Royal Style: High Summer, The Chic Continues

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Afternoon Style Mavens!
The threads continue - join us?

You need to read the whole thread to understand. Plus this is S&B, not criticism of the Wales' parenting.

Exactly. One more time.... George is following the dress code 😁

What's informal about painted nails? Or formal about unpainted nails?

Quite.

https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/844140/crown-princess-victoria-princess-estelle-birthday-celebrations/
Here's CPV - birthday portrait. I don't normally like big earrings like this, but they look good.

I like her green dress, although perhaps not with the additional pink frill at the bottom. Estelle looks nice in blue.

I love that dress! Not a fan of the earrings with it though.

Not an aesthetic I can parse, I just don't know or understand the cultural tradition it comes from. I'm guessing that Mum’s dress is related in some way to Swedish national dress and although Dad just looks a bit schoolteacher to me (functional pockets on the jacket!), I suspect my Swedish counterpart would be even more perplexed by one of those photos of British royals with dad in kilt, sporran etc.

@Cassiope it's interesting that you get that vibe from Victoria's dress, I hadn't noticed that. I wonder if there is a nod to national dress? Daniel has definitely gone down the conservative route. I like Silvia's outfit.

I guess it could be very loosely inspired by. Both Victoria and Sofia like this sort of floral, rather bohemian style. Madeleine goes more toward the glam.

My guess is based on vague (very vague) recollections of a frieze with flags and pictures of male and female national costumes and could be completely wrong...

Perhaps it's the cut of the dress? It looks a bit folksy. They sometimes do all appear in national dress, don't they? I think we've seen those images on here.

It is reminiscent so it's a good shout.

Not keen on CPV's dress or her earrings, which would have been gorgeous if they were much smaller.
Love her happy smiley face though.

For a family with no royal or aristocratic heritage (before Jean Bernadotte was declared heir to the Swedish throne in very murky circumstances in 1810) the Bernadottes managed to snap up some fantastic jewels.

I remember Kate saying once that the clothes that the children wear to formal engagements are completely different to what their wear "off duty"

That's fascinating, @Lunde . Was this through his connections to Napoleon? Or was he just a clever operator to get adopted by an elderly king?

Having Desirée Clary (Napoleon’s fiancé before he met Josephine), and Empress Josephine’s granddaughter Josephine Leuchtenberg marry into the Bernadotte line definitely helped! Although Desirée’s ruby tiara ended up with Queen Mary in Denmark…

Yes, we've seen that on birthday pictures, haven't we? Relaxing in Norfolk, usually.

How did it end up there? Was Mary of Denmark like Mary of Teck?

It came with Queen Ingrid - Daisy's mum - who was a Swedish Princess by birth.

I think? Although I could be wrong...vaguely remember another possible route!

Oh right, the current Mary of Denmark. Right. Sorry, I thought we were still talking about days of yore!

It was gained by the Swedish royal family family when Desiree Clary brought it with her as the wife of Marshal Bernadotte - she had worn the jewels at the coronation of Napoleon and Josephine! It was handed down from Swedish Queen to Swedish Queen until one of them gave it as a wedding gift to her daughter Lovisa, who married the King of Denmark. Rubies and diamonds being a well-suited gift for a new Queen of Denmark. It’s stayed with the Danish Royal family ever since, and was the main tiara worn as Crown Princess by now Queen Mary of Denmark.

https://royalwatcherblog.com/2020/11/07/the-danish-ruby-parure/

No I was wrong, they came over much earlier than that!