Royalty daily fashion - ballgowns, tiaras, formal attire, daywear and suits

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Anonymous wrote:The Duchess of Cambridge, wife of Prince William, appeared on a red carpet tonight for a movie premiere. She went very 1970s discotheque. Fitting since its a Bond premiere. Not my most fave look from her but interesting.

A little too over the top for my tastes.

It needed less elaborate hair.

Hair and earrings are wrong, wrong, wrong. She could have used something around her neck. Who let her walk out with that hair though?

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I thought Kate looked great in the gold gown. The over-the-top, retro style was totally appropriate for a James Bond movie premiere, which is about as retro and over-the-top as it comes. And it got people to notice, which is going to be the ongoing story of this generation, as Kate and Meghan trade sartorial blows.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Kate looked great in the gold gown. The over-the-top, retro style was totally appropriate for a James Bond movie premiere, which is about as retro and over-the-top as it comes. And it got people to notice, which is going to be the ongoing story of this generation, as Kate and Meghan trade sartorial blows.

I thought that Kate looked wonderful— although I think a different updo style would have worked even better.

You might be over-generalizing with that last bit, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m struck by how average looking all these people are.

For centuries royalty only married their in-bred cousins or nobles with the same problems. They've branched out since basically World War II but they still aren't marrying supermodels.

For current royal couples were both the man and woman are equally attractive(ish), the hottest reigning couple I'd say is the King and Queen of Bhutan. They rarely leave their kingdom though.

She is gorgeous!

Their entire family is. In a twist (but it was planned because the Bhutanese are big on astrology) - the Queen's sister is married to the King's brother and the Queen's brother is married to the King's sister. It'd be like Pippa Middleton marrying Prince Harry and James Middleton marrying a sister of Harry/William.

They're also sort of locals. Euphelma (the Princess) is a Georgetown graduate and her husband is a pilot.

Princess Eeuphelma's 2020 wedding ceremony to Dasho Thinlay Norbu (Queen Jetsun's brother)


The Queen (left) with her sister and the King's brother

What's the word on whether any of these are love matches? Seems unlikely that this wasn't decreed for some reason.

The Queen comes from a noble Bhutanese line that has previously been descended from the royal family, her siblings astrology charts matched the royal astrology charts from what I read, and they were all moderately attractive therefore acceptable. I do think the King/Queen are a love match but the King has 8 siblings and his father had 4 wives, while the Queen has 4 siblings - not hard to mix-and-match couples among 14 people.

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Anonymous wrote:Also Ayako is 2 years older than Mako but Mako was engaged FIRST. However the Imperial agency allowed the Ayako wedding to go ahead in 2018 and didn't allow Mako's. So she's been waiting since her 2017 engagement.

On top of making her wait 4 years past-engagement (and she's known the young man since 2011), and stripping her of the $1.3 million dowry, the household also is refusing a crucial and highly symbolic wedding ceremony - her last official farewell to the Emperor and Empress of Japan.

Considering she is moving abroad to the United States right after her wedding, its especially cruel.

Jesus. That sounds like the worst life, being part of the Japanese royal family. Just completely controlled by the Imperial agency with no say in anything. Worse than the BRF. Run away Mako!

Wasn't it widely believed that the Imperial Agency's treatment of both Michiko and Masako drove both of them to depression, Masako so much that she was out of the public eye for 10 years?

Yes, it absolutely was. After Masako gave birth 'only' to a girl and kept trying to have more children but was struck by secondary infertility no matter what she did - she spiraled. Women can't inherit the throne in Japan, so a girl was worse than useless. The thing is - her husband stuck by her and tried to do things that made her happy - like talking with the public in less formal settings or going abroad on tours (she was a diplomat fluent in 6 languages before she married in) but the Imperial Agency refused all of his requests. They ordered her sequestered until she gave birth or else...and well - she never did.

Masako is/was so smart and brilliant and they broke her. A Harvard/Oxford graduate, linguist, diplomat, and one of only two women *out of 800 applicants* to pass the Japanese foreign exam in her class.

Masako’s sister-in-law had to step up and bear a male child when she couldn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:She looks like a Queen, stunning.

This look is so appropriate for a Bond premiere. She needed gelled hair slicked back into a low bun, though, not this granny updo.

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Anonymous wrote:She looks like a Queen, stunning.

This look is so appropriate for a Bond premiere. She needed gelled hair slicked back into a low bun, though, not this granny updo.

She looks... tacky.

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The big hair balances the width of the cape. I thought it was very Elizabeth Taylor or Princess Margaret.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole crew at the Bond premiere.


I love the gold dress and it needed an updo but I agree with a PP that there was something off about it.

Too much sleeves.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole crew at the Bond premiere.


I love the gold dress and it needed an updo but I agree with a PP that there was something off about it.

Too much sleeves.

God they are all so awkward. Kate is the most normal looking of the bunch, but she looks particularly over the top here.

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Anonymous wrote:What about something a bit more casual? Princess Diana's jumper looks were always on point. King of street style.

Classic and casual. There’s a reason 90s fashion is coming back into style…

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Anonymous wrote:She looks like a Queen, stunning.

This look is so appropriate for a Bond premiere. She needed gelled hair slicked back into a low bun, though, not this granny updo.

She looks... tacky.

+1. Everything is so OTT. There’s “good” blingy and there’s… this

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Anonymous wrote:She looks like a Queen, stunning.

This look is so appropriate for a Bond premiere. She needed gelled hair slicked back into a low bun, though, not this granny updo.

She looks... tacky.

It's a bond premiere. It's a fun look. An ode to Goldfinger.

+1. Everything is so OTT. There’s “good” blingy and there’s… this

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Kate looked great in the gold gown. The over-the-top, retro style was totally appropriate for a James Bond movie premiere, which is about as retro and over-the-top as it comes. And it got people to notice, which is going to be the ongoing story of this generation, as Kate and Meghan trade sartorial blows.

I don’t think either woman considers her SIL a rival. They have very different styles and now travel in very different circles. But the tabloids profit from telling weak-minded women that there’s a great clash between these two and they have to take a side.

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Anonymous wrote:What about something a bit more casual? Princess Diana's jumper looks were always on point. King of street style.

Cute! I wonder if fans sent her the sweatshirts?