Favourite Royal outfits

[PrettyFlyforaMaiTai]

Would anyone like to join me in my attempt to unite the board and discuss our favourite royal outfits (before it enviably turns into another bun fight 🤣)

I’ll start with my favourite Catherine outfits first…

No shit Sherlock 😂

Start with this :
Home Page - Royal Foundation. They donate millions to charities through their foundation.

She was behind Heads Together with off shoots to :

Shout 85258: Launched in 2018, this free, confidential 24/7 text messaging service has facilitated over 1.5 million conversations with 540,000 texters.

Mentally Healthy Schools: Introduced by the Princess of Wales, this initiative provides UK primary schools with free access to over 600 mental health resources, including lesson plans and assembly guides.

Mental Health at Work: Launched in 2018, this platform offers resources to improve workplace mental health. Within its first six months, it served 100,000 site visitors.

Baby Banks : In 2020, she organized a donation drive that resulted in over 10,000 new items being distributed to more than 40 baby banks nationwide.

And her Early Years work Homepage - CFEC which has resulted in for example Business Taskforce for Early Childhood: Established in 2023, this initiative brought together major UK companies like IKEA, LEGO, NatWest, and Iceland to invest in early childhood development. Their contributions include educational resources, funding for early years teachers, and support for baby banks.

Princess of Wales has been instrumental in introducing the Alarm Distress Baby Scale (ADBB) to the UK—a tool designed to assess infant wellbeing and enhance parent-infant bonding.

What Is the ADBB?
The ADBB is an observational tool that evaluates how babies interact with their environment by monitoring behaviors such as eye contact, facial expressions, vocalizations, and activity levels. It helps health professionals and families better understand infants' emotional needs, supporting early identification of distress and fostering stronger parent-child relationships.

Following her visit, the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, in collaboration with the Institute of Health Visiting and the University of Oxford, initiated a pilot program in the UK. The initial trial took place in South Warwickshire and Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trusts, where health visitors reported that the ADBB facilitated more meaningful conversations with parents about their babies' emotional wellbeing and helped identify families needing additional support.

Expansion and Funding

Due to the positive outcomes of the pilot, the program has been expanded to eight additional areas across the UK, including regions in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This second phase is backed by a £210,000 grant from the Centre for Early Childhood and is scheduled to run until March 2026.

These are some of the things she does, so it's better to inform yourself before you form an uninformed opinion about her. Says more about you than her.

Slightest criticism and they all start frothing they are public servants it goes with the territory.

I would kill to look as Catherine does in those boring clothes!

@JSMilli’m sure we wouldn’t look half as bad if we had all the resources they have at their disposal.

Wow I've never seen that one of Diana in the gold before. Kate's gold Bond dress reminds me of it!

I am sure we have many examples of women who have those resources at their disposal who look bad. Just saying.

You’d think that wouldn’t you? But Meghan has showed time and again that all the money and resources in the world doesn’t guarantee looking good.

Catherine looks good in almost anything because she has good genes, is tall and willowy and has a well proportioned body. Meghan and the others are certainly attractive but find it harder than Catherine to look good in everything and that’s why having a stylist and well tailored clothes is important.

Same old same old bringing Meghan into every comment someone makes it is all getting a bit tedious now.

Well Meghan had her own favourite outfits post by yours truly so I’ve no idea what you’re talking about? She’s part of the whole conversation of royalty and fashion, being royal adjacent.

It sounds like you’re trying to shut down anything that is slightly critical of your idol. She can dress well, but most of the time, particularly post Megxit, she has dressed poorly. Just like others saying Catherine dresses frumpily. She does at times, but she looks brilliant in most things she wears because she is well proportioned, has a model like body and knows how to tailor clothes to her body type.

Why make a petty comment to say she is my “idol” because I had the audacity to post something pro Meghan. I just don’t like to criticise anyone about their body shape though you don’t seem to have a problem doing that. We can’t all have “model” like bodies can we.

I never said it was a criticism of her body.

You were the one who made the comment that said if you had all the money and resources in the world we would all wouldn’t look half bad. I disagreed with that and mentioned that Meghan often gets it wrong. Not even all the money and the resources in the world came make you look good if you don’t dress to your body type (ie Meghan and the others - you also seem to forget i mention ‘others’ in your next post). It is well known that Meghan has a short torso, broad shoulder and long legs. Nothing wrong with this, just that it’s harder for her dress than someone with a long torso and willowy frame like Catherine has.

You criticised me for bringing Meghan into every comment, despite this being a topic in which is already included. You seem overly defensive over a neutral comment and you also seem to want police the thread (saying people can’t talk about Meghan?). That’s indicative that you are pro Meghan and is going into SS territory if I’m being completely honest.

Yes, you’re right. We can’t all look like models like Catherine. It goes to show that all the money and resources in the world can’t get you a body like hers.

Revert to type SS getting so tedious. What shall I call your comments then Wales Squad territory if I’m being completely honest.

Its funny how the Sussex squad only hear the critique and never the compliments. You must have failed to notice all the times I’ve complimented Meghan on her successful fashion choices and looks (particularly her arms).

But I like to call a spade a spade. If that makes me ‘Wales Squad’ then I will wear that label with honour 🥰 Better than being Sussex Squad who only ever seem to want police threads and shit on the Wales, yet get up in arms whenever people aren’t gushing about Meghan and Harry (or simply refer to them) 🤭

Lots of misunderstandings here!

'Boring' is very subjective.

It's easy for you to look up what Catherine's job entails if you're not clear.

I wouldn't like to see her wearing edgy clothes on official duty - it wouldn't be appropriate, any more than seeing Sir Keir in a multi-coloured suit or very tight trousers etc. Royals, like politicians, are not supposed to hog the limelight. Obviously our celebrity-obsessed society and social media DO make a massive deal about what the women wear - including politicians - which is annoying, but it's not going to stop, is it? Angela Merkel always wore a uniform of bright, longish jacket and black trousers. Hilary Clinton did much the same, and I'm sure the reason was to try and fade into the background from a fashion point of view - neither woman wanted to be judged on her clothing, in the same way that men aren't, and I get that.

You've implied that most of the royal women are plain - right on, sister! By chance now we happen to have a very well-blessed Princess of Wales (in terms of prevailing standards of female beauty) and she looks good in clothes. While I personally don't like everything she wears (I don't like high-necked dresses or pussy bows etc) I don't think she's worn anything inappropriate, and that's all that matters from a professional viewpoint. Anything else is a bonus!

Say what now?

Totally agree . I am old enough to remember when Diana had a totally different hairstyle ( a sort of updo) and it was front page news rather than the rather important event she was attending!
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/royals/princess-diana-hair-drama-furious-queen-hair-stylist-reveals/

Yes - and this thread isn't about people's looks - it's about clothing and fashion choices.

I'm amazed at how blatantly catty some posters are being! They should go and have a saucer of milk. Maiow!

Yes, getting back to the real subject of this thread....

I came across this old photo the other day of Charles & Diana in Edwardian dress. It dates from 1983 and was taken during a visit to Canada.

I’ve never seen that before! I take it that it was for a fancy dress party of some sort?

Diana is stunning in that photo.

I read that the photo was taken when they attended a BBQ at the historic Fort Edmonton Park where they were required to wear period costumes.

I think they both look good dressed in Edwardian style.

I posted this in the Royal thread on the Style board - a ballgown worn by the Queen in Canada in 1957 (emerald velvet maple leaves, York roses made from pearls, crystals and diamonds). A reminder of when she dressed a little less conservatively!

I think Catherine's style is 'appropriate for work'. She has to be careful not to draw attention away from the cause she is supporting on a solo engagement, and also not to upstage any of the more senior royals.

That is LOVELY! You don’t have a picture of her wearing it do you?

I remember being in the Kremlin Museum and seeing some of Catherine the Great’s jewel encrusted dresses and the guide saying “where you see blue is sapphires , green is emeralds, red is rubies and white is diamonds” They were dazzling, literally.

Here you are CurlewKate - she wore it to two different events in Canada.