made her brother Crown Prince at the age of 9 months.

She really wore the big tiaras well.

Rest in Peace, Birgitta.

I like the King's well chosen words!

More on Mary's Rose Diamond Bandeau

I don’t think this is Camilla’s most flattering outfit for a joint British- French literary event.
Meanwhile, Albert, Charlene and twins attended the inauguration of a £2b eco district on land reclaimed from the sea.
Re Kate’s outfit(s) for the state visit, the Mail reports that she changed from boots to shoes and from one berry coat dress to another.

Goodness, the Grimaldis are going down the mini me route.
That's not a great suit on Cams. Grey is a bit dull anyway. I like Brigitte's coat.

She reminded me of Madge, the sun-worshipping granny who drove around the resort in her electric scooter, cigarette permanently in mouth (brilliantly played by Sheila Reid in the tv series Benidorm if that reference means nothing to you!). But I love that she was very much her own person, living the life that she chose. Apparently when she was younger the Shah of Iran had considered her a potential bride!

I feel for Carl Gustav and his sisters, it must be hard to lose the first of group of siblings.

I read that Kate wore a coat dress under her coat but surely not?

According to the Mail eagle eyed royal
watchers spotted she had changed from boots to shoes, and then in the comments sone readers were saying the second berry coat dress was a bit more flared at the back.

With boots was by Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.
I can’t work out if she’s just discarded the slim fitting coat bit when she changed to shoes or if it’s a different outfit but it does look more flared.
And I’ve forgotten how to do links…

Kate was presumably wearing this dress (worn previously for a visit to St David’s church in Wales, with the same hat) under her McQueen coat, and so took the coat off and changed shoes once she got inside Buckingham Palace.

I don’t know whether the dress looks too
lomg to be worn under the coat without being noticed.
The Mail readers reckon the coat dress is this one from her 2022 carol concert, which was believed to be by Eponine.
Dunno, I’m confused!

The carol concert pic…

Yes, the two photos we have posted are one and the same Eponine dress - she wore it to St David’s and for her carol concert, and now a third time to welcome the Qataris.

Looking at it, it is definitely fuller-skirted than the coat and looks longer too, so she may well have changed from coat to dress and boots to pumps as soon as she got to Buckingham Palaces. Because the outfits were the same shade, it has largely passed unnoticed!

She’s making what she thinks is a really cool point of not dressing modestly to a state banquet with Qatar.

I really hope not

That really does not seem to be the sort of thing she would do. I'd imagine there's another explanation.

Looking at it, it is definitely fuller-skirted than the coat and looks longer too, so she may well have changed from coat to dress and boots to pumps as soon as she got to Buckingham Palaces.

Quoting my own post because, living up to her name, royalfashionpolice on instagram has found a photo that shows the curved hem of the Eponine dress underneath the McQueen coat when Kate ascended the steps to the dais. So she took the coat off, and changed shoes.