Queen Elizabeth II has been on my sh-t list for months now. She’s not some sweet old lady with a fabulous brooch collection. She’s a nasty piece of work who protects her favorite son from the consequences of his shady, stupid, criminal and rape-y actions. She also had a hand in attempting to prorogue Parliament. And she’s done nothing about the incessant bullying and racist smearing of her granddaughter-in-law. And all of that has happened in just the past four months or so. So… I really don’t want to talk about these cutesy little “fashion updates” from the Queen, but here we are. This is the story the palace wants us to discuss as opposed to how the Queen and her men shut down stories about Jeffrey Epstein.
The Queen no longer uses fur in her outfits, having switched to fake fur this year, her senior dresser has revealed. Angela Kelly, the head of state’s personal adviser and confidante, made the disclosure in her book about her close relationship with the monarch, The Other Side Of The Coin. She wrote: ‘If Her Majesty is due to attend an engagement in particularly cold weather, from 2019 onwards fake fur will be used to make sure she stays warm.’
Buckingham Palace today confirmed the move to FEMAIL, saying: ‘As new outfits are designed for the Queen, any fur used will be fake.’
The palace ‘would not speculate’ on whether any fur coats already owned by the Queen could still be worn, or if the change will extend to the monarch’s historic robe of state, which consists of an ermine and velvet cape, and is worn at the State Opening of Parliament.
The move is believed to make the Queen the first member of the royal family to publicly shun real fur.
Yeah, most royal women wear fur, don’t they? I know Princess Diana had some fur coats, and Camilla has some coats with fur collars and cuffs. I think the Duchess of Cambridge has some fur-collared coats, although it wouldn’t surprise me if Kate’s coats were already fake fur. While most women don’t wear real fur these days, I get the feeling that it’s just a different vibe in the British upper classes entirely. They all still go on fox hunts and they all wear fur. I wonder why the Queen has suddenly changed? Oh well.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Took long enough…
Seriously! Like 30 years ago when everyone ditched fur, she was like “Let’s set up a committee to consider this for an entire lifetime”.
Ok this is controversial… And I absolutely don’t agree with the insane practices of getting said fur… But hear me out. Instead of wearing a biodegradable piece of fur that goes back into the Earth when it’s discarded, we now have tiny fibers of plastic hair that ends up in a landfill or clogging up gills of fish in the ocean, or getting stuck in the digestive tracts of other animals and sea life.
I don’t see this as a more humane option at all, and think it could actually torture more animals into a slow death than a hunted Fox or well kept ermine, you know? The entire planet suffers when you make plastic boots and purses and fur fibers, as opposed to the actual animals that would go into leather, which frankly lasts decades as opposed to 8 months of crappy pleather.
I don’t even eat meat, but I refuse to buy pleather because I just saw a pair of boots per season going into the trash, but my leather purses are still gorgeous after fifteen years, and will be for years to come, you know?
I agree with you 100%. I wear fur that I have harvested myself. Being born and raised in Alaska, that’s just what is used to stay warm. Nothing goes to waste. I don’t agree with the mass murder to “set up shop” and make a bunch of fur items to sell, though.
That top picture is so perfect. It should be the only pic used for her from now on.
@Rapunzel: agreed. It best shows who she truly is.
These fluff stories are so insanely transparent. I would be insulted if I was a British person reading this; they’re publishing this nonsense while avoiding the elephant in the room. They must think their readers are incredibly stupid.
Sinister and repulsive…..?
@Kaiser: motion to always use that menacing photo of the Queen from now on
Great for the animals but she is still a horrible human being.
Great, now stop hunting for fun.
Yeah, I really can’t applaud this when we know the entire family hunts for “sport.” Give me a break.
Yep. I will never understand this. Recently I had an argument with a family member who saw a video of black bear with 2 cubs that another family member recorded while deer hunting. This family member was asking all the details about where to find the mama bear because hes always wanted to bag a bear. Are you kidding me?? She has cubs! I cannot wrap my brain around it, I just cant.
I’m very antihunting (because of game selection it’s very bad for species genetic health and also disruptive of the ecosystem) but even I know that bear hunting and deer hunting are different seasons. And if mama has cubs it’s probably spring. So either the deer hunters were poaching or the bear hunter wanted to poach or both.
People who hunt foxes on horseback are horrible, and even after the ban they still do it they just pretend the fox dies by accident.
Yep yep yep.
Too late to rehabilitate your image, Elizabeth.
The pelt everyone wants is Andrew’s but ok.
Spot on, Lori. I”m one of them.
Good for the animals. The Queen gets no respect from this American who doesn’t matter anymore. The girls in Paris and New York and Florida who Epstein victimized, and who it’s clear Andrew spent lots of time around and USING FOR SEX, don’t matter to the Queen of England.
You win, Lori. 😂
So what? Not wearing fur is supposed to rehab her rep? F-the Queen… She belongs in jail for her work to keep her sexual predator son free.
If you are a good mother, you TURN IN YOUR KIDS WHEN THEY ARE PREDATORS. You allow them to feel consequences. If you don’t, innocent people are effected. People do it all the time. It’s painful, but we are supposed to live in a society with rules that keep vulnerable people safe, but that’s apparently just BS.
Wow turn your kids in when they are predators! Great, but how do you know they are predators and what if they tell you they aren’t. You don’t at least try to believe them or listen to their side? I’m sure the Queen didn’t actually see anything herself, so why would she not listen to her son’s side of the story? Not knowing what he said I don’t know how we could judge whether it was believable or not to his mother?
A couple things really bother me with people’s comments, one the amount of people who are willing to be fervant believers of what they read without hearing the other side is a sad state for our judicial system. Especially, when you are so quick to bash other stories about people you like, but these are all 100% accurate, no wiggle room. Second, you know why men like Epstein get away with it for a long time, they are generally charming people who a lot of people want to be around most people don’t think they are doing something criminal and they don’t notice the signs. It’s not like it’s obvious to someone when you aren’t looking. Sure there are some who are complicit, but a lot of people are just not observant about it. Plus, all these criminals generally have a “legitimate” business going on to hide the other crap. I’m not saying Andrew isn’t a predator, but I’m sure not everyone who was seen with Epstein or even on his jet was participating in his sex trade activities. Honestly, if criminals were that easily spotted, a lot more would be arrested. I know people want to get all the people around Epstein, and all the men who participated, but I just get the feeling people are going after the biggest celebrity, and I wish they would pursue the woman who lured then forced these young women in it. She’s apparently eating out at in and out burger in LA. Just saying catch the bigger fish first, like Weinstein at a comedy club, etc. I know the royals are gossip gold from all the comments and I do it too, but not sure why it just keeps coming with them.
Agreed except I think that Maxwell woman is probably dead- that picture was released a while ago and do we even know when it was taken?
She’s not just a mother but an elderly one- most likely she will never believe this of her favorite son, evidence or not.
@Noway, she is not a normal mother. She is a head of state and head of church and her ENTIRE LIFE revolves around managing the reputations of herself and her family members for the public. How many PR people are employed by this woman and her kids? Regardless of how she actually feels or whether she believes Andrew or not, she handled this stunningly poorly. On every level.
Noway, I would hear my kid out. I have heard the crazy ex out, too. I HAVE heard my kid out. She stole something and bragged about it. She is of age, and it was a small item, and she thought I’d laugh. Instead, I told her that she had the PRIVILEGE of having parents who could afford to purchase $5 items for her, and that, if SHE EVER got caught, I’d show up to court, but I would NOT BAIL HER OUT. Period. She knows that I refuse to protect people who victimize other people. I have a step brother who beat two girlfriends to within an inch of their lives. We no longer speak. If he goes to jail, he deserves it. He is in therapy now. If he changes, great! If he won’t speak to me because I “wasn’t there” for him and believed the women beaten to a pulp, oh well!
People think that their children can do no wrong and they coddle them and want everyone to think that they are little angels. That’s how you get an entitled, selfish society. My kid once told me, “Why can’t you just do stuff for me like the other mothers?” In our middle class town. I explained that I WOULD NOT be accompanying her to job interviews when she was older, so she had to learn, incrementally, how to complete tasks on her own. I could help guide her, but she is her own person. I allowed her to fail under my eye. Plenty of my friends felt she was disrespectful to me. She was severely abused by her dad, and I had to make sure that she didn’t commit suicide when she came back, but I also had the responsibility, and only 6 years until college, of making her an independent human who wouldn’t hurt people, like her dad did, and that meant NOT rescuing her from consequences when she screwed up. She is now free, understands what I was trying to do, we get along great, and she is in a world renowned college in Boston completing her freshman year in their European program.
As for Andrew, there is plenty of photographic evidence and phone records that directly contradict what he’s said. Every time he opens his mouth, the victims release evidence. No one has pics of Bill Gates with his hips against a teenage girl. There are no videos of him watching Epstein’s door, and there aren’t phone records of repeated communications from weird places.
I am a survivor of abuse and domestic violence. Too many people want to other-side this crap. Victims of predators KNOW the evidence. Epstein was protected by a lot of people, some of them “serviced” with “massages” by trafficked women, and now that he’s dead, the BRF and BRP are protecting his predatory ass. So are the “other-side” people.
Have your opinion. I have mine. History will side with me, and men will still turn away and convince women to not believe what their eyes see. I’m not going to sugar coat this crap for people.
@noway – this is a celebrity chat website, not a court of law. People expressing their opinion (here, on social media, in protests, etc) in no way invalidates a criminal/accused criminal getting their day in court.
The issue (for me) isn’t that the queen believes her son (assuming he’s denied his guilt), it’s that she is actively using her immense power to protect him from the law being able to do their job and follow up on the accusations. That’s the issue – the powerful being allowed to get away with crimes (whether it’s a royal, Epstein, Trump, Wall St, etc).
RoyalWatcher, it’s about using power to protect her child, and it is also about regular people learning what real abuse looks like.
We don’t trust women like Guiffrey because men have at up a system that protects them. Celebrities and powerful people aren’t the only people who get away with what he has done. Women are pets to many, many men, and it shows in numerous ways, and we, women included, give the benefit of the doubt to predators who don’t deserve it.
That photo of Andrew with a sex trafficking victim would have gotten anyone else hauled in to a police station for questioning at a minimum. His privilege and power has kept him out of criminal investigation especially since Virginia Giuffre states that he was involved.
There are a lot of reasons why rich men seem to get away with sex crimes and it usually has very little to do with them not having committed these crimes. This entire Epstein situation is a prime example of how you can get away with heinous crimes when you have connections.
It changed because she’s losing favor, and they’re hoping a puff piece about no longer using fur will give people a dose of the warm fuzzies. But people are smarter than this. Okay, so going forward they’ll use fake fur in her wardrobe. but what about the rooms full of furred clothing she already has? I mean the evils of the fur trade isn’t exactly breaking news. I can’t give her much credit for this at the end of her life, when she’s spent decades wearing fur and engaging in all kinds of sport hunting.
Wearing fake fur will not appease those who are outraged by the gross indecencies done to others by her and her family. She can shove it.
Yeaaahhhhhh…because that was the problem.
Maybe not, but fur is A problem. The fur trade is absolutely cruel and disgusting. That it not to absolve her of anything else unrelated.
Sorry. Don’t care about her not wearing fur. Nothing will distract from her shielding Andrew.
Oh, you mean like how they campaign against the ivory trade but have ivory souvenirs all over their palaces? Sure, Queen.
wow after 90 some odd years what a great stand from the Queen 🙄
@S808 this made me laugh out loud. Too true.
I know that the Lord doesn’t like ugly, and I could go before she does, but here on out . . . 😂😂😂. Come on now. She’s 93. A better word choice is needed.
With the fabulous work of Claire Foy in the Crown, everyone warmed up to the Queen. But the real one is a mean old woman.
Claire Foy did do an amazing job. I too was charmed, by her performance, into thinking the Q was a decent human being. No more. That first photo says it all. Creepy.
Yup, mean. And apparently with a tendency to get jealous of the younger, prettier royals.
That is positive news, better late then never. But the big move on her part would be to stop hunting on her estate, that would send a great message.
Fake fur is basically plastic. I can understand no longer buying new furs, but would have made more sense to just recycle and repurpose all of the thousands of furs in the vaults. More sustainable. Those critters are long dead and it’s doesn’t make sense to throw them out. This is just virtue signaling.
Exactly, refurbish the current fur collection and don’t waste more money buying fake. Using what you already have is more economic and less wasteful.
I have a gorgeous mink jacket that belonged to my mom. I would LOVE to wear it, but feel hesitant to. I would NOT go out and buy ANY fur, but how would you go out wearing an “old” one and not get attacked (verbally), or worse?
Seriously asking… no snark.
I know the feeling, OG, I once had an old beaver coat I inherited from my mom that I only wore once or twice and was hesitant to continue wearing it due to my feelings about fur and any reaction in public. But, honestly, even if you wore fake fur, who would know the difference and what would prevent any verbal attacks or paint getting thrown on you anyway? Saying that it’s fake would be considered a ploy. I also had a fake fur that I didn’t wear a lot for the same reasons.
I also have a full length mink coat that belonged to my husband’s grandmother. I wore it once – to a 20’s themed New Year’s Eve party last year. And I felt like my cat was giving me the stink eye the entire time I was waiting for my Uber. But man, did it keep me warm. And the entire time, I was waiting for someone to throw paint on me.
I bought a fur coat at a second-hand vintage thrift store years ago to make blankets for my stray cats. The cashier found my idea offensive.
Why is Angela Kelly allowed to sell a book about the Queen and still work for her when no other courtier has been able to do that? They only write their books once they have left service.
She probably asked for the Queens permission and it’s probably been very heavily vetted.
Royalty is just BS
You said it.
Amen!
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
It’s a CON, a SCAM!!! They have NO power!
This will likely be her only legacy, the first royal to wear fake fur. Too little, too late, your majesty.
A true hero🙄
This is mixing apples and pears, meant to take attention from Prince Andrew. I think The Queen has lost track of time and is not really up to date in many matters. All her life She has been sheltered from the disgusting things going on, that is not changing, especially When it comes to her own flesh and blood. Sadly.
I used to be really big on the no fur thing a few years ago. And then I found out that fake furs are pretty much made from plastics which contributes to more non-biodegradable waste, which is even more harmful to the environment. But I hate the modern day fur industry just as much. I’m really tired and frustrated that there are so few options for people who want to live with a clear conscience and do right by the planet.
Anyway. This does not endear me to the queen in the slightest. It makes me even more angry. Fck her. When the monarchy gets abolished, I hope they have a yard sale and someone starts a foundation that lets people sign up and wear her furs/jewelry, like a big library but for her fancy sh-t.
Does that mean Andrew will finally take off his sheepskin costume?