Note: there are so many photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in Paris, I’m splitting up the pics in several different posts.
Prince William and Kate knocked out several events as soon as they arrived in Paris on Friday afternoon. They had spent the morning with the Irish Guards, and Kate wore the same bespoke Catherine Walker coatdress in green for the arrival in Paris. She only changed her hairstyle – she took off her hat/fascinator on the trip, and let down her hair. Because in WaityWorld, one must always wear your hair down whenever possible. Here’s the shot of their arrival at the Elysee Palace, being greeted by President Francois Hollande. They also had a private meeting/photo-op with Hollande inside.
Next came an late-afternoon reception at the British Embassy to launch Les Voisins, aka The Neighbors, what’s supposed to be a “year-long celebration of UK-French links.” For that, Kate tried to do a tres chic little black dress but… there are issues. The dress itself is okay – it’s Alexander McQueen and it’s actually a decent design overall. I just think it would have been so much better if she had changed up her styling. That clunky watch needs to go. It’s a strictly daytime-wear watch, it shouldn’t be worn with this kind of dress. I also think this would have been great with with a loose, when-in-Paris chignon and very delicate, simple jewelry. Maybe replace the watch and that ridiculous pearl necklace with simple pieces or one big statement piece, like a gorgeous bracelet. Maybe this necklace is pretty, but you can’t see because Kate’s wiglet is in the way.
And finally, Will and Kate did the big dinner-reception at the British embassy. Kate changed frocks – she wore this “ice blue” Jenny Packham gown. She always wore her hair back partially, a sweet relief, although she should have worn it all up and back. The dress itself is… peculiar. I don’t exactly hate it, but I’m not sure I understand it. It looks like puckered satin, but I’m sure if I was looking at it up close, it would probably look very pretty. Maybe it just doesn’t photograph well? I also think… wrong shoes. At this reception, William tried to make a speech in French but he had to switch over to English pretty quickly. I wonder if he even read his briefing papers for this trip? Also: remember the “dad dancing” to Pharrell’s “Happy” in that video from William’s ski holiday? Yeah, William was confronted with that song during the reception:
No 'dad dancing' from William tonight as Kids United sang Happy, one he performed to in Verbier. pic.twitter.com/sch7dAEzxt
— Richard Palmer (@RoyalReporter) March 17, 2017
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
I loved all her looks. I think the ice blue gown is really lovely. I covet the black lace dress.
I think the evening gown is gorgeous. I like the black sleeveless look, too, but it was not right for the daytime event. Both of these looks are such an improvement IMO from the frumpy 70s and 80s retro stuff she often wears.
Surprisingly I like these looks.
I agree, she looks pretty good.
Am I the only one who thinks that’s all her hair? I have suuuper thick hair and can’t wear a bob, for example (too poofy). All the people in my family do, and I had a roommate in college with like 3 heads of hair to my two! 😉 It happens
She didn’t have that much hair in college.
No, you’re not, Matomeda, I also think it’s her hair. It doesn’t look like a wig to me. She had two pregnancies and it can change the quality of your hair, so it’s possible her hair has thickened over the years.
(I have really thick hair too and I struggle to find hats that fit. I love hats ^^)
I think it’s her hair, just the styling is different i.e.: now she has major blowouts, perhaps it’s set on big rollers to cool (which give MUCH fuller hair). In college, she obviously didn’t bother with all that.
I know, from experience, having had hair exactly like hers, (thickish, slightly wavy), when I “just dried” it (paddle brush), it would look like a medium thickness. When I went all out, I’d blow dry with a large round brush, and then after drying each section, set it with large velco rollers, and let it “cool/set” while putting on my face. Then, after taking them out, with my head upside down, I’d give it a spritz of hair spray while shaking my hair a bit, flip it up, smooth the top layer, and voila! BIG hair. It was a HUGE difference from my everyday, flatter look.
She has wefts put in. There are pictures of her hair “helicoptering” in the wind and bumps where they are added. Your hair doesn’t suddenly become thicker in your 30s than it did in your 20s. Her hair is very curly, frizzy even, in pap photos from a beach vacation with WillNot. She has had blowouts forever to straighten what WillNot calls her “nightmare hair.”
Why wouldn’t it be her hair! My sister and I are well into middle age and our hair has always been insanely thick and fast growing. I just got my hair cut and the floor was covered in hair and nobody even noticed I got a hair cut!
Her former stylist at the salon was known for doing extensions, that was his main money earner. After the pictures of what looked like extensions clearly sewn in, we got the denial from KP about a mysterious (but unnamed) childhood surgery. And the guy known for doing extensions was fired from the salon.
She started adding hair fairly early on. To see her without extensions, you have to go back pre-engagement.
I like all of these too.
Lady Anne Llewellyn’s reception dress was gorgeous; simple and elegant. Kate looks so overdone (and tense) next to her.
Really? I think it looks like a dun-colored hospital gown.
@ Nc Haha, great description. I think Kate looks great.
She’s very chic.
Yes, I loved it too! Classy
Yes, Kate’s look is outdated.
Gad, Camilla wouldn’t even be seen dead in that sparkly long evening dress. Even the 90 year old queen would think twice. Look how effortlessly chic the woman in the cream chiffon looks.
Kate often looks tense. Part of it is because of her poor posture. If we’re talking Lady Anne’s gown, though, I’d have to add that her posture is what ruins it.
Kate looks a little too Disney princess here for my taste, but pretty and appropriate enough. I’m annoyed at the near-match/actual clash of the bag and shoes. Is it the way stuff photographs, do you think, or does she just so often get her colors only almost right?
I’m going like the pearl necklace with the black dress. I’m determined to give her credit for wearing something with a little more heft and humor than her usual expensively bland, dinky circle thing balanced on a rib.
ITA. As long as she’s been at this, you’d think she’d be more relaxed and confident.
I think it would be hard to be relaxed and confident knowing that every single thing about you from the way you wear your hair to your shoes, length of your skirt, jewelry is being critiqued and often criticized. I think she tried to change things up a bit this time, particularly with the black dress, and she looked good. I learned a long time ago that if you want people to change you have to acknowledge when they do make improvements. I am no fan of hers work wise but to be honest, I am not sure she could ever please some people no matter what she wears. I sure don’t envy her life.
How can she be relaxed when she knows CB is on her case 24/7? 🙂
Anne Llewellyn looks so much better than Kate in these photos. She is very chic. Kate looks dated.
AL looks as if she is wearing a Victorian flannelette nightgown.
Agree!
Did anyone listen to these kids signing? They are incredible!!
The woman standing next to Kate in the photos looks way more stylish, has way better makeup and a great hair style and exudes so much more confidence. Kate’s fashion is so basic and boring when compared to women who have real fashion style.
Yeah whoever that lady is- she’s the real star in these shots. What a gorgeous, confident smile! She’s radiant.
Yep, the British Ambassadors wife looked way better than Katie Keen. The simple and chic look that the French favour goes a long way. Waity tries to be glamorous and fails to pull it off.
For her these were good looks but could have been better if she had a proper stylist.
Agree. I want everything she’s wearing in those shots. Would change the colour of the evening dress though – it’s a little drab.
I loathe that “color”–it just looks dirty, plain and unflattering.
Ha! That’s the first thing I noticed in the pics. That lady can wear a paper bag and look chic in it. She wears the hell out of each of her dresses. Her posture and the way she walks is just flat out sexy.
I do like Waity’s dark Alexander McQueen dress. I usually find her McQueen dresses atrocious or old fashion but this one looks youthful and modern.
She looked good. I like that she’s walking in front of her husband.
Unless otherwise specified or arranged, the royal protocol is that she is to walk behind her husband. Why have a problem with that? It isn’t related to her being female, it is related to the silliness that is royalty.
I agree. Those rules should be abolished.
I didn’t say whether or not they should be abolished. Seems strange to be a royal watcher and be upset with royal traditions.
I enjoy fashion not royals, they are a waste of people’s money.
In some pics the Jenny packham looked lovely. Kp posted a pic of them walking down the stairs and they looked lovely. (So did the staircase I want one like that) it looked really shiny but that might just be because of all the flashes. Would have liked it if it was made of a different material. And girl do something different with your hair. Want her to repeat the hairstyle she wore at the Olympics in that teal dress.nicest one to date.
The black dress didn’t like at all. Drab, hated the ring and the necklace. Not to mention if you look at everyone else Kate was completely overdressed. The women beside her is the ambassadors wife- they look like they’re heading to two different events. Didn’t read the notes or misunderstood them?
The green coat-it’s fine like the million and one other green coats she has.
Did anyone see the posts on tumblr of all the clothes she wasn’t reworn? So many things and there was a couple I could think of that weren’t included too. Such a waste of money. Her wardrobe must be massive to store all those things to collect dust.
Sorry Kate looks great by Kate’s standards. She is simply not a good dresser, she dresses 10 years older than her bio age because she lacks self confidence. The ambassador’s wife got it down…simple, chic and elegant!
I think Kate nai!ed every look. She is so much more attractive than Will….I think she gets prettier as he looks more like Charles
I see you are her fan but that shouldn’t make you blind to her haggered botoxed look.
Lol hater much!? I think she looks like a normal 35 year old…she would probably look younger if she gained 15 pounds but I don’t think she botoxes too much….she has forehead lines if you look closely
The lines and jowls come and go, based on whether she’s currently botoxing and the amount of photoshop applied to the photos.
I think she looks good too.
I am in the US and don’t really follow the English royalty closely but I think some of the extremely negative reactions to this woman is pretty hilarious. Does she kick puppies?
@LD i agree, Kate is aging terribly and doesn’t look any better than Will.
I’m no fan, but I agree that next to William (whose face is aging particularly badly) Kate is looking good. Too tan, too thin, and on the cusp on being haggard, but better than her husband. As nc said.
But be fair LD, there are plenty on here who would criticise Kate whatever she did or wore.
Yup I for one appreciate her lines a bit. I use sunblock and don’t smoke, but I’m fair skinned so I’m clearly going to age. We can’t all afford $400 every 4 months for Botox. I appreciate realistic images of ages, so I don’t look like a grandmother when really I just look my age. I hope seeing less Botox makes my own face more “acceptable” to the masses.
Why was there no intel by Kate’s people for the black dress event? She looks ridiculous next to the ambassador’s wife – who looks appropriate for the time of event. I love what she wore (Ambassadors wife again) to evening – the back!!!!
I’m sure there was plenty of intel. Instead of following the dress code, she decided to wear yet another expensive custom McBurton.
If you see other photos from the reception, Kate was not overdressed.
Have seen the photos and to me, she is overdressed. Was this a 1930s theme dressing event for her?
@NOTA: IAWY
I agree with @Nota, she’s completely overdressed by overdoing it really. The sparkly, floral, OTT dress is more than enough. But add the shimmering earrings and the not-quite matching blinged-out clutch and sparkly shoes. It’s too much. I don’t like it anyway. But it’s also not a film premiere. (It’s so cloying, and fussy, and frumpy.) Same goes for the Chanel ensemble. First of all, you might see a little Prada label on a clutch or something, but otherwise Kate rarely wears labels. I don’t really think that’s her doing. It’s mostly because that era of designing with advertisement ended almost a decade ago. So why she wore a logo’d Chanel belt with a logo’d handbag that matches her shoes even when there’s no burgundy in the coat dress itself… She just has no imagination. But speaking of Chanel–Take one thing off. Take two! Take three if she would ever leave Di’s ring home for a day–Which I’ve never liked, isn’t Kate’s style, and rarely ever goes with anything she wears. I hated those chunky, costume-y Balenciaga pearl earrings the first time she wore them. But now seeing their matching cousins the earrings seem almost elegant. And by “see” I mean you can’t because her damn hair is in the way. Always in the way. Perhaps I wouldn’t mind one pearl thing. One would pop. But it overwhelms her and the dress. How fussy can you get? All the oversized pearls together, meeting her hair, plus the belt bow, plus the watch. Did I mention the watch? See that’s how you know she’s overdressed. If you’re wearing a day watch, wear daywear. Something’s wrong. You got a 2+2=5 situation happening.
Yes, Amber, you are spot on.
eh. i wish i could respect these two.
I think both women looked great.
If Kate wore the other Lady’s gown people here would have commented “another sack dress”.
Kate doesn’t have the panache to wear that dress, and so yes – it would have looked like a sack on her.
The McQueen dress is a weird length — would’ve been better tea length. Also, the Packham gown could’ve been hemmed an inch or two — it looks like she could’ve stepped on it.
Props for the green coats dress, Kate.
The buttons ruin it, though.
Ice queen blue very appropriate after the last few days. The DM picked up on some great photographs of her looking at Wills in a way of trying to attract his attention. For a husband who had been a wildling in a night club he wasn’t very tactile
She’s always been like that on engagements, trying to get him to pay attention to her. She is ‘keen’ to push this image as a happy, still madly in love couple.
Her posture is terrible and the wiglet screams junior prom. The dresses are beautiful but I agree the length is off on both. It is amazing to see her next to a woman with genuine style and confidence.
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IMO the Packham is as boring as most Packhams, basic style covered up with beads. Too frilly to suit her. Twee is the word that comes to mind, especially with the stand-up flower details around the neck, waist, and all around the hem. I expect it from a 4 year old’s Easter dress, not an evening gown.
Overly-shiny satin dress, all over sparkly beading, sparkly clutch, sparkly shoes, sparkly jewelry. It is another example of her matchy matchy – everything being the same texture doesn’t work.
The straight skirt is clearly hobbling her. You can see how tightly she’s pulling against the skirt when she tries to walk. Wear a looser skirt, have a walking slit put in the back, or learn to take littler steps. Another example of dysfunctional design from JennyP.
So much for all the fan talk that William is fluent in French, eh? Proved it in Canada the first time, but some people insist he speaks it. He should stop with the half-assed efforts and either 1) learn the language or 2) stop insulting people with his attempts. His grandmother, grandfather, and father are all fluent in it. If he spent any time with them, he might pick up a few more words.
Much as I dislike Kate, I usually like her style (I’m a more conservative dresser … ).
But that Packham looks way too much like a bridesmaid dress from David’s Bridal.
+1 NOTA.
I really like the McQueen, but why wear a statement necklace then cover it up with your hair?
I liked the blue dress from far away but when I saw it up close I decided Irving looked like something from the 80’s with the cheap looking satin and beads.
The black dress is styled pretty badly.
I can’t believe she got this many new clothes for such a short trip. I mean, a different outfit for every event?! I’m surprised we haven’t go to the total cost for the trip.. probably because it’s ridiculously OTT. Sigh.
When Kate wears her hair down it’s harder to see her necklace. I thought the black dress was nice but ruined by the hair worn down. She looked her best on arrival…The Best photos were taken on the steps when she was still in her outfit from the Irish Guards engagement.
In the end this trip was pointless. They only went to France because of this rugby match, no wonder more and more peopel are tired of them and demand a Rexit referendum after the Queen is gone.
Agreed. Very quick and a weird itinerary coupled with a whole lot of money for security, clothes, etc.
Agreed that this is a light tour which honestly felt redundant but that’s on the government (Boris?), not on William and Kate. So far, I think they are doing ok for this tour, ok as in they did what they are expected to do i.e. soft diplomacy. Nothing intensive, nothing more, nothing less. Just some photo ops passing through.
Absolutely loved the whole ice blue dress look. Liked the shoes with the dress.
Also really liked the black dress and its length and in particular the shoes and necklace. Any smaller jewellery would have made the whole outfit too sweety dainty. A bit much though for the time of day.
I don’t like the blue dress, way too long.
She usually dresses dull, drab, and boring. These are good looks. Nice and pretty for a change
As a Rebuplican I only see unemployed celebrities who love to spend other people’s $$$.
I’ve actually had the thought the UK should do away with the royal family and instead have beloved British actors be non-political spokespeople and ambassadors for two-year terms.
That is frankly the oddest thing I have ever heard. Not everyone worships celebs and why trash a thousand plus years of history and tradition for actors? I couldn’t think of anything more depressing than having to look at actors more often. They’re already shoved in our faces over real news incessantly. Please no more!
She has shaken up her shoe game! Three different pairs of shoes and not a wedge or a nude pump in sight! Are those green suede pumps in the first picture?
I like the black dress and the strappy shoes are a nice change.
Don’t like the sparkly gown – I think it would be nicer without the top mesh part. And I wish she’d done a different hairstyle, I really don’t like this half-up half-down thing.
Oddly, with the length of the dress, I found the strap on the shoe distracting.
Lady Anne looks tres chic.
Princess Katherine looks ok I guess but the black lace dress does not fit the occasion and just is too something or another. I find that I don’t like her shoulders exposed like that. Her top looks too small compared to the bottom of the dress. Just throws the whole look off. The little ribbon belt is so childish as well.
The ice blue dress is too figure skater for me. And too tight as somebody already mentioned. With all the bespo(ea)king they do for her, they could have just slit the back so she can walk in a civilised manner not trying to trip over herself. (Love lady Annes sack dress)
ETA I just wish Kate was really something more. She dresses sooooooo blah that it’s sad. Why can’t she have more flair and all. Cambridges truly are a boring couple
Sorry noodle, she isn’t Princess Katherine, and I don’t think she will be until PW become the P of W if you see what I mean. 🙂
One of her titles currently is Princess William, but she is not a princess in her own right. If he becomes Prince of Wales, she’d be “HRH FirstName, The Princess of Wales” but never Princess FirstName. (I think I got that right.)
Diana was never “Princess Diana” either, and was said to cringe every time someone addressed her incorrectly by that.
sorry ladies, I should have used italics or other font to indicate how seriously I take the princess Katherine title 🙂
I know Willy is trying to push her to be princess of something or another and I just find these two stunted ‘adults’ entertainingly boring.
I thought she looked nice in all the outfits, though the black dress was a weird length (should have been full length or shorter). That’s a lot of outfits for such a short trip, though.
Also, wouldn’t William’s speech be written in French, so all he would have to do is read it?
He might have had a copy of the speech with both languages.
Believe me, you wouldn’t understand a word. His French is atrocious. My first language is French, and I had trouble understanding the two sentences he spoke. The last sentence before he reverted to English was “there! I have done my duty”. This is after he gave a speech written by Granny. I thought that was telling.
I like the black dress the best- it’s Kate’s version of her “revenge dress”? To show Will that she can still be the daring, sexy, party girl bedmate to Wills that she was in university? The ice blue dress was too tacky and maybe suitable to a mother of the bride. I like the green coat but it looks like her other green coat dresses.
I love the black dress on her. It did look like a Lady Mary dress but it really suited her. But why wear that watch with it ?Not appropriate for that type of dress. Her hair looked nice too. Of course the entire visit was useless. What was the point again?
What happened to the kiss and tell on William? Tanna was trolling.
Granny/Dad could have pulled it at the last min or it was pushed so not to p!ss the french off over the France visit. It could still happen but it depends on who bought the story.
I was really looking forward to being entertained by the most boring kiss and tell in the history of kiss and tells. Big Willy Dancer has become unshaggable, I mean who’d want to shag someone who danced and behaved like a teenager in a night club for the first time. Urgh.
I don’t think anyone pullled anything. There is bad blood between Tanna and Carole and he saw a chance to troll her.
^ Maybe but it wouldn’t be the first time. They pulled CCTV footage of him shagging a hookup down the fire escape in a club. It was shopped around the press before Granny/Dad stepped in.
I would love Tanna to spill on the Middleton’s – he was tight with them so will have all the dirt.
Sorry, I don’t buy CCTV tapes that never come to light. How many gay sex tapes of Tom Cruise have supposedly been “shopped around”? It’s just gossip.
Right? I was waiting for it this weekend, but no go
I hate the green coat dress. The buttons are too much.
I like the black dress, but it seems almost too much compared to the ambassador’s wife. The pearl necklace looks cheap. Like it came from an Avon’s catalog.
I’m a mixed bag on the ice blue gown. The beading is exquisite, but it seemed rather boxy looking on Kate from the side. The shoes were all wrong, but I’ve given up on Kate’s shoe game.
LOL! The fake pearls remind of Barbara Bush in the Eighties.
The black dress was a cocktail dress that she wore during the afternoon. That’s why it seemed out of place. I think she wanted to show off her tones arms. (shrug)
They may not be fake pearls. I saw very similar earring & necklace settings (much smaller pearls) in Bejing. If they are real, they’re very expensive.
Yep waity has the knack of making everything look cheapie.
Most of the time Middleton dresses like a British royal, conservative, proper and boring. Except for the times she wears flyaway skirts. Mistakes have been made, wearing black to meet children in NYC and wearing pink at the 9-11 Memorial and eye-rolling on that trip. Sigh. She likes dresses with floral patterns and as an old lady I can assure you such dresses look like the old woman dresses I saw in my childhood.
Lady Anne Llewellyn exudes joie de vivre and carries herself with assurance.
YES to it all.
the DM says in an article about the dinner:
“the future King…sat at a table of 10 between film stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Audrey Tautou..Kate sat opposite between film star Jean Reno and yachtsman Alex Thomson.”
I don’t know why I find this so funny. Of course Kate would be in PARIS and seated at dinner next to a British yachtsman, for God’s sake. I would have loved to have heard the conversation, it probably involved a lot about Sir Ben.
I wouldn’t have minded sitting next to Jean Reno – loved him in Ronin. 😜
And in Wasabi, Da Vinci Code, The Professional, French Kiss, Big Blue, Subway. So good in so many things!
THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE ASKED WILLIAM ABOUT HIS TRIP TO SWITZERLAND ..
IN FRONT OF THE PRESS. 😂😂😂😂#FranceForTheWin #FrenchShade
Yep and with the children’s choir singing Farrell’s Happy – he was being trolled, but am sure the kids had always intended to sing that song. The UK’s newest ‘ambassador’ is a laughing stock.
It’s Pharrell. I also don’t think they were trolling him; pretty sure they had been practicing for at least a week, maybe longer.
Link?
That’s just so rude. But what would anyone expect from the French? I’d say that perhaps they should handle their massive domestic issues instead of rudely sniping at others, but the UK is in the same boat. Sorry for ya, Europe.
Kate can never get it quite right. Totally overdressed for a late afternoon reception. She can’t even walk in the JP gown, just ridiculous. Plus that hair. She really could learn something from the ambassador’s wife who looks gorgeous
I’m trying to visualize her with about six inches off her hair and I think she would looks so much more stylish.
I agree.
Why was that bow crooked on the McQueen dress? I didn’t like the fabric of that dress at all. The evening gown was ridiculous, way too sparkly for the situation and her accessories were all wrong with it anyway. TOO MUCH GLITZ AT ONCE. If she had worn a YSL tuxedo suit with those diamonds, and her hair in an elegant french twist with a Lalique hair comb in it, she might have gotten a rave review from me.
That crooked bow is driving me nuts! And yes, that material is awful.
The blue dress is pretty but matronly. My 96 year old grandma wore almost an exact copy of that to my cousin’s wedding.
Been checking on the French ambassador’s wife and as she does not seem to be a ‘Lady’ in her own right i.e. an earl’s daughter, she is not Lady Anne Llewellyn but only Lady Llewellyn. Husband was David Cameron’s chief of staff and got a peerage in the autumn. Wife is apparently French. Rightly, correct me if I am wrong.
Regarding Kate’s titles, she is not ( correctly) Princess Kate or Catherine. If you must Princess her she is Princess William.
Diana was only called Princess Diana through affection. That was never a correct title as she was not a Princess of the royal blood.
Oh that’s too bad. I was so happy at the thought that the British ambassador’s wife was chic enough for the French. Only to find out that she is French, of course she is.
i was surprised she was so good at it.
don ‘t worry kristin scott thomas and charlotte rampling are stylish french adoptees
Fussy- watch – necklace – two rings – strappy sandles and flyaway hair equals desperately trying to take attention off Wills going astray
Huh?
I actually think the real crime here is Will’s tux. Tres outdated, non?
@ HOOPJUMPER- I’m pretty much the least fashionable person in the entire universe, and even I immediately noticed that 😆 Whiny really has no fucks to give, I’m afraid.
The green coat is gorgeous and so is the black dress but I agree, the styling is blahhhhh.
My issue is with the tacky Packham dress. For the love of all things expensive, dump the blingy gowns. So outdated. The ambassadors wife has much more style and it’s clean, simple and classic. Kate has a models’ figure, so one would think she could wear anything but she always misses the mark….
in waity world, she must think “the more sparkle and more like a crown I look, the sooner I will have THE crown.” no girl, just no.
And the sparkly shoes and purse didn’t help either.
it’s ghastly! (I love that word)
Diana wore a very sparkly dress to a reception in the same location. A deliberate ploy by Waity? Paging Dr Freud ……..
@Nota, I agree. That black dress and ankle strap shoes outfit seems like KM looked to Downton’s Lady Mary for style inspiration.
Kate doesn’t have an effortless sense of style. Her body is unbelievably slim – like corset type body slimness — but her arms and face are healthy looking. I think if she cut her hair shoulder length it might give her a new lease on life. I like the other woman’s styling — she looks so much more relaxed and comfortable with herself than Kate. But Kate kind of matches William — stiff and uncomfortable.
I’ve been waiting for someone else to notice this!! Honestly I don’t mean to body-shame at all, but she is now so slim that her toned and healthy-looking arms now appear sort of …brawny.
I do rather like the McBurton (I think it’s tweed and not lace, but if I’m wrong I rescind my like, lol) but the JP is, like the majority of Jenny Packham, as someone else said, GHASTLY! Is JP the Brit equivalent of Marchesa?
Yea, it’s almost cartoonish how thin her waist and hips are opposite the girth of her arms: it creates an odd proportion. She actually looks like someone who has used a corset to train her waist. I think she would look good in some modern styles — like Calvin Klein would be nice on her. She’s what you’d probably call a ‘handsome’ or attractive woman, but not really a ‘sexy’ or feminine woman, so these JP designs are just kind of yuck on her. The McQueen is pretty, but she just seems to be trying too hard. With her great features, I think she could do much better.
LOL……………Marchesa……is completely GHASTLY. Thank god Kate has not been wearing that designer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This may be a stupid question, but… if they get rid of the BRF, does the aristocracy go with it? So, all the dukes, and lord and ladies, etc?
It’s complicated, but my guess is probably not.
I base my answer on what happened the last time we experimented with republicanism and got rid of the King. Longstanding hereditary aristocracy was kept, BUT the house of Lords, the second house in Parliament, was abolished.
I think it’s a complicated question that has not found a viable alternative because it’s not as simple as abolishing monarchy or aristocracy and viola the system automatically becomes republican. From top to bottom, through various governmental, judicial, public structures, the system is set up to support a system of hierarchy. How would an alternative look?
Now that is a very interesting question. Answers on a post card folks.
I think both of these looks are fine and appropriate. I think the black dress would have been nice if it were a little shorter but small thing. And she could have left her watch off but if she wants to know the time that’s her prerogative.
My issue with the McQueen dress is that it’s one of those restrictive kinds of material that forces you to shorten your stride when you walk and do double the amount of steps than you normally do. I think it would be frustrating to wear. Otherwise it looks fine. Some of you have some really weird suggestions though about these dresses.
I love the black dress and heels. She looks great in that outfit.
I’m not mad about either dress. They both made her seem overdressed. Lady Llewelyn’s outfits were more simple and chic. However she has the elegance and poise to carry them off, something that Kate lacks.
The real fashion culprit, to me, was Whiny in his tux. He could do with taking some style tips from his father and grandfather. One of the newspapers published a picture of Charles and Diana at an evening reception in the same place. Diana, as always, looked lovely but Charles looked very dapper in his tuxedo. Tuxedos look much better when the jacket is buttoned.
charles had quite the sexy lean aristocratic figure in his prime.badly none of his sons has inherited it .
an aunt jokingly sent me a gif mocking him with his lovely wedding announcement photo with diana when they young which transform in his old current self with the less handsome camilla to illustrate that time is playing nastily with us..windsor genes are hard.
it looks like diana has taken class from them forever
I think she looks gorgeous, always.
Wait, is it just me or should Wills have the ability to give a speech in French? With the resources and education available to him, knowing that life is going to consist of speeches and meeting with heads of state and foreign dignitaries, I should think fluency in a second language (if not third) should be expected.
p.s. The dresses are yawn.
He spoke some French, badly to an audience
don’t like the gobstopper (fake) pearl earrings, necklace, ring. would be cute on someone who does not have access to a massive vault of genuine jewelry, but seems a little tacky in this setting especially when paired with a $$$$ McQueen dress.
She looks nice but there’s always something missing. In all the pictures my eyes were drawn to Lady Anne, not Kate.
She has no taste. Watch is wrong. I can see pearls though the hair. Anything else would disappear. Belt is horrid. Meg is going to eat her for breakfast. That woman has style.
Rose, I think that relationship is KAPUT!!!
Why?
lady D, I could be wrong but it wasn’t just his aloofness at that wedding in Jamaica but Ms Markle recently said she was going to give up acting to pursue other interest. Me thinks gingerboy said well you know you have your career and I have my thing and so we have conflicting lifestyles and we are on separate continents and well you know, and her response well I’ll give it up. In other words she had her hooks in and he wasn’t having it. Personally I think she was smothering him. Now I think she is desperate to hang on to him so she says she is going to give up acting. Just my own personal take and then again they could be announcing and engagement in August. Me thinks in her dreams!!!!!!
I really don’t get Kate’s refusal to have a stylist. Her style isn’t bad, it just needs a bit of guidance.
She has an amazing figure, is tall and so pretty. She could look fantastic with some guidance. And it’s not as though she’s a spendthrift-she could have fewer things but look great.
A proper stylist would make sure outfits were constructed properly so hems didnt fly up, so she could walk easily (unlike the Packham evening dress) and make sure the outfits were appropriate for the event. A proper stylist would accessorize and ensure great jewellery, shoes and bags.
A good hairdresser would banish the hair bumps on the back of the head and ensure that Kate shone and could be seen, rather than that great mop wearing her.
Time to ask the professionals.
All three of these looks would be improved exponentially if she would just cut/pull back her hair.
I really like the evening dress! The black one too, but it’s just black, so not very exciting to me. I think she’s hamstrung by protocol in not being able to be really adventurous with her accessories, etc.
Is that the same dress in two different colors – blue and silver?
I think the black lace dress is gorgeous and fits her beautifully.
But the belt ruins it, as does all the jewelry. She should have taken off the watch and taken off one other piece of jewelry – either the earrings, necklace or cocktail ring. It’s just too much.
I was confused when I first saw all these pics over the weekend, because I thought this WAS her dress for the black tie dinner (and it seemed a bit too much like a cocktail dress for that), then I realized this was her dress for the afternoon reception. It definitely seems really out of place for the event, which is weird to me. Kate usually dresses “inappropriately” in terms of wearing skirts to events that require lots of bending (with kids), or wearing stilettos to walk on rough gravel, etc, but she usually is within the ballpark when it comes to the general tone or dress code for the occasion. This dress seems really off from that perspective, which is surprising. Isn’t that something her team is supposed to take care of – making sure she’s not significantly overdressed or underdressed?
I think kate looks frumpy and dowdy (what’s the word i’m looking for here?) and yet inappropriate, as usual. i think that sequined number is HIDEOUS and I’m a fan of sequins. It doesn’t help that the other woman in the photos is incredible gorgeous and stylish. Kate looks even more porrly dressed next to her. She should ask her who her stylist is.Her choices look like a 13 year old girl’s idea of how a princess should dress. Blech.
i do feel really sorry for her though. Married to such a jerk.
She always dresses like a little girl or someone stuck in the 90s. I think it’s her mother’s influence. Carol always dominated Kate and probably never let her fully mature so that she’d keep the influence over her household. No wonder Kate still sees herself as a girl and her sartorial choices reflect it. Also, she’s very insecure about her looks (that Barbie doll hair!) and is afraid to develop her style. Both dresses are wrong for different reasons (the belt over the black dress drives me insane) and the blue dress is a classic ‘Disney princess” color and sparkle, very safe and old-fashioned. Carol will recycle it, no doubt. If she had any guts at all, she’d hire a real stylist and stopped listening to Carol’s advice but it’s never going to happen. The military-style coat is something that Diana could have worn mid-90s, the brass buttons are so outdated. The giant hair is another story, I’m so tired of it.
please 90’s did have some absolutely gorgeous clothes,she is just a bad lazy dresser.
her taste for clothes peaked during the waiting years.
as her preparations weren’t going after getting the ring,she is lost.
if carol help her it must be trolling shady kind of counselling…ma middleton is always stylish and appropriate.the best dressed among the three middleton women.