Royal Style: Spring Forward! Bling Forward, too..

[Maireas]

Welcome to style mavens old and new to continue our chats.
Hopefully more bling if there's another banquet on the horizon?

I love that outfit of Kate’s. So elegant.

Isla Phillips is very pretty.

She is. As is Zara.

I had to Google Mark Phillips to see if they resemble him! His daughter Stephanie also looks like Zara her half sister.
They seem to do blended families well in that quarter.

I like the hat! And the heels with that outfit. It’s nice to see all the children and teenagers too. They all look relaxed and smart, not an easy age to dress for the public eye

It must be quite something for Georgina, she's had a private upbringing and now all of a sudden age 13 she's walking along with the Prince and Princess of Wales and all eyes upon her but she seems relaxed and confident.

Indeed. It will be nice to see another royal but less grand wedding and maybe a few fresh outfits 🙂

It's going to be a private wedding, but I hope they release a picture.

And trendy! Those royals need an injection of trendiness.

There are a lot of teenage girl cousins 🙂

I wasn't very keen on Kate's outfit, I thought it washed her out a bit. Loved Anne's turquoise though!

I really liked it - a lovely elegant vanilla/cream shade. Kate also wears a hat really well!

William - 1 girl, 2 boys
Harry - 1 girl, 1 boy
Zara - 2 girls,1 boy
Peter - 2 girls (+stepdaughter)
Beatrice - 2 girls (?)
Eugenie - 2 boys )?)

Too early for Edward’s children to have children yet.

I was thinking Princess Anne's 4 granddaughters and Princess Charlotte plus Harriet's daughter...George is a bit outnumbered.

Yes he falls into a bit of a gap in the current RF - there are several boys under 7 but the only other teenager is James Wessex who at 18 is a bit too old.

James and Louise were the youngest of the late queens grandchildren by quite a bit. I think there's about 30 years between James and Peter Phillips! Come to think of it, Peter is quite a bit older than all his cousins, except maybe William.

There was quite a big gap between Charles/Anne and Andrew/Edward I think which has helped spread out the GC and GGC of QE. Then I think Edward was older than Andrew when he married.

My inlaws have cousins and second cousins who have similar mixed ages.
I got confused when doing family tree stuff because of people being the wrong age...my great uncle at advanced age had married a cocktail waitress who was a lot younger. So the age range was similar to Savannah Phillips and Viscount Severn.

My dad is one of 6 spaced over 15 years between some young marriages/first babies and later second families there are a few week shy of 50 years between my eldest cousin and the youngest one. One of my Aunts has a grand child older than her youngest brother's youngest child!

Thats a bit like me! My brothers grandchildren are older than my children, so my mum has great grand children older than her actual grandchildren.

I missed a great out - she has a great grand child older than her niece. My DH can't get his head around my family tree at all!

My DH's family is like that, there are some "Auntys" who are actually his cousins but their children are the same age as us, DFIL's oldest sister had her children very young and some of them proceeded to have children very young whereas DFIL/DMIL were older when they had theirs.

My parents siblings were all close in age, all married and started having children in early / mid 20s and only married once so my 14 cousins and I are all within 10 years of one another. But I have two cousins who are brothers one has a 16 year old grandson and the other has a 16 year old son.

Same as my family with my grandma. Her youngest grandchild is younger than a fair few great grandchildren. 20+ years between my parent and his eldest sibling. I’m closer to my cousins dcs, who are my age, than to my actual cousins, who are more like aunties and uncles. Dh can’t understand and confused him terribly at the start!

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2026/04/queen-letizia-attends-10th-anniversary.html
Leti looks Spring fresh in a pale trouser suit and patterned blouse.

This trouser suit is a loose fit, but doesn't swamp her. I like the cut of the jacket, and the trousers aren't too baggy. Nice blouse.