Why do the English Royals look so old?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the English don't age well, and don't seem to care about their teeth. Old teeth, old face.

Ok but that is not a royal family thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:English people do not age well (I am English).

I agree, and the same goes for the Irish.

I lived in Spain for years and remember traveling to England from time to time and being struck by how not-attractive the English were, LOL, at least relative to the Spanish.

[Anonymous]

The demons cannot hold on to the glamour for long. Besides they are ugly AF to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They look like normal aging humans. Americans are conditioned to the fake plastic non-aging look of most American celebrities.

I'm stunned by how much plastic surgery the women AND men I know in my mc suburb have. It's the norm to at least get botox regularly. Many, many of them go for the full mommy lift.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the English don't age well, and don't seem to care about their teeth. Old teeth, old face.

I think their health system causes a lot of this. I've known several Brits who had braces as kids but still had awful teeth in adulthood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catherine/Kate is also (very) skinny - and that’s one of the fastest ways to age once you’re over 30/35, especially if you don’t mitigate with Botox early. I’ve seen it in a lot of my friends as we hit 35/40/45.

Typically, I know there are several 55 year old, 5’10”, size 2 DCUMers who look 30, so don’t come at me.

I also think how old someone looks at 70/80/90 is very much driven by genetics. Prince Philip looked older than the Queen (even accounting for age differences).

Poor Philip looked like a crypt walker.

He was frickin' 99 years old when he died. Christ, rightly so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catherine/Kate is also (very) skinny - and that’s one of the fastest ways to age once you’re over 30/35, especially if you don’t mitigate with Botox early. I’ve seen it in a lot of my friends as we hit 35/40/45.

Typically, I know there are several 55 year old, 5’10”, size 2 DCUMers who look 30, so don’t come at me.

I also think how old someone looks at 70/80/90 is very much driven by genetics. Prince Philip looked older than the Queen (even accounting for age differences).

Poor Philip looked like a crypt walker.

He was frickin' 99 years old when he died. Christ, rightly so.

Elizabeth was only 3 years younger and she didn’t look nearly that old.

[Anonymous]

I think English people generally age very poorly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catherine/Kate is also (very) skinny - and that’s one of the fastest ways to age once you’re over 30/35, especially if you don’t mitigate with Botox early. I’ve seen it in a lot of my friends as we hit 35/40/45.

Typically, I know there are several 55 year old, 5’10”, size 2 DCUMers who look 30, so don’t come at me.

I also think how old someone looks at 70/80/90 is very much driven by genetics. Prince Philip looked older than the Queen (even accounting for age differences).

Poor Philip looked like a crypt walker.

Let’s see how you look at 98

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Catherine/Kate is also (very) skinny - and that’s one of the fastest ways to age once you’re over 30/35, especially if you don’t mitigate with Botox early. I’ve seen it in a lot of my friends as we hit 35/40/45.

Typically, I know there are several 55 year old, 5’10”, size 2 DCUMers who look 30, so don’t come at me.

I also think how old someone looks at 70/80/90 is very much driven by genetics. Prince Philip looked older than the Queen (even accounting for age differences).

She is very skinny. A famous actress once said you had to choose between your weight and wrinkles. This was before Botox when gaining extra weight was used sometimes to plump out the skin. Maybe it was Lauren Bacall who said this??

If you look at photos of long-ago movie stars, they appear “fat” compared to the skinny people of today. I actually think these older stars looked normal and sexy at a more natural weight.

Kate looks painfully thin and she will probably become hunched over in old age due to the lack of nutrition now.

“A 30-year-old woman must choose between her bottom and her face,” Catherine Deneuve famously declared. You’ve heard it before: After a certain age, you have to make a choice between your—ahem—derrière and your visage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the English don't age well, and don't seem to care about their teeth. Old teeth, old face.

I think their health system causes a lot of this. I've known several Brits who had braces as kids but still had awful teeth in adulthood.

that is because you have to wear a retainer, for life, unless you want your teeth to go back to being crooked.

The English don't put as much stock into perfectly white straight teeth as Americans do. But, yea, they also generally don't go see the dentist regularly, either.

My spouse is British, and in the US they go to the dentist regularly for a checkup, but when they lived in the UK, they didn't and it shows. Spouse has a lot more teeth issues than I do. We all go to the dentist 2x/yr for cleaning and checkup.

[Anonymous]

You are just used to seeing celebrities who have tons of surgery and Botox, so people aging normally look "old" to you. Normal 50yos don't look like JLo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They look like normal aging humans. Americans are conditioned to the fake plastic non-aging look of most American celebrities.

I'm stunned by how much plastic surgery the women AND men I know in my mc suburb have. It's the norm to at least get botox regularly. Many, many of them go for the full mommy lift.

Same here in Virginia. We all get regular botox and a lot of them got tummy tucks, veneers, and implants. We're in an affluent suburb and facelifts after 60 are also the norm. My FIL in FL got hair transplant and a facelift and his wife got everything done (boobs, stomach, lips, facelift, nose). My classmates who are now in California also had everything done and they also wear hair extensions for volume as an everyday thing. Those are normal people with normal jobs or SAHM - not entertainment.

[Anonymous]

Little to no plastic surgery, plus staying thinner.

[Anonymous]

Brits in general go on holiday and burn themselves to a crisp. I don’t quite get it. Some of it is that they’re more fair skinned or ruddy, but a lot of it is not wearing sunscreen and thinking tan or burnt looks good. They also smoke a lot.