As we discussed yesterday, the Princess of Wales went to Salisbury on Wednesday, International Women’s Day, to “train” with the Irish Guards. She’s the new honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards, having taken over from her husband. I don’t have much new information here, it’s just that we finally got more photos in late in the day and I wanted to post them.
We also have an ID on her outfit now – Kate wore G-Star Raw jeggings (£150) and her Berghaus boots (£175) paired with “a £149 turtleneck jumper with a cable knit detail and buttoned sleeves from Holland Cooper.” She also wore a camouflage jacket and I missed the fact that her jacket has customized with a little crown button and some extra pizzazz. The Irish Guards know how much Kate loves her buttons. I still have the same question though – if the purpose of this skit was “Colonel Camo Keen pretends to be a soldier,” then why not just wear one of the real uniforms? Why did Kate deck herself out in a £500 outfit, her sapphire ring and gloves she refused to wear?
And yes, this was a skit. This is what Kensington Palace does with Kate now, since she’s incompetent and lazy. They just organize these skits where she wanders around somewhere, jazz-hands for 30 minutes and wears a costume. Kate’s mask fell when she had to pretend to “learn” how to do first-aid in the field. She looks so unhappy!!
Meanwhile, the British papers are trying to make a big deal over the fact that the Sussexes invited the Windsors to Lilibet’s christening and the Windsors didn’t go. I suspect Harry merely invited them because he thought it was the right thing to do, not because he actually believed they would show up. Please… Kate would never recover if she had to travel to Montecito and see how happy the Sussexes are in California. She would be grim about it for YEARS.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Catherine Princess of Wales helping treat a ‘wounded soldier’ in an exercise, during her visit to the Irish Guards, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. She is being instructed by L/Cpl Jodie Newell.Picture,Image: 761262678, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Wiltshire, UK, 08 March 2023: Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.,Image: 761262689, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Wiltshire, UK, 08 March 2023: Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.,Image: 761262706, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Wiltshire, UK, 08 March 2023: Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.,Image: 761262729, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Wiltshire, UK, 08 March 2023: Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.,Image: 761262750, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.Picture,Image: 761371195, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.Picture,Image: 761371244, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.Picture,Image: 761371247, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Catherine Princess of Wales during her visit to the Irish Guards, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.Picture,Image: 761371247, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
The worst. Nothing to offer but bad outfits, bad Botox, bad make up, bad wigs and a fake ass attitude. Gross.
Her preening is another level. I love how a certain princess’s christening with no photos overshadowed her photo op.
Even her babysitter had to be there (the woman in the background)!! 😂😂
Well, THAT explains the olive jeggings; there’s no way she could have worn actual camo pants; she would have looked fatter than her minder!
Christ how I wish I was still in uniform, I would have gladly lost my stripes to come up behind her and yell “GET YOUR BLOODY COVER (HAT) ON WOMAN, your not in fortnum and Mason now!!”
It’s not always appropriate to wear that giant sapphire ring. A simple wedding band would do for excursions such as this one. Maybe she thinks people care more about Diana’s ring than her?? It’s hard to take her seriously at times, but she definitely puts more effort into her role than does her husband. He totally half-asses everything. Who would want to be married to that rage monster?
It’s her trophy. They’ll have to cut it off her hand when she dies someday.
Live from Kensington Palace it’s Princess Can’t. For todays feature Can’t will play in snow, complete with camouflage, with some handsome soldiers. Don’t miss next week’s episode with jazz hands.
I would actually tune-in to YouTube to watch the Princess Can’t weekly show.
I can’t wait for the chubbly episode where Princess Can’t looks wildly around to make sure The Beautiful Meg isn’t around to upstage her.
Any news on her life’s work, benchmark, ten years in the making project that she launched a month and a half ago? Crickets? Alright carry on.
Kaiser, I thought you might be exaggerating a bit when you said she was unhappy about learning first aid, but damn, you were not. Her face is pinched (even her jowls are somehow pinched) in the photo. That’s not a “I’m cold out here but this is interesting” face. That’s a “I can’t believe I’m doing this boring shit. Don’t the peasants know how to do this? Why am I here?” face.
She is probably upset because she is kneeling in the snow in her over-priced jeggings. Since she has the uniform coat on, why isn’t she wearing the rest of the uniform?!?! The military boots, socks and pants with thermals underneath would have been appropriate attire. But here she is, half-dressed and miserable.
She is clearly unaccustomed to even mild discomfort. Can you imagine her waiting 10 minutes for a bus in the winter? Underweight people are especially prone to cold injuries, so there will now be articles about her suffering and frostbite- as if she were on the front lines of an actual war!
And all of this is farcical theatrics to appear too busy to attend her niece’s baptism. “Look at me! I get to play soldier and Harry isn’t allowed anymore! I should be adorned with medals AND buttons!”
I can forgive most people for this foolishness, but she is a senior member of the royal family. She has aides, PR people, servants, military advisors, time and money. There is no excuse.
Right? I don’t get this half-assing the uniform. Either wear a complete uniform or don’t.
This royal cosplayer wouldn’t last a month in Alaska.
She would have looked so much cooler in a real uniform. Those jeggings are horrific.
She’s dressed just like her assistant, except her assistant is wearing a warmer coat & has her hat & gloves on.
I can’t believe she/someone in her team went out of their way to find a £150 pair of jeggings that coordinated with the army camo. JUST WEAR THE PROPER TROUSERS.
Ditto for boots.
If she’d worn the proper trousers then, presumably, when she knelt in the snow, her knees wouldn’t have been freezing cold and soaked through. In a thin pair of leggings? She must have been SO cold. Even a pair of cords or woollen trousers would have been warmer.
She wore big blue in the snow at this “event”? Sapphires are pretty hardy stones but can be damaged as they are not as hard as a diamond. Maybe it’s a case of… tell me you are not wearing the real thing without telling me you’re not wearing the real thing?
And that patch thing on the front of her jacket? Those symbols denote her rank (colonel) and the Crown show it’s in the British Army.
Sharp call on the “crown” patch.
She’s shoved “Big Blue” into dough with the Scouts, worn it sailing, kept it on for ziplining in the jungle. I can’t imagine Charles wants to see the real ring on Kate’s hand either. No doubt in my mind she’s not wearing the real one. Diana’s ring is somewhere in a vault and she’s wearing a duplicate. Real sapphire, but not the ring that’s priceless because Diana wore it.
Well now, that’s an interesting thought. It never occurred to me she may have a dupe of Big Blue to use during these events.
The Crown doesn’t just signify British Army, but armies of the Commonwealth… also very present in Canada
Lolol skit in the snow
I can’t believe she wore her wedding ring on this engagement. She’s not a serious person.
if she took off her ring, that would be a whole other thing. she’s not a serious person, but that doesn’t mean she shouldn’t wear her wedding ring…
How many military women wear rings like her while doing their job? None because it’s an actual hazard to wear it. That thing could get caught in something with serious injury.
If the entire point was for her to at least pretend to do the military exercise / first aid, then she did not need to wear the ring.
It is offensive that she spent that much money on a half ass military cosplay outfit when she could have gotten a real uniform for much less. I can’t believe those jeggings cost that much either.
she’s doing a photo op where she’s sticking cpr stickers on a dummy. like you guys said she’s cosplaying a role of a military person and this is all fake fake fake. also, i work a job that’s labor intensive that requires me to put on gloves, to use my hands, to and i wear my wedding ring. i don’t see anyone telling the military men they shouldn’t wear their wedding rings.
Not trying to be a Kate defender, but in the Canadian military, which is closely aligned with UK, wedding rings are allowed, unless deemed operationally necessary to remove. No faux pas there. Her hair braid, I think is also to standard, which is an acceptable style for women in Combat.
It’s more the e-ring than the wedding band for me. She took it off when she went to Birmingham for the commonwealth games, this would have been another appropriate time to take it off.
Actually doing CPR with that thing on would do more harm than good.
“Today the Princess of Wales unfortunately killed the man she was trying to resuscitate by gouging him to death during chest compressions with an enormous sapphire…”
Agreed with Becks1: it’s wearing big blue here that is weird. Taking that off and just wearing her wedding band would have made the most sense.
No one in the military is wearing an engagement ring that size while on duty. It is an actual hazard and more than just a wedding band.
… and is the woman behind her going to make the tea?…
Such buffoonery.
I despise her. That said she can carry off “sportswear” and whatever the hell you would call this cosplay outdoors outfit, VERY well. Trust me, it kills me to compliment her, but it is only fair. Everything else is usually tragic, so, I am throwing “Jowls” (her Mob Wife name I have assigned her) a bone. Was she really wearing BB? I trust it was paste, but even then, that is tacky. So with that…back to business! I mean laziness, and the wind between her ears.
Looks more like PR for the monarchy rather than the Irish Guards.
My husband, a former Marine, saw these photos and said that he thought those poor soldiers deserved combat pay for having to humor her lazy, charmless ass for the day.
Guys, I am becoming worried for Sargent mcbutton pepper . She has had to go out and perform so much this year that she hasn’t been getting enough time for her regular Botox appointments.
The photo shopped crew aren’t even bothering to cover for her actual face anymore. Poor pepper needs a pepper up potion and there is simply no time to let the Botox settle. What’s a poor princess supposed to do . She is probably looking frantically at her kids school calendar to see when her next off month will be . It’s just too much for her .
G-Star royal purveyor of jeggings. I bought a pair after the last time she wore them and I must say that they are well-made and she is promoting a British brand?
Once you can get your foot through the opening they are super comfortable to wear.
Of course, at the end of the day you have to get your feet back out of the opening, but other than that I would say awesome pants.
Reminds me of the day of my panic attack in a Macy’s changing room. I tried on a pair of leggings in ‘my size’ (which hadn’t been ‘my size’ in a few years), and I couldn’t pull them up over my hips. Then when I tried to take them off, I couldn’t get them over my feet, so I was stuck! Stuck in the changing room! I instantly flushed, my heart racing, sweating bullets, thinking I was going to die there because I couldn’t leave the changing room in my underwear and jeggings around my ankles!
I get that flash of panic every time I try to remove the G-Star – Trapped in Jeggings is no way to die
The crown and pips on her uniform aren’t a big deal or special. They are part of the Warrant, Master Warrant Officer, Chief Warrant Officer, as well as on Officer Ranks of Major and Higher. (In Canada, which is closely aligned with UK)
She has been ramping up the number of events since Spare came out, no?
Wearing an ostentatious ring like Big Blue during military training shows Kate has no respect for the work that is done. The jeggings shows she doesn’t respect the uniform. Taking it off would have been been understood under the circumstances, but I guess she didn’t want gossip of the marriage in trouble if she took it off. Now she really can’t be taken seriously in this “role”.
I am sure it wasn’t the real thing, but whatever it was looked so out of place. She almost had it nailed, then… But that is Kate, the few times she (almost) gets it right, she falls short. Who is advising this girl-woman? One guess. Carol(e)
So, I know I’ve been wonking alot about military dress regs.
Here is what really bothers me. Why the leggings? Vanity or something else? I know in the Canadian dress regs, it is illegal for a non-serving member to wear the uniform, even when retired. (The rules also include costume parties as a no-no, and the use of uniform in media has to be specifically approved by DND). I don’t know whether an honourary member is considered a “serving member”. Anyway, so I googled images of Princess Anne, who is often seen in military uniform. In all the images I found of her in combats, she was wearing leggings as well. Either Kate is cosplaying Anne or there is a rule they are circumventing. I also found the pdf of the British Military dress regs… but its over 1000 pgs long… so I really couldn’t be bothered. Like I’m curious but not THAT curious LOL.
There is an exception for royals to wear the military uniform even if they have never served. Anne does wear the uniform, but she seems to wear it the same way the others do. Charles has also done engagements wearing the less formal military attire but he doesn’t seem to be dressed differently from the other men.
It’s just kate that had to modify her outfit because there was no reason for her not to wear the proper trousers for the training.
Crown Princess Mary has done real military training and she was wearing the regular uniform while doing so.
I think the Princess Anne / Kate wearing jeggings in combats is around the rule that are permitted full military regalia for ceremonial purposes. (Like the Funeral, or Trooping). I don’t think these events “count” as a ceremony — so they didn’t use full combats. That’s my theory. For me, I am more a stickler about the interpretation of rules (and military stuff is my professional wheelhouse)…
She will be getting some of those fake medals to wear just for showing up.😂 Patches will never be enough.
I’m not sure about this, but when Harry was making an appearance as Captain General of the Marines, he wore an authentic marine uniform, which I assume he would be entitled to. Of course, he was also able to take the salute, being honorary colonel. I do know that military are particular about their uniforms and how they should look, and if you are in uniform, you should be uniform so to speak. Even on stage, if you’re playing a military character, or say, the RCMP, you need permission to wear a costume to simulate the uniform. I don’t know if Kate is breaking any rules or not, and one would assume that she would check, but she just appeared to be to be treating it as a costume and making a fashion statement. She just looked frivolous, not serious. The men and women seem to be treating it as a “school trip” for Kate. When Anne appears in uniform, her uniform seems authentic from cap to shoes. I shouldn’t think that jeggings is part of a military uniform. Can someone clarify?
I think it’s safe to say jeggings are not standard issue for any division of the British Army.
How appropriate. She spent money on clothes, wears half of the uniform, show off big blue and smiling every time a photographer is near. This is Wails. The future Q-C of UK. Yes, I think KFC and Escort should be worried, because Wails will outshine them at the Chubbly and Clowning. Certainly, there will be more pictures of her smiling.
Her need to wear jeggings in every casual/semi casual photo op is pathological I swear to god.
GIRL JUST WEAR THE PANTS. Lol
I think this is part of the “real” Wails. She likes to show off her body.
She’s wearing the Playboy Bunny version of the outfit, with just a little more material, so she can look as slim and sporty as possible. What a joke.