Royals at Remembrance events 2024

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Catherine and William at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. Anne is also in attendance.

It's condescending. Making condescending comments about a woman who underwent chemo in particular comments related to her hair is spiteful. If you don't find this type of behaviour spiteful and unkind it says a lot about you; perhaps making derogatory comments about people including sick people or people who have experienced recent trauma is your style and you are unable to see anything wrong with it. Other posters can still call you out and that's what happened here. Or are you a 'eat and have cake' kind of person? Be derogatory and also not wanting to be described as nasty? if you are, here have this and enjoy.

Again so if someone is ill and not living their best life it's another level but if someone isn't living their best life

How about people just stop being nasty regardless of whether someone is ill or not? Thats the point I'm making. It should never okay.

Goodness that's all still a massive overreaction. Her being ill has nothing to do with anything. It's not personal, I happen to think long hair on any adult over about 25-30 starts to look a bit silly.

That really isn't a comment in any way significant enough to warrant you taking such offence.

I don't tend to argue with strangers or bots on the internet. Take it or leave it, making a derogatory comment about someone's hair who's just undergone chemo is a low. You dod you. That's all.

The reason one couple are treated differently from the other is because they operate differently.

H&M are the ones who set the pack on Catherine in the first place, the ones who tried to ruin her reputation and turned it into a free for all by Meghan fans. Without fail, those who make the worst comments about Catherine are always massive Meghan fans, who feel emboldened to say what they do about her because of what Megan and Harry have said about her They show no compassion towards her despite what she is suffering through. William and Catherine have never said a negative word about anyone, ever.

It is wildly different commenting on the appearance of M vs C for many reasons, not least of all Catherines ill health. However, Meghan on the other hand wants celebrity, she courts celebrity, she needs it, she wants that fame, comments about appearance are par for the course when you want to be a celebrity influencer, that comes with the territory she is claiming a piece of.

Of course people are going to comment on her appearance when she bounces onto a red carpet, playing to the cameras and acting all coquettish and fame desperate, promoting some clothes from a friends designer label or a friends make up line, and on top of that that everytime she stays out of the public eye for a while, she returns with obvious cosmetic facial tweaks that can't be distracted from by changing her hairstyle. Yeah, people are going to comment.

Back to Catherine and when is too old for long hair .........

I hope I will be rocking whatever hairstyle I want, long or short, when I hit my 60's and 70's.

Nothing wrong with Helen Mirren in this photo.

@DappledThings

People aren't taking offence. They are possibly thinking what kind of person is this and it's not a positive outcome. It's really that simple and the more you try to knock them back the worse it looks. I understand you don't give a shit about what strangers on MN think about you but we can see you for what you are.

The comment about the hair was in my opinion a throwaway comment which wasn't meant to offend. Posters on here are taking it so personally as if their BFF has been insulted. Talk about OTT.

"How about people just stop being nasty regardless of whether someone is ill or not? Thats the point I'm making. It should never okay."

Maybe Harry and Meghan should have heeded your advice a few years ago.

Look - a woman has had cancer. She has had severe treatment for it. It's a bitchy nasty thing to say. It's really that simple.

Further " a throwaway comment" - what is often the end result of cancer treatments? Baldness. It's not throwaway . Throwaway is saying you don't like someone's shoes.

@Itoldyousoo I think everyone knows what your feelings on this are.

It was just a throw away comment it was just a joke, no need to be so emotional, your reaction is so exaggerated.

The online bullies are out in force. Can you imagine being so shallow that you comment on the Princess of Walese's hair after chemo therapy rather than how amazing it is that she can actually be there in person and have empathy with what she must have been through and how hard it must have been and probably still is. Have a little humanity people. Humanity is not really so much about the other person is really what you stand for. Seems that some people stand for putting others down to make themselves feel something. It's sad.

OK, well everyone's welcome to read far more into a throwaway comment if they want to. I would have thought it would be rather patronising to her to have taken my long-standing thought that her long hair looks a bit silly and changed my mind about it just because she's been ill.

And?

My hair looked lank and straggly by the time it reached my shoulders even in my teens/20s. Rats tails I always described it as. Hence I have had shorter hair in various styles for most of my life. There has been the occasional ill-advised attempt to grow it, and I would also get fed up and chop it off. Even in the run up to my wedding my attempt at growing ultimately got chopped. Eventually I accepted that it was best to work with what I had.

Now at nearly 50 I love an asymmetrical pixie cut. If that ages me, as a PP alluded, so be it. I think I look older with longer hair. I would certainly feel crappier.

People should just do them 🤷‍♀️

Ditto!

I offer no comment on the appearance of the Royal Family members at these events.

What I would like to see is no politicians, other than perhaps the Speaker or longest serving member, at them. At least four of the eight former Prime Ministers still living treated the armed forces with contempt.

Of course they should. I for one don’t think@DappledThings meant to be offensive about Catherine, more that they made a bit of an ill judged sweeping generalisation about not having long hair past a certain (not sure which) age and that it looked silly. Which of course it does on some if it doesn’t suit them, but equally long hair looks fabulous on those it does. Age has nothing to do with it. The other unfortunate thing of course is that cancer treatment often have adverse effects on hair. So it was an insensitive comment but not said with malicious intent.

The comments about Catherine’s make up
resembling drag make up, however….

missed out a word

On the long hair thing, it really has only been in the last century and a bit that older women cut their hair. My gt grandmother (born 1870s) had her hair in a long plait at night until the day she died in the 40s, up during the day of course. My grandmother (her daughter) bobbed her hair in the 20s and never went back. It was a young person fashion thing at the start, older women held on to their locks.

Sadly unless you're very lucky/genetically blessed/have been growing it since you were 2, it does get harder to keep it looking nice at length as you get older, but I think Kate's looks lovely.

Can't imagine Jerry Hall with short hair either!

The long hair when young/short hair when older harks back even further.

Unmarried women could keep their hair uncovered, once married women were meant to keep their hair covered at all times.

Women's hair and how it should be worn (according to "the norms") really all hark back to that level of control and keeping women in their place.

That's why the flappers in the 20s who cut their hair so short were so groundbreaking.

I think she’s doing a last hurrah with the very long hair - for as long as she can push it.

I’ve always had long hair - but I have a couple of potential shorter styles - shoulder length one plus a sexy curly Bob one which I am keeping on the back burner for my ‘older years’. Mainly because I don’t think I will be bothered enough to manage a longer style when older - thinking late 50/60s

Catherine had a much shorter style for her about 6 years ago and I thought it looked fabulous. So I imagine she’ll unveil a new style at some point in the next few years - a bit shorter but still long enough to to the up dos.

Watching the new Matlock drama with Kathy Bates - she’s pretending to be an old poor Grandma type and wears her hair up in a pinned bun. When she goes home to her real life she literally lets her hair down and looks fabulous as a 70 year old with grey shoulder length hair.

Given what she’s been through her hair is probably making her feel good about herself when she probably feels pretty unwell generally. She looks very tired and drawn.

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I like her hair, it suits her. I do get slight hair envy as long hair looks wrong on me(wrong face shape)