William says Kate always looks stunning.

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I saw this earlier and I might be a big romantic but it really touched me ! 🥹
It was very a very heartfelt and unneeded comment and for me shows that he's still wild about her after all this time they have been together.

Re Wedding Dresses:

1. Eugenie's evening dress was beautiful and should have been her main choice, ditto Meghan's.
2. Kate's was beautiful, but could have taken a longer train. It looked too small in the Abbey esp. on the overhead shots. I also didn't think PM needed to carry that train and it looked weird going in and you could see the petticoat
3. Meghan's veil was exquisite as were the make up, hair and tiara but the dress looked a mess. Ill fitting and looked like it was made from fire retardant furnishing fabric rather than fine fabric. The flower girls all looked messy too. I think Givenchy took the piss to be honest.
4. I thought Beatrice's dress was very sweet and I think she would likely have chosen it, regardless of lockdown. She was very close to HMQ. Hence why she was trusted with overseeing the renovation of the playhouse.
5. I loved ZT's tiara and hair, but not her dress, nor Autumn Kelly's. They were very meh to me.

Sarah Ferguson and Diana Spencer's wedding dresses were very much of the 80's. Sarah's is the nicest of the two. I would agree with a PP that the dress wore Diana.

I liked Beatrice's dress more than Eugenie's personally - but both suited them.

Princess Anne's original wedding dress is a work of art IMO. It's the small details for me that make it.

Catherine's dress was lovely and fitted her to perfection. It really stood out at compared to what was popular in wedding dresses at the time. Lace was only starting to make a comeback. Not keen on her evening dress.

Meghan's was OK. I loved the idea of it, and I can see what the silhouette was trying to achieve, but the execution didn't quite reach it. The fabric was too heavy, and the fit was just off, especially on the torso & neckline. Her evening dress was perfection though, again fit not quite right (maybe she lost more weight than planned?), but the fabric and cut were more forgiving.

What always 'shone out' for me was her caring nature. She looked like she genuinely cared about people, which in my book is worth a lot more than o'levels anyway. It was a big deal to shake hands with people who had AIDs in those days - I'm sure she helped to change attitudes.

My favourite dress was Meghan’s. It’s very similar to mine. So deceptively simple.

Sarah may be plain, but she seems like an absolutely lovely, warm person and she genuinely seems to radiate that.

Neither she nor her brother inherited their parents' good looks.

I have no reason to think she wasn't a perfectly nice person, I was just surprised a pp described her as 'talented' and 'articulate', when I think part of her mass appeal was her banality, her naff tastes, her gullibility about gurus and 'woo', her appalling decisions about relationships etc.

Sarah Chatto may not be a stunner ( although I do think she has a lovely smile) but have you seen her son, Arthur?

I think one of the reasons why Kate is appealing is coz her attractiveness is somewhat relatable. She doesn’t look like the blonde blue stereotype of a princess like Diana was. She’s still tall and slim and pretty but her demeanour and her looks don’t look so glam that she seems unreachable. I’m thinking of someone like an Angelina Jolie type. It’s good that William does find her stunning, as he should as she’s his wife.

Sarah is truly lovely. She has amazing taste in clothes.

Is this the royal family pr trying to persuade us they have a happy marriage?
Its the posh equivalent of facebook posts about how wonderful someone's spouse is.

That’s not true, is it? She was naturally pretty to start with when she was still in her teens, with great bone structure, nice teeth, thick hair, clear skin - and she is tall and slender.

You could not make over any random from Adsa and have the same result, it’s silly to pretend she isn’t attractive and that it’s all down to money.

I agree Kate is pretty. But you can also see the difference money makes.

It costs a LOT of money and takes a LOT of time to be immaculately groomed as much as Kate is.
That's the bottom line, time and money which is not in abundance for a lot of people.

There are many ordinary people out there who could look as stunning as Kate if they had that. And a stylist, hairdresser, skin and make up expert, fitness expert, fashion houses desperate for you to wear their clothes, nutrition expert, they all work to bring together a look. You could have no fashion sense and bad diet and skin...someone will sort you out

I don't think you could pick anyone from Asda and have the same results but if I look at photos of her at 18-21 and then at photos of me and my friends at that age (we are similar in age to her), I think at least half of us would look as good from the neck up. The figure to some extent is just genetics - more hour glass ey or shorter women don't look as good in haut couture even if they are slender.

I think the same music - not everyone will have the same results. I believe that everyone will undoubtedly look polished, etc., with time and money but for me, to look as good, you need the canvas to work on.

As with Kate above and Meghan here, they were both undeniably attractive when they were younger.

With a wee bit of time and assistance and know how, they both have absolutely blossomed into the women they are today.

I also note that everyone, no matter how physically attractive they are in real life, can look absolutely ridiculous in a candid photo rather than a posed one!

People are missing the point when William says his wife always looks stunning. She looks stunning to him because he loves her. I'm sure he would accept the Meghan also looks stunning visually, but not in a million years would he say that about her, because he dislikes her.

This isn't about someone's physical appearance, its about the way a loving husband feels about his wife.

@polkadotdalmation 👏 , exactly why I started the thread!

@polkadotdalmation Yep its to convince the public they have a loving marriage

Well they're doing a bloody good job then, if their popularity rating is anything to go by. 😀

I work in this field and tbh, both Kate and Meghan's past photos show them both to be facially average, pretty enough like so many others, not great beauties. Surgery has been successful for both of them.

People who do not understand the achievements of the aesthetics industries in the last ten years can argue all day long that it isn't so but it reveals naivety and a bias towards preferring one over the other.

I's love to see a progression towards plastic surgeons being praised and acknowledged for the miracles they are able to pull off on a daily basis rather than vilified for the tiny minority of cases where surgery was ill advised or goes wrong.

I think Kate has had much less work done - the things that have altered her appearance most are losing the puppy fat in her cheeks as she's aged, and her veneers. Otherwise, she looks much the same.

Meghan looks like a completely different person

@Sudeko Nothing wrong with plastic surgery unless it's taken to extremes. Totally with you there. There's a perception women are not beautiful unless it's completely genuine and unenhanced, and surgery and treatments are somehow cheating. Most women are average and so some treatments can make them more attractive.

My real beef is with the objectification of women and the patriarchal society that values women for their looks and not their brains, but that's a whole other topic.

During lockdown, guess which type of client was battering down the hatches and demanding that the surgeries be open for their seriously non-urgent tweaks? Ones who were actually famous for speaking out against the objectification of women and the patriarchal society. Some even tried to set up clinician rooms inside their mansions and were willing to pay for expensive equipment in the hope that it could happen at home. Believe it or not, I'm not talking about the Love Islander or wag clients but the intellectual heavyweights.