Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee

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Anonymous wrote:This is a much better photo of Meghan's dress. I love it, especially the oversized collar, 3/4 sleeves, and gloves. The ivory is stunning.

It's a great dress, but it doesn't work on someone with such a boxy shape.

I agree its not the right dress for her, or its not tailored properly, or both.

Press is calling it "lilac"

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Anonymous wrote:Neither has a waist. Kate is stick thin and uncomfortable to look at while Megan has no curve. I wonder how the Queen was able to keep her figure after having 4 children. She never seemed very sporty and wasn’t a smoker.

all she does is ride horses - and that's not sporty?

I don’t think riding horses can be attributed to keeping a slender figure. Maybe she did a lot hiking. She was outdoorsy.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a much better photo of Meghan's dress. I love it, especially the oversized collar, 3/4 sleeves, and gloves. The ivory is stunning.

It still doesn't fit her. She needs something that cinches her giant waist and this is not doing the job. She also needs better foundational garments.

Just stop it.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither has a waist. Kate is stick thin and uncomfortable to look at while Megan has no curve. I wonder how the Queen was able to keep her figure after having 4 children. She never seemed very sporty and wasn’t a smoker.

all she does is ride horses - and that's not sporty?

I don’t think riding horses can be attributed to keeping a slender figure. Maybe she did a lot hiking. She was outdoorsy.

And she is reported to have always been super careful about her diet.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a much better photo of Meghan's dress. I love it, especially the oversized collar, 3/4 sleeves, and gloves. The ivory is stunning.

It's a great dress, but it doesn't work on someone with such a boxy shape.

I agree its not the right dress for her, or its not tailored properly, or both.

Press is calling it "lilac"

It's probably one of those dresses that looks different in person and in different lighting.

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How are her clothes so unflattering?

Why is there a nipple showing through that lump of a jacket?

That jacket is hideous. The belt cheapens it and it has a flap on the back that makes it look like a rain trenchcoat. Kate meanwhile is impeccable even in that yellow frock earlier, which I didn't love but the waist detail was pretty. And why was Meghan shushing the little ones yesterday? do they even know who she is? She's the random aunt that shows up at a family even that no one ever sees. What Harry must be thinking to now be demoted to a B-list royal. Couldn't even stand on the balcony yesterday.

I suspect she's wearing a kevlar vest, given Harry's concern about security. It reminds me of the odd fit we saw with Kamala Harris at the inauguration.

Well, she is known for wearing terrible undergar and poorly tailored clothes.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither has a waist. Kate is stick thin and uncomfortable to look at while Megan has no curve. I wonder how the Queen was able to keep her figure after having 4 children. She never seemed very sporty and wasn’t a smoker.

all she does is ride horses - and that's not sporty?

I don’t think riding horses can be attributed to keeping a slender figure. Maybe she did a lot hiking. She was outdoorsy.

I bet with the very formal, structured lifestyle, including mealtimes, that there was very little snacking. It's not like she's ever meandering past the kitchen and mindlessly grabbing something off a leftover plate like some of us!

If The Crown is to be believed, they all enjoyed their cocktails, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

India and Africa, like everything else valuable that they own.

Dearie, the most valuable thing the royal family owns is real estate in both India and Africa and throughout the world. That "gold" carriage is nothing compared to the real estate cash flow.

WTF? Are you 822 years old?

Any land the royal family owns in India and Africa is land they STOLE. They are disgusting racist a-holes.

And everyone in America—including you—lives on stolen land.

I guess all of us are disgusting racist a-holes?

+1 it is incredible how people forget our own sordid history.

They also completely fail to recognise their own hypocrisy. Anyone who owns a mobile phone should know they are ostensibly supporting modern slavery as rechargeable lithium batteries contain cobalt and 60% comes from the DRC where people, including an estimated 35,000 CHILDREN, work in appalling conditions akin to slavery. So it’s a bit rich to criticise some stupid carriage made donkey’s years ago but not feel a twinge of guilt when you hear the ping of an incoming text.

I don't envy the British. Having to defend your current Queen being a literal colonizer and her Uncle, the earl of Mountbatten, being responsible for the partition of India which resulted in devastating consequences, and the family sitting on a billion-dollars while their people starve and UNICEF feeds its children.

Hell, up until her last son was born 'ethnic minorities' were banned from being hired by Buckingham Palace.

It must be exhausting defending all this.

Your argument would carry more weight if you got your facts right. Mountbatten was not the Queen’s uncle. Try harder.

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Anonymous wrote:Neither has a waist. Kate is stick thin and uncomfortable to look at while Megan has no curve. I wonder how the Queen was able to keep her figure after having 4 children. She never seemed very sporty and wasn’t a smoker.

all she does is ride horses - and that's not sporty?

I don’t think riding horses can be attributed to keeping a slender figure. Maybe she did a lot hiking. She was outdoorsy.

I bet with the very formal, structured lifestyle, including mealtimes, that there was very little snacking. It's not like she's ever meandering past the kitchen and mindlessly grabbing something off a leftover plate like some of us!

If The Crown is to be believed, they all enjoyed their cocktails, though.

Princess Anne is the one with the enviable figure. She's always been tall and lean, but with some curves. She looked amazing for 72 years old on horseback yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a much better photo of Meghan's dress. I love it, especially the oversized collar, 3/4 sleeves, and gloves. The ivory is stunning.

It's a great dress, but it doesn't work on someone with such a boxy shape.

I agree its not the right dress for her, or its not tailored properly, or both.

Press is calling it "lilac"

It's probably one of those dresses that looks different in person and in different lighting.

I mean she did have a great figure when she was on Suits, but definitely her waist is a little boxy after kids, but so aren't we all. Not everyone can be Kate Middleton, who is looking a little too thin these days.

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All the ladies carried gloves I think. Does anyone know why? I don’t think I saw them on at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel like the Queen has been holding on to meet Harry’s new baby and then… It’s the end?

More likely holding on for this platinum jubilee.

I wonder if she abdicates after this.

Have you ever listened to her? She's never abdicating and there's no reason to spend $1 billion on a Jubilee and then turn around and do the same billion for a coronation within 6 months. Especially when the Brits can't even afford to heat/cool their homes.

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I doubt Charles will do a big coronation.

I bet once she’s dead there will be a lot less grandeur. This was the last big hurrah.

Big or small its still expensive - with multiple celebrations across the (remaining) realms. The little book the palace put out just for the Jubilee cost $12 million by itself.

Ok. It can be much smaller and not cost $1B.

+1. And while this woman makes a point, I think there's this sentiment that if you get rid of the BRF then all these issues dissolve and miraculously the British class system simply melts away. It's a convenient scapegoat.

I mean if you're no longer paying a single family $100 million a year for random appearances - then yeah a lot of issues dissolve. Its always funny to me that the Prime Minister lives in a tiny 2-bedroom flat (and the Treasury Secretary gets an astonishing 4-bedrooms!) while the Queen has a 100-bedroom palace sitting empty. The two were fighting over those tiny spaces and the incoming Foreign? Secretary had a dispute with the fired one over a country estate that they could use. Issues like that would dissipate. And if the inheritance of these 30,000 acre estates for aristos was legally forced to be divided between the 3-5 kids they have instead of the first-born, those estates would be open to the public within 2 generations.

If you’re going to mention the Prime Minister, you should also mention Chequers — the large-by-most-standards country estate (well over 1000 acres) that comes with the job.

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Anonymous wrote:What is it with these dress coats? Do you have one in your wardobe? What do you do when it gets hot? Do they wear anything underneath?

I saw that Jacinda Ardern wore a coat over a dress to the White House this week when it was about 93 degrees. It looked like she was expecting it to rain any moment.

In the distant past, I’ve had two variations: a shift dress made with a matching coat/long jacket and a coat dress that was designed to be worn by itself. In both cases, I wore the undergarments that I would have worn with any other dress, although I could wear a shell with the coat dress for colder weather. Like women’s suits, coat dresses come in different fabrics. When it gets hot, you wear a coat dress in a lighter weight fabric.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't get over how many people have lived and often died without knowing any sovereign other than the queen, particularly those in Commonwealth countries, where QEII is on the currency. My parents were a bit older and remembered a king, my grandparents remembered 3 kings and 1 queen, but for me QEII has been the only one.

Yeah, it is wild. Anyone under 70 has only known QE II, and anyone under 75 or so might only remember QEII. It struck me recently that since the Queen Mum and Queen Mary both lived into the 2nd half of the 20th century, QE II AND Prince Charles were both directly and deeply influenced by grandmothers born in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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Anonymous wrote:Solid gold coach? I wonder where the raw material was looted from.

India and Africa, like everything else valuable that they own.

Dearie, the most valuable thing the royal family owns is real estate in both India and Africa and throughout the world. That "gold" carriage is nothing compared to the real estate cash flow.

WTF? Are you 822 years old?

Any land the royal family owns in India and Africa is land they STOLE. They are disgusting racist a-holes.

And everyone in America—including you—lives on stolen land.

I guess all of us are disgusting racist a-holes?

+1 it is incredible how people forget our own sordid history.

They also completely fail to recognise their own hypocrisy. Anyone who owns a mobile phone should know they are ostensibly supporting modern slavery as rechargeable lithium batteries contain cobalt and 60% comes from the DRC where people, including an estimated 35,000 CHILDREN, work in appalling conditions akin to slavery. So it’s a bit rich to criticise some stupid carriage made donkey’s years ago but not feel a twinge of guilt when you hear the ping of an incoming text.

+1. The same re: electric/hybrid cars that rely on the same technology.