Here are some photos from Wimbledon on Saturday, the women’s singles final. Czech player Marketa Vondroušová beat Tunisian Ons Jabeur. It was rough – Jabeur had the match on her racquet, but she just collapsed mentally… for the third time in a major final. Still, I’m happy for Marketa – she’s a weird, gangly, tattooed Czech gal with an idiosyncratic lefty game. The sky’s the limit! (She’ll probably lose first-round in all of the upcoming North American tournaments.)
Anyway, Wimbledon’s royal patron, the Princess of Wales, deigned to show up for the final after ignoring the tournament for ten days (the tournament is only a fortnight). I would assume the only reason Kate agreed to come to the final is because her precious eyes would not have to look upon a Russian or Belarusian player. Kate cosplayed a tennis ball in a pale green Self Portrait dress which retails for £420. She’s been doing some pleated skirts recently and I don’t necessarily hate the style, although this was not great, overall. It’s the combo – a pleated skirt with a tweedy short-sleeved jacket (with buttons!). You’ll never believe what pisses me off the most though – her earrings!! She repeated those faux-pearl earrings which don’t go with the outfit. That alone convinces me that Kate has zero style. Well, that and the fact that she wanders around like a Victorian ghost haunting the All-England Club.
Something interesting to note: Carole and Michael Middleton did not appeal at Wimbledon at all this year. Carole is the bigger tennis fan, and she always tried to make it to Roger Federer’s matches, but now Roger is retired. I’m sure that’s the cover story – why would Carole go to Wimbledon after her fave retired? But Carole also hasn’t been to any public events – events where she might be photographed – since her Party Pieces house of cards collapsed. Everyone knows she’s broke as hell and that she used her royal connections to defraud small businesses and scam the government out of loan money. I guess they don’t let bankrupt a–holes into Wimbledon. Anymore!
Photos courtesy of Cover Images, Avalon Red, Backgrid.
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- Kate, Duchess of Wales, consoles Ons Jabeur (TUN) after she lost the womens’ final on Day 13 at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club, London, UK, 15 July 2023,Image: 789313157, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights, Model Release: no, Credit line: Peter van den Berg / Avalon
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- Kate, Duchess of Cambridge prepares to present the trophies for the womens’ final on Day 13 at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club, London, UK, 15 July 2023,Image: 789315138, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: World Rights, Model Release: no, Credit line: Peter van den Berg / Avalon
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- London, UNITED KINGDOM – Marketa Vondrousova wins her maiden Grand Slam title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. Pictured: Marketa Vondrousova BACKGRID USA 15 JULY 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- London, UNITED KINGDOM – Marketa Vondrousova wins her maiden Grand Slam title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London. Pictured: Ons Jabeur BACKGRID USA 15 JULY 2023 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- The Princess of Wales speaks to India Caddy Guest Services Host on day thirteen of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales (left) during a visit on day thirteen of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Jul 2023 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit on day thirteen of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Jul 2023 Credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Princess of Wales during a visit on day thirteen of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon. Featuring: Catherine, Princess of Wales Where: London, United Kingdom When: 15 Jul 2023 Credit: Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Buttons a peplum and a pleated skirt in the color of grass. The top looks like upholstery fabric. Why oh why.
And boob flaps…at least they don’t have buttons on them.
Ha! I came on to mention that flaps! But, shhh. Don’t give her any ideas about sticking buttons on the flaps….
It’s a horrible outfit.
Thank you for the Carole update, Kaiser! Mr and Mrs Middleton must be soooo embarrassed. I wonder how long it will be before they show their faces again. What are they living on? Whatever happened to the son? There’s no family business left to leave him now. He needs to marry well like his sisters did..
The belted blazer/jacket and long skirt prada look that meghan wore to the engagement with the queen and Harry, k picked that off from her meghan moodboard and literally ran with it.
It’s become incredibly predictable behaviour from her. She’ll pick on certain aspect of Meghan’s signature styles and she’ll wear it over the top and constantly so that people begin to associate it with her.
Desperation, thy name is keen
Doesn’t she have this same outfit in white?
@Elizabeth – I think she has at least 3 more Self Portrait dresses that are white. One that has a Chanel style jacket, another that’s kind of a wraparound jacket and another that looks like this one only there’s some embroidery in the front. There might also be an evening look in white, too. Basically, a tweedy jacket top with a long pleated skirt.
and she thought Meghan wanted her fashion contacts…..this woman has been copying and buying clothes from Designers Meghan usually wears.
E.g.: self-portrait!
Where are her boring coatdresses which were apparently the perfect representation of royalty when Meghan was in the UK? she is a despicable person and hope she gets what she deserves in life!
Far be it from me to say that people must dress in a way that flatters them, but if a human doesn’t have hips or an arse, peplum just looks like a ruffle on a pole.
To me this looks like a costume from an old black and white movie. Myrna Loy or Rosalind.Russel could have worn the entire outfit, earrings included.
@Susan, my first thought was dishtowels, but upholstery fabric is good too.
The bar is so incredibly low for this woman…..
The skirt is beautiful. The blazer on its own, well, okay. But together? Come on, Kate! You were thisclose to getting it right! The skirt with a crisp white top? Breaking up the color scheme that way would have made this a winner. Alas, always second-place Kate.
Her skirts have reached ankle length, there’s not much further to go.
Time for hemlines to start creeping up. The long sister wife look is getting boring.
Eurydice, I cannot understand why she wears dresses/skirts so long. They just add to the frumpy look. I dislike pleated skirts that are this long. The jacket is fine, but the fabric is wrong for the skirt she’s wearing. After all of this time, I’m wondering if she does this stuff deliberately.
The only good thing i can say about the dress is that i like the colour but that is about it. I also think that she maybe should have worn a different colour shoes. I actually like her hair this time around
Are those suede shoes she’s wearing?
I like the color too, but it is the color of a tennis ball. So it’s kinda weird at a tennis match.
Her only job is to present the trophy on the court and the colour of the dress made her blend in with the grass when they did a wide shot of the presentation. She had one job and didn’t understand her role. A brighter colour would have been better.
My thoughts exactly, I like the color, maybe not for a tennis match though. The dress not at all.
She looks awful. From her wiglet to her heels. Her makeup looks so heavy around the eyes a the outfit is a contemporary 80’s style gone wrong. Horrible.
Her make-up has been awful for a while now. The hair and make-up really age her. She’s in desperate need of something more modern and youthful.
I would like to see more of the white dress the woman beside her is wearing. Everything about that outfit is so, so much better that Kkkate’s outfit.
I don’t get her obsession with wearing such heavy makeup in the daytime omg
Amen. It looks out of place and I think it really makes her look old.
I assume it’s out of necessity. This woman appears to be only a step or two away from a nervous breakdown.
@ash. I think she wears such thick makeup because the ugliness inside her is showing up on her face. She needs many layers to try to conceal it.
I guess wearing heavy makeup is to cover up bad skin. She looks really underweight/ undernourished and the skin and hair would show that. Hence, the wiglets and heavy makeup IMO.
She’s wearing makeup in the way her mother would have done in the 80s when this was last in style. Had she learned the style that was current in her own teen years, she would have a much lighter hand because late 90s early 00s, no one wore makeup this heavy if you were under 40.
@girlninja, yep, she has been slapping her makeup on with a trowel lately, and very soon we won’t be able to see her eyes at all. The other thing I noticed is that since Harry’s book she has suddenly taken to touching and hugging people. The problem is that where Katykins is trying so hard to prove she is a hugger and a tougher, it just reinforces what Harry and Megan said. She’s one big phoney, just like her “we are so happily married act
The pointed hugging after Spare came out was pretty hilarious. Way to show you care what Harry says or writes.
There’s a theory that the heavy-makeup is for photographers, but bloody hell it can’t be. No one else does this; you don’t gasp when you see other celebrity makeup. When Chris Jackson has full photoshop time, he tends to even out her makeup, as well as get rid of her wrinkles etc. It’s the contouring that gets me. And she still has awful eyeliner. I remember when some people thought she’d got permanent eye makeup done in the 90s. But I just think she likes it and directs her stylist to crack on with it.
Copykeening the Duchess of Kent from 1993 with her pseudo empathetic hugging of the runner up. And another message to H&M that she really is a hugger.
She did it after the crowd had provided tons of encouragement to Ons who was crying by then. And once the presentation was done, there was a camera on her and of course the hug photo (that she asked for) ends up on the covers in the UK, making herself the story instead of the actual players.
The moment between Jana Novotna and the Duchess of Kent was spontaneous and genuine and you could tell Kate wanted something similar.
Those pockets on the dress look awful and so do those pleats. Sister wife look and her hair needs trimming
She has the trim body for pleated skirts, but that skirt needed a much different top. And as for me, the shoes and purse are a clear signal she has no style sense what so ever. She could have put a smart show and accessorized the color to the purse and ribbon.
I won’t touch her jewelry game, because she has none. The Lord has a funny sense of humor, because if I were in those shoes I would be looting the vault any chance I could get.
It doesn’t seem like she has access to the vault.
She really doesn’t get accessorising. She could have gone with a simple pearl stud instead of those horrid 80s junk pieces.
I really want to set her down in front of a Pinterest colour wheel.
I also find it funny and annoying because it happens all the time, that there was an entire price written about how she as paying “homage” to Louis with those earrings because she wore them to his christening. No, she’s just re wearing an ugly pair of earrings, there’s nothing more to it my god. We’ve literally seen all of her earrings at this point and she re wears a lot of them, some more than others.
It’s actually funny how much money she has and zero sense to do anything with it. Anyone could do a better job than her. I suppose that she truly has nobody that dare say anything to her, just like her husband.
Correction: SHOW should be SHOE. She should have put on a smart shoe.
And yes @Cecile, all that money and it cannot buy style – and rumor has it class. The best stylists and fashion at her fingertips and she never ceases to disappoint.
On a different topic, I once read QE2 had a room with a vast amount of fabric collected used for her clothing. Does anyone know if that went to Cams?
It is wild that one of her only pretend jobs was to be an accessories buyer at Jigsaw, especially when she had some of the worst taste in accessories going.
Those earrings are just tacky.
As long as she’s not copy keening Meghan, I don’t care. She can dress like an antique all she wants. Just realized the only time we’ve seen Carole was when she walked past a camera a few times at that wedding in Jordan.
Did I wake up in 1983 and nobody told me? Keen’s style is just constant drab and it ages her by at least two decades! As for her consoling Ons, sure to some it was cute, but it was also very calculated. Keen couldn’t wait to give Marketa her trophy and then march on over to an evidently defeated Ons to get the money shot hug. Her sincerity is as fake as press-on nails.
The pleated skirt dies not match the top of the outfit.
I’m with you, Tessa. She’s been doing this a lot lately – very structured and textured top against silky pleats or floaty skirt. A real mishmash of formal and relaxed. Very odd. See it nowhere else. It’s the sleeve length that gets to me. It’s very hard to make something look expensive, which it no doubt is, when the arms are a t shirt. It just looks jarring, unless the designer can pull it off with 50s/60s panache.
The question is whether the Middletons show up next year, expecting everyone to have forgotten.
A fair few are asking the same question about Ma and Pa Middleton. I suspect they will come back next year; they don’t give a toss. There is also a lot of criticism of Kate. Why oh why are we looking at her, day in day out, etc. I’d say the mood in the UK is souring now the coronation’s over and we’ve settled into life post the queen. Kate and William seem so out of step.
It’s such a bad look for her. Her hair, the earrings, the dress itself. She looks like something out of the 80s and not in a good way.
I don’t know if it’s actually a dress or not, but if it is separates, then the jacket would have worked better with a slim
Pair of white pants, or the skirt could work with a different top. But as it is, it just looks so DATED and in such a bad way.
It’s a dress.
Why would you do that? Why??
The Middletons weren’t at Ascot either. Are they too ashamed to move in those aristo circles now? Kate looked dowdy as usual but as some one else up post said, I’m just glad she’s not cosplaying Meghan.
Apologises if this was covered many threads ago but doesn’t Kate have access to her own cash so she could at least saved her parents the embarrassment of Party Pieces collapse? At least Carole has shown some decorum about NOT ritzing around Wimbledon when her creditors are still fuming. Surely her own daughter and SIL could have stepped in to help them save face and prevent creditors losing out and who knows Will some of the creditors could have gone on to lose their homes and we know just how keen you are to eradicate homelessness?!
I think the answer is no, she has no money of her own. She’s completely at the mercy of her husband and father in law, like a good little tradwife should be. She has what they deign to give her. Nothing more.
Kate doesn’t have her own money though. She never had a real job and her parents supported her up to age 29 until she got married and from then in it was Charles and now William.
Anything she has now is because of taxpayers and the duchy, which William now controls.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Kate has access to any of her own money. Prior to William, she had no job, and her parents were financing her lifestyle. I imagine whatever expenses she has now comes out of the duchy, which probably has to accounted for in some way and before that it was Charles funding her. Maybe she has something from copywriting the photos she sells to the tabloids, but surely not enough to bail out her parents to the tune of a few million. And now I definitely don’t believe William would allow her to do it with the Cornwall income. She’s always been entirely dependent on somebody to maintain her lifestyle.
I suspect Kate does have independent money. There could be inheritances and also money put into child accounts that have matured. In terms of duchy money – this is the biggest scam of the lot. They owe us a fortune from these tax-dodging cash pots. All this “they cost the tax payer nothing because they have duchy money” is a con.
Ascot is one thing, but at Wimbledon, there would likely have been some boos. The Middletons aren’t going to show up for anything where they may be booed. Regarding cash, the fact that Kate didn’t bail them out tells me she was told not to do so. The other question – what about loaded Uncle Gary? He could have helped too, I would think.
What’s with her face/smile in that first photo (where she’s with the lady)? She looks plastic.
Looking a lot like Carole in that shot.
Thank you! That’s what it is! I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Her smile in most of these photos look so fake and plastic that it’s giving off a mannequin feel about her. Her closed palm resting on the runner ups elbow reminds me of how a doll or mannequins hands. It almost doesn’t look natural how her smile shows the same amount of her teeth, her mouth has varying degrees of being open yet her facial expressions don’t really reflect a smile. Too Barbie or Stepford wife like.
Because she is! Maybe she should talk to William about what his earthshot sht and single use plastics really means 🤔
@MaryPester
Ha! Out of all the great comments in this thread, this is the best!
Also, I can’t get over this woman wore suede shoes and a suede purse with this outfit. And those pearl earrings are so incredibly awful, I didn’t even want to talk about them, but dang they’re ugly!!
My grandmother definitely would have liked (and worn) this outfit. And she had a pair of pearl earrings like Kate’s too. Yikes!
So did Barbara Bush…in the early 90s!
Honestly, I’ve started to feel sorry for her. The weight of being the future Queen and the linchpin to the Middleton’s continued posing in the upper classes has pushed her into this weird style space. She could still be conservative without being so stale… all the beige and white accessories and the Real Housewives hair are just so tired.
the word ‘conservative’ jumped out at me 🙂 I’ve long maintained before that Kate would have better off marrying a Tory MP or a banker.
Theresa May and Liz Truss, for example, were generally well-dressed and appropriate. If they could figure it out, no reason why Kate couldn’t.
She could have gone with a style “uniform”, so the focus is on the players and less on her. She’s the PoW, she doesn’t need any more publicity.
K’s dress from today’s match is much better in cut, fit and color. That said, I am at a loss as to why she insists on wearing these heavy, long, fussy, prissy outfits. This dress (and the mint green from a few days ago) just swallow her. It’s just so much fabric. Even raising the hemline to knee length would be an improvement here. I can’t even speak about the shoes/purse/jewelry situation. Just…why?
The woman in the navy blue blazer and white dress looks more fashionable and modern than her. Kate should have done a look like that. But she probably would have made that look fussy too.
Seriously…why are her eyebrows so painfully asymmetrical??? Can NOBODY fix this for her?
Her mother has the same wonky eyebrows.
And wonky eyes – one is tiny. Goodness, this is nit pickery. But why the hell not – she doesn’t do anything for people to talk about, she just appears with her appearance. I think the uneven eyebrows is a botox disaster. Someone help me with this; there are some real experts on here who know about it! I understand her left eyebrow went into space around about her last trip to the US and it will come down at some point. How come this happens to her? She must be paying the best money for the best people, but her facial work is really poor at times and her skin is dreadful. I know – bad diet, stress, sun, smoking – but her forehead botox is the stuff of Nicole Kidman years ago.
The earrings are real pearls and diamonds. I’ve always hated them because they are very expensive, but look so dated. However, I also hate the cheaper Jewelry she’s been buying lately to look more relatable when she could just be wearing nice pieces she already owns. Her choices leave me disappointed.
I also thought this dress was lemon yellow on tv. Then someone said it was green and it turned almost instantly in my eyes. Color perception is weird!
A great many of her choices leave me disappointed.
I can’t understand how someone with all of this money and access can consistently be so horrible at the one thing she’s expected to do, which is look fashionable and nice. I think I’ve convinced myself that the fugly styled clothes she wears can’t possibly still be in production. Like where do you find such ugly clothes in abundance to be able to consistently look as Kaiser described like “she’s wanders around like a Victorian ghost haunting the All-England Club”? I was wondering why the instant jolt and need to look away comes from, and I realized it’s like knowing about this ghost that will show up at random times but not knowing where or when it will sneak up on you and throw you off with it’s presence. That is Kate’s style in a nutshell. You know you will be disappointed, but for an instant you’ve convinced yourself that something has changed and things will be as they should be but suddenly she appears to disappoint you all over again. It’s like a cycle of high expectations only to be disappointed more with yourself for your unreasonable expectations.
I like your thinking! I wonder whether Kate relies on other people too much. There must be someone buying for her. What are their credentials?
Her style is horrible. She is an attractive woman but almost all her outfits look dated, and a mess. I think it is because she has no sense of style because she has no sense of self. There is nothing to her and due to that, she can’t establish a personal style.
Those cheap looking earrings are Cavolfiore Pearl Diamond Earrings and cost £5,430. They’re real. And ugly.
Good grief. They are vile. Thanks for the info, BW.
It’s OK for royal Kate to touch Ons but it’s a major faux pas for non-royals to touch them?? Wtf. Very patronizing for Kate to hold Ons’ arm. Did K ask permission?
Right? It’s always a headline when a non-royal touches a royal. But royals can touch whoever like it’s some kind of gift. It’s such utter bullshit.
Puffy green with greige accessories? She absolutely is cosplaying a tennis ball. Some needs to have a talk with her stylist about being far too literal.
I absolutely could not believe it. How did she even find a tennis ball colored dress? How and for the love of heaven why?!?!
I can’t stop laughing at the picture I have in my head of her having high level talks with some staff person or another about where to find a tennis ball colored dress!
@ BW Omfg! I would’ve said 5 quid in the kiddie’s section of Claire’s. As Ms Dolly says “It costs me a lot of money to look this cheap”
A solid 4-6″ haircut off the bottom would be so much more flattering.
Diana changed her hairstyle every so often and always looked great.
Kate has the same hair from the day she met William. Boring.
She is too dang thin. Something is going on for a time now that she is clearly not at a healthy weight for her height. Add 15 pounds would do her good.
The hair is actually longer than when she first met him. She used to have it just below the shoulders but once Meghan showed up with her longer hair, guess who got the longer extensions.
Why cut extensions when she could just take them out? It’s not Kate’s hair.
@heykay; I looked up photos of her university days and she had those 10-15 pounds on her and looked so good, healthy and glowing. Perhaps it’s her husband who encourages her to be so slender.
No idea what drives her to be so thin, I can only guess.
But after having 3 kids, she looks much thinner than she did in her college years.
She is underweight. I think that might be why she is wearing the ankle length dresses with pleats also. Pleats add width.
So much press about what she wears, her looks. Of course that comes with BRF.
Just saying she looked healthier w/15-20 on her.
I never think about hair extensions, I just think get a cut!
She could do a lot of good if she’d start openly promoting healthy eating and good self image for kids by setting herself as an example.
Go natural hair and makeup, gain a healthy amount.
That old Wallis Simpson BS of “A Woman can never be too rich or too thin” is garbage.
Her mountains of fake hair must have been too hot, thus pulling it back!
Lots of people say Kate always had really thick hair, but looking at her old pictures this just isn’t true. This new amount of hair must’ve become so cumbersome over the years. Someone on the DM posted, try at least getting your extensions the same colour!
Because she is! Maybe she should talk to William about what his earthshot sht and single use plastics really means 🤔
Isn’t that the second chiffon and tweed combo she’s worn in the last month? Just no. It doesn’t work. And it’s summer. She’s overdressed, even for Wimbledon.
The woman in the first picture wearing the white dress is more up to date than she is. I would like to know what brand that white dress is. Anyone?
If I were to attend a tennis match wearing a dress it would be a shift. Do ladies not wear them in England? To me they are young and modern unlike these long belted fussy dresses. .
The dress Kate wore to today’s match is a midi-length shift in emerald green and is miles better than these past few looks. I totally don’t get it. Once in a blue moon she can wear something that looks pretty good. The rest of the time it’s fussy, matronly, sister-wife fashion.
I think todays emerald dress might be a sheath rather than a shift.
No, a shift dress is a simple straight dress, sleeveless, knee length or above, zip up the back. No waistband, no furbelows, no buttons–very simple & very elegant. It’s also one of the first kinds of dresses you learn to sew because it’s so simple.
With the exception of the earrings which I think are incredibly ugly, everything on its own is a nice piece. It’s the way she puts them together that’s hopeless. The top doesn’t go with the skirt part of the dress. The top part looks too tight. The purse is wrong. The shoes are wrong. The dress colour is decent but wrong for the rest of the accessories, and doesn’t really work at a tennis tournament. It ends up looking drab.
I honestly do not understand how somebody with access to so much money and so much style advice can end up looking dowdy and old.
You’ve got to blame the designer for that mess. Kate’s tweed or boucle jackets with long pleated polyester skirts are actually dresses. Check out the Self-Portrait website. They do this on purpose!
Man that is some tryhard posing.
That dress would have looked fine on Rose in the “Golden Girls.”
She has no style.
I’m almost sure Betty White did wear something like that on the 80s sitcom. It was probably pink or blue though. Not tennis ball green.
I love that, QuiteContrary!
A peplum is supposed to enhance and create an illusion of an hour-glass figure. Dressing Kkkhate in a peplum style is like putting peplum on a broomstick. A couple of cheeseburgers would go further to enhancing her hips than her go-to peplum fashion.
Exactly. It is meant to create a hip to waist and looks silly on her. Just totally pointless and at odds with the whole purpose. Like putting on a life jacket without any water around.
As a Brit, very disappointed in the PoW to skip the men’s doubles final which was on centre court straight after the ladies final. There was a Brit in the final as well ‐ and he won! Such a hardship to sit through another few sets of tennis…
But, but…neither Roger Federer nor Andy Murray were playing, so it wasn’t worth it for Kate, I guess.
Sometimes I look at KM and try really hard to see this great beauty we’re told she is, but, no, she simply isn’t. In some of the photos she looked bloody awful, with really bad skin. There were about three where she obviously couldn’t move her forehead because of botox. She must be getting the best treatment there is, inc fillers, which puts me off the whole caboodle: If Kate Middleton looks this crap after all her interventions, what hope other people? Someone on here once said people laud KM’s ‘beauty’ because it’s a level of attractive that isn’t unusual and therefore not threatening. Perhaps that’s it. Diana was four years younger than this when she died, and she was truly beautiful and vital, with wonderful skin and natural hair. Without the fake hair, Kate Middleton would go unnoticed in real life. You’d notice the hair and that’s all.
I think part of Diana’s appeal was that she was genuine and truly empathetic. Something Kate is not. We also saw Diana blossom from a gauche, shy 19 year old to the charismatic superstar who wowed the world by taking her charity work seriously and being a trailblazer with her outreach eg being seen supporting AIDS sufferers, the disadvantaged with Mother Teresa, the homeless and mental health advocacy etc. Unfortunately, Kate doesn’t seem very interested in making as much of an impact with her platform. She’s seems to be more about her appearance (clothes, hair, jewelry, Botox) than her desire to make any tangible impact with her mostly lightweight causes.
This is a very good point, Chrissy. A poster on the DM said he’d never paid much attention to KM and then realised he’d never heard her speak, in all these years, until the pre-Wimbledon event she did with Federer. He said RF talked well, the others involved were talking well (I think there were some ball girls & boys), but that Kate couldn’t talk naturally or interact at all beyond the bare minimum. This must impact her role significantly, I’d have thought. I wonder whether she’s stunted emotionally in some regards: she was isolated at university, chasing sad sack, and then bereft of work colleagues because she did bugger all work. Another c/ber said she was known to be thoroughly dull at school, so no opportunity for personal growth there, either.
If kate had not married a famous person no one would be calling her a beauty. She’s propped up by the Uk media because they don’t have anyone else in that family with decent looks. In her case she’s clinging to lost youth with all the cosmetic enhancements which makes it less natural.
The only actual beauty in that family after Diana died, moved back to California. And it kills them to admit it which is why they trashed her so much. Even in not so great outfits, Meghan outshone Kate. The shots of makeup free Meghan in the docuseries really shows her natural features are great and she doesn’t need Chris Jackson on stand by to photoshop every time she leaves the house.
@NIC919 💯💯👏
This!
There was a period in the early 2000’s, maybe the 90s too, when I thought British fashion was really quirky and interesting. Does that still exist? Fr, who do I need to follow to see some interesting fashion in the UK? Not even talking about just Kate but it feels so freaking fussy. Kate is obv not the barometer but idk something’s off. It’s still quirky. But almost a contrived quirky. There a lack of irreverence. Maybe, I’m just getting old. Lol, scratch that, I’m def getting old but still. Self-portrait, Beulah London, Emilia wickstead, vampire weekend. I go to those sites to see if I could find one or two dresses I might like and sometimes I do but mostly not. Idk people like those dresses so different styles for different people I guess.
Rest assured – it’s not a totally barren wasteland over here, fashion wise! Bugger knows how she does it, but KM wears stuff I see no other women wearing across her price range or just below. She doesn’t even mix it up competently with high/low end British high street stuff. She’s landed safely with Packham, who loves a flowing gown of nonsense, and a redundant McQueen fashion house that pumps out some really poor quality stuff. She loves a coat dress, of course, but I have never seen anyone wear a coat dress at any formal event I’ve attended or in any work context I’ve been in. I don’t want to broad brush this, but I think she appeals to a large group of women who aren’t really into fashion – by which I mean women in their 30s who copy her look with a floaty summer dress or pussy bow blouse. I always imagine them liking the now defunct Cath Kidson towel sets. Apols in advance to anyone on here who fits this demographic! Our high streets need Topshop back.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s necessarily a Brit thing. Maybe an everywhere thing. I’ve been looking for a dress lately and I’m just feeling blah at everything I’m seeing. Not sure what I want to be seeing but I know im not seeing it. And you’re right about the styling. It makes all the difference.
I wish they would bring the kids to the women’s match. They show so much support for the men. Agree the outfit is hideous.
I’m going to start by saying something nice. Her posture is the best from her I’ve seen in a while.
The belt and the peplum is trying to trick the eye into thinking her torso isn’t long and she has curves. They fail miserably on both fronts and just look ridiculous.
Sunday alert!
DM has photos up from Wimbledon and the celebs are out in droves at center court.
Tom Hiddleston and Sawe look fantastic. I want her entire outfit, including shoes.
James Norton, the actor from Happy Valley, is seen greeting Kate with William slightly standing behind her.
Kate has been caught leering at James Norton, looking as if she’d happily bite his head off and chew him up! The look on Williams face is terrific! LOL
Hope it’s OK to post this, it is just funny AF!
I saw all of this, too! Brad Pitt was loving the attention. There’s a couple of photos where Kate is looking at William and he is fixedly looking away from/beyond her. They must catch these moments on purpose to spin a narrative; I always feel the DM is hinting at discord. These papers must know so damn much, which puts the BRF right where they want them. The readers are now posting that this isn’t a healthy marriage.
First she cosplays a tennis ball, then she displayed the green court. The girl just can’t help theme dressing like a kindergarten teacher.
Ya know, I like everything about this look BUT the skirt with it. The old lady earrings, the formation of buttons, the half back hair, it works for her. And she’s finally been leaning into her envy greens lately, she’s embracing her true shade 🙂 it works for HER y’all.
I’ve no time for KM at all, I believe her to be a really horrible woman, but she looks good here. This styling works for her and, as far as I’m aware, she’s not copying anyone. I think her hair colour that day is darker and flatters her, unlike the red tones and presumably extensions she turned up with on Men’s’ Final Day.
Very fussy, school marm pale green outfit. Awful for days! Woman can’t dress, can’t talk, can’t work and can’t relate to other people–her hand on the other woman’s arm might have been an attempt to imitate empathy, but failed miserably as there was no warmth or ease. She fails at everything except spending the English public’s money on herself. Dislike her so.
Her hand on the other woman’s arm was downright creepy, almost assault.
It smacks of her debtor mother attempting to make KM more personable. Fail.
I’ve spent way too much time comparing pictures of her from the back, looking at Saturday’s match and Sunday’s. Even accounting for the difference in hairstyle, it looks like her hair changed color and grew several inches overnight.
It’s all kinds of fake. The thing is, for many people, Kate is her hair. And it’s just not real. I am totally sure that should her wiglet come loose or be pulled off by some kid, that’ll be the end of Kate in some sense, which goes to show how little else she has. I’ve got big hair but no personality. I’ve got big hair despite being underweight. etc. I’ve got big hair but no bloody work history.
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@kaiser / anyone how can you tell that they are faux pearl earrings? I don’t know anything about pearl jewelry. I’m trying to educate myself!
She was at Andy Murrays first or second round match too, with Roger Federer and his family.
The daily PR of the Wales’ in this case the duchess……..