Nicky Haslam is a British interior designer and professional snob. He’s well-connected and counts King Charles and Queen Camilla as good friends and supporters. He makes news every so often for talking sh-t about royals and celebrities. In 2018, he talked sh-t about the Duchess of Sussex and her family, although Haslam apparently thinks Doria Ragland is above reproach. Well, Haslam has released his annual list of what’s “common” (as in, low class) in Britain. And he ended up slamming Prince William and Kate:
Born to one of Queen Victoria’s goddaughters, Nicky Haslam socialised with Princess Diana, has worked for King Charles, is a good friend of Queen Camilla and once sang in front of Queen Elizabeth. The waspish interior designer is, however, not impressed by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Haslam, 84, accuses the heir to the throne and his wife of being ‘childish’, unsophisticated and dressing like dummies in a department store window.
So disappointed is he that he’s included them on his ‘Common List’, his playfully snobbish compilation of things that have caused him distress over the past year.
The family are included as ‘The Waleses in blue’, referring to the way that they have worn colour co-ordinated outfits. ‘You see endless pictures of the whole family in various shades of blue,’ he tells me. ‘It’s common. It’s so odd to see an entire family dressed in blue. Wouldn’t little Princess Charlotte like to wear white? It’s supposed to suggest a calm upper-classness, which is so dull. If you look at pictures from the old days, the royals had wonderful exotic clothes. But now they look like dummies in Peter Jones’s window.’
He adds of William and Catherine: ‘They do childish things, like play football and games. They couldn’t be less sophisticated. They don’t go to literary lunches and read extraordinary books or go to the theatre.’
The Old Etonian also includes ‘fly-pasts’ on his list. ‘They come at every single opportunity, they even happen in France now,’ he tells me. ‘The royals must also find them common. Wouldn’t you after the 100th fly-past? Wouldn’t you rather get inside and have a drink?’
Haslam, whose clients have included Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Rod Stewart, also condemns Wimbledon, telling me: ‘The people who go to it, the whole atmosphere, is now common, there is no glamour whatsoever. It’s no longer elite.’
The Wimbledon thing is funny because so many celebrities turned out for Wimbledon this year, and the royal reporters rushed to give Princess Kate “credit” for creating such an A-list atmosphere, even though she only turned up one time before the finals. The All-England Club is actually trying to be a touch more “common” and user-friendly – they’re trying to make money, after all.
As for Haslam’s criticism of Rage and Wiglet… he’s right? The thing is, Kate used to be praised for bringing her “middle class” values to the Windsors. Things like coordinating colors with her children, going to sporting events, being anti-intellectual, all of that was praised back in the day. More than twelve years into the marriage, it’s wearing thin. They expected Kate and William to bring more sophistication and pizzazz to the Wales titles, but instead, they’re the same old, dull, unimaginative, childish, lazy a–holes.
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What a gift to be a tedious snob and so correct at the same time.
Oh Bettyrose-so beautifully and accurately expressed.
RIGHT???? Lordy he sounds awful but he’s also not wrong lol.
Praising Doria shows he knows what he’s talking about.
He may be a problematic snob, but he describes the Wales family to a t. And to prove his point, Kaiser helpfully provides pix of them color coordinated in blue. Perfect!
@Nic919 – clicked the link and he was talking about Meghan’s dad and what a shitshow he is and how he was glad her dad didn’t come to the wedding. I mean, Meghan’s paternal side is “common” or as I’d say tacky trash. I’m fine with his comments about the nasty Markles!
Seriously @Bettyrose I was rolling my eyes while reading and thinking Nicky Haslam must be insufferable in real life. While being accurate about the Wales being dull, unimaginative, and overly obsessed with the color blue he comes across as so superficial and nitpicky that I don’t value any of his opinions.
That comment about color coordination is priceless. Definitely cray cray but so right. Very uninspiring of Kate. I can’t believe she doesn’t see how dull they look
@bettyrose, that comment is a thing of beauty. So perfect.
Perfect response.
Lmao exactly. This dude may be insufferable, but when he’s right, he’s right. I also love how much these criticisms will bother W&K— because they’ll know they’re true.
Well he isn’t lying they are so very dull. It seems to me he is calling out their intelligence or lack there of by saying the don’t do literary lunches or the theater. I’m sure somewhere in Singapore there is a temper tantrum being thrown with pillows of course just to dull said tantrum down😂😂😂😂😂.
He is most definitely calling out their obvious lack of intelligence, but again, he’s not wrong, sooooo
I’m torn here because I usually detest this kind of snobbery as part of what is wrong with the monarchy and peerage system in general but in this instance, said snob is not wrong.
And the only real reason it even matters because the Wails are in a one sided glitz and charisma-off that they can’t possibly hope to win. It really must gall William after his Earthshot attempts to court glamour.
The Wails are snobs, so I think it is fair game for this person to engage in some posh on posh crime and call them out for being oh-so-middle class. There’s nothing wrong with being middle class of course but tell that to the Keens. They thrive on their so called superiority.
Posh on posh crime – I love it!
Posh on posh crime! I’m on the floor!
“Posh on posh crime” is fcking perfection!
Omg, I’m also dying at “posh on posh crime”
Charles and Camilla had to authorize this hit piece and I think it’s a class dig at Kate. The future king married a girl whose family is three generations from the coal mines and now exposed as welchers thanks to Party Pieces going bust. He is also going on that family dressing alike is such a middle-class thing, you might as well has matching Xmas pajamas.
I also think it’s payback for stepping over Charles’ opening Parliament with William’s Singapore trip.
From an American standpoint it’s infuriating, the idea that middle class = anti-intellectual. The keepers of education, teachers and professors, are often clinging to middle class status by a mere thread with low salaries, but thrive on intellectual pursuits. Meanwhile the wealthy benefactors of art and culture often couldn’t be less interested in their patronages.
Kate three generations from the coal mines and given a top tier education could absolutely challenge those ugly stereotypes. Access to culture is about opportunity not pedigree.
This is the thing, @BettyRose the British royal family was never intellectual and didn’t like intellectual pursuits. They like horses, dogs, guns, gin. I’ll never forget the story of TS Eliot going to Buckingham Palace to read his new poem the Waste Land-the Queen Mother and Princess Elizabeth and Margaret were laughing behind their hands because they thought his poem was so stupid. Charles is the only intellectual, and his father bullied him for it.
@Bettyrose, in principle I totally agree with you, but Kate has shown herself to be SO intellectually incurious, provincial, uninterested in learning anything about the world outside her bubble…the list goes on — so in this case, I’m allowing myself to laugh at the truthfulness of this Nicky asshole’s claims.
@Lorelei – Absolutely. Just lamenting the waste of opportunity. Just imagine: “Well educated Wills and his well educated bride encourage learning and intellectual exploration at primary schools across Britain, teaching kids that anything is possible.”
@NickG Queen Mary was very intellectually curious and culturally minded. She was constantly stymied in her attempts to impart any of that to future generations.
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THE WAR IS ON WITH CHARLES AND WILLIAM😁😁
Yeah, I’ve been waiting for Charles, via Camilla, to unleash the kraken upon the Wales. This is kinda light but maybe it’s just the start.
@swaz, you are so right and we are all here for it. Final note, surely by now the Palace has to realise, that any “get up and go”, Kate and willy had, got up and went about 9 years ago. Roll on the full, booze filled Royal malaise
Wow thanks for the photos! They do wear a lot of blue. Also…lol matching pajamas next. Laugh for the day just thinking about camel toe!
That’s what I really noticed, seeing the compilation together here really brings it home. I can’t get over the header shot – they didn’t have ONE with all of them looking at the camera.
in the middle (heh) photo, Kate’s coatdress is giving “that girls’ school visits Harry Potter’s school” vibes. you know the scene where they fly around the lodge in their little blue coatdresses…
The coordinating blue outfits have always struck me as weird. Normal families don’t dress like that.
Here its very common for the very typical family pictures, usually from an untrained photographer with a nice camera, everyone is all matching and coordinated. And there’s a certain uniform too. In the fall? Burgundy, gold, navy. On the beach? White and khaki. etc.
I both agree and disagree. Normal families don’t dress like that, but I do think normal families think about that kind of thing when they know they’re going to be photographed. Like when my husband and I are going to an event – whether it’s a wedding, a gala, or the Kentucky Derby (we live in Kentucky), we don’t try to match, but I do base certain things I am wearing around the color of his tie or vice versa. So like if we are going to an event and he’s wearing a dark green tie, I wouldn’t wear red just so we don’t look Christmassy. Or if I’m wearing a blue dress, he’d consider wearing a blue or navy tie and not like, a red tie, so people don’t think we are dressing as a house divided in Kentucky (University of Kentucky vs University of Louisville) even though we are totally a house divided. Haha!
But also we aren’t famous and we dont have children that we are also dressing to match.
I have OCD like tendencies too, though. Mild symmetry OCD is what my doctor told me in high school. Not everyone is like that! But it stresses me out to have on like, a nude bra with a black top when I can wear the exact same bra in black with the black top. Or when I do the dishes all of the spoons go in first slot, then forks, then butter knives, then sharp knives in the last slot. Makes putting them away much easier! Anyway my point is that some of this may be compulsion on Kate or Will’s part.
Blue is for Blue Blood, don’t you know? it sounds like the very tacky thing that the Middletons would come up with.
Just because Nicky’s a pretentious snob doesn’t mean he isn’t right. Kate overdid the blue with the family photos, especially with Charlotte. A cute little princess, a nice clothing budget, access to every brand on earth, but repeatedly turns out in nothing but shades of blue. Boring.
Kate (and her mother) have been obsessed with Di’s sapphire engagement ring and I am convinced haven’t deviated from blue clothes in photos because of this.
And I do wonder if this peculiar story about William fretting over ‘Meghan’s engagement ring’ that keeps popping up is actually the RR trying to suggest that “Big Blue” is AWOL and Kate is wearing a fake.
Yes to all of the above, blue was ‘her’ colour to match the ring. I get that being in the public eye you want to create a certain brand but this is so basic.
You think Big Blue has been lost? I’m thinking of the missing jewelry that Kate was last seen wearing. I have always thought the real Big Blue is locked up somewhere and Kate has never had it.
Just thinking out loud, really.
I have no idea if Diana’s sapphire ring is missing but the fact that a story about William being disturbed about his sister in law’s ring (So odd and nonsensical. What difference does it make if your brother’s wife isn’t wearing her engagement ring?) had been written about in the papers more than once is strange let alone written in the first place.
A necklace last seen on Kate went missing, was that all?
I also believe Kate wears a duplicate ring but what if the dupe is accounted for and the real one isn’t? Why should a couple of diamonds from Diana’s bracelet set in a ring that William had nothing to do with be referred to as needing verification that it isn’t missing multiple times?
Interesting he mentions fly pasts which seem to happen every time there’s a royal get together…not the best look for the 🌍 💩 eco warrior to get excited about either
He failed to mention the significance of Kate dressing the family in “royal blue.” At the engagements of both Diana & Kate, they wore blue. A fuss was made when Meghan showed up in green and a white coat. Here’s the tea:
The name “royal blue” was first used in 1810-1820. The “royal” in royal blue comes from England, where the hue was said to have been created for a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte (1744—1818).
The shade of blue associated with the name has actually changed over time. Before the 1950s, royal blue was considered to be much darker. In the late 1980s, the World Wide Web Consortium—which is the international group for web standards—matched this brighter blue, along with its RGB code, to the name “royal blue”.
“Queen blue” and “imperial blue” are lesser-known versions of royal blue. Queen blue is a medium tone version of royal blue, with a more subdued effect, while imperial blue describes a darker shade, close to navy.
In keeping with its association with British history, the color royal blue features on the United Kingdom’s flag, which is known as the Union Jack.
Thank you for this explanation! I’ve always had one shade of blue in mind when I think of royal blue, but been puzzled a few times because the shade haven’t been remotely what I’d consider to be royal blue.
This is super interesting, thank you. I agree with Couch Potato that what I picture as royal blue definitely isn’t always the colour I see labelled that way.
This is so interesting; thank you for posting it. I *always* learn new things on here!
I’m curious about what he calls the old days when royals wore wonderfully exotic clothes. Like when was that fr? Margaret? Who and when is he taking about?
Anne experimented quite a bit in the 70’s with Pucci prints, lots of color, etc. But yeah, he’s basically talking about Margaret.
Margaret, but even the Queen was more interesting back in the day. Everyone said that Kate’s coat dresses were fine bc she was dressing like the queen, but QEII didn’t dress like that when she was 25, 30. Yes she wore coatdresses but those were just the style in general back then. Her hats were interesting, her evening gowns were interesting (think of Beatrice’s wedding dress), she didn’t always wear the exact same cut or style, etc.
Betty was tits out and covered in bling and fur back in the day. You could tell her and Margaret were into fashion and loved to flex and were probably competing with each other to. Diana would even wear men’s tuxedos and in general she had a LOT of fun with fashion. Fergie might not have always gotten it right but you were never bored. The current batch of royals (excluding Harry and Meghan) don’t know how to dress AND what they put on is bland as hell.
Very much, when you look back at photos of her at events or the dresses that sometimes show up on the V&A IG or similar they are glam.
The Queen was quite glamorous with evening wear in her twenties and wore some stunning fashions. As already mentioned, she and Margaret were quite into fashion and even attended fashion shows, according to reports. Elizabeth were seen as a glamorous couple-Phil was handsome and cut a dashing figure. I think Margaret and Antony were very much part of the arts crowd. Diana post separation was a style icon. Even Anne was stylish in her youth. Fergie, Sophie, Kate are not that stylish or glamorous. Charles supports the arts- it was said that he loved the opera and hated the ballet and Diana hated opera and loved ballet. No wonder they were incompatible! I guess the Windsors are all a dull lot these days. Oh, I think Kate has taken Charlotte to the ballet, once. Mind you, George VI and Elizabeth always struck me as a dull couple, and since then, they have driven out any woman who has charisma, glam, and intellect.
Yup. What Elizabeth was wearing when she was in her 20s and 30s was pretty fashionable for her age group. She was never quite as effortlessly glamorous as her sister, but she wasn’t dowdy.
Even the relatively staid Queen Mary had amazing embroidery on her gowns. She was quit a patron and took a lot of inspiration from travels to India as well as her interest in Asia. There are several of her outfits and embroidered fabric at the V&A.
If he means colour, then the Queen comes to mind – she said she wore bright colours and coordinating hats so people could easily spot her as she wasn’t very tall. Margaret and Anne were more colourful as Lizzie Bathory states.
I think by exotic he means not what everyday people are wearing. No risk of TQ showing up to an event and finding someone else in the same dress. All her clothes were custom made. Current royals buy off the rack
I guess pretentious, elitist snobs are like broken clocks… right twice a day.
Why this accurate take is being allowed to be published is the real question.
And really-you don’t have to be “upper crust” to love art, music , theater and literature. I think the fact that William and Kate exhibit ZERO intellectual or artistic curiosity is really telling. They are common and boring.
I agree. I think that is what is bothering the posh. These 2 are uncurious, they don’t invest in cultural improvements, no art galleries, no local artists, no writers, musicians, nothing of value. They’re dull, not creative, just vapid.
So true! It might not be posh culture like opera or the old russiand writers, but most “commoners” like some kind of culture.
Just think how much they could do for the arts by simply attending the symphony, opera and theater regularly. Even monthly, that would be three nights out of 30, and we know that they aren’t busy. They could encourage attendance and support by simply going. Gah. It is so frustrating that they can’t think creatively and strategically.
but then they would have to sit next to each other! for an hour or more! or else go separately and contribute to the separation narrative. poor sausages! poor self-centered crybaby sausages.
I look at the images of Pegs and Wiglet and all I can think of is:
Yo, listen up here’s a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his house
With a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
Cause he ain’t got nobody to listen
I’m blue
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
I’m blue
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
I have a blue house
With a blue window
Blue is the colour of all that I wear
Blue are the streets
And all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here
That walk around
Blue like my corvette its in and outside
Blue are the words I say
And what I think
Blue are the feelings
That live inside me
I’m blue
Interesting I see no lies in Halsams assessment of Meghans family. He didn’t talk about her per the article just her heel of a father. And her dress, which he said was too thick of a material and I don’t detect any lies their either.
Looks like people tried to spin it as calling her common. Just wanted to point that out because I’m tickled pink that he THRASHED the Wales’ and only gave the Duchess a light tap
So this reminds me of an article from years ago, I think maybe it was one of those Ephraim Hardcastle columns – about how boring W&K were and about how they weren’t glamorous or elegant at all and they were too everyday. The gist of the article was basically that people WANT the royals to be seen as elegant, as above them, as a little mysterious – or else what are they paying for?
I feel like this is similar – he’s saying what’s the point of the Waleses being people we’re supposed to look up to when they’re just like us?
And honestly, nothing is wrong with football or whatever, but the lack of intellectual curiosity or cultural interest from the Waleses is pretty astounding.
After decades in the public eye could anyone really say that kate or William even read? There are no references to favourite authors and kate seems unable to speak the language of her university degree with her dumb questions about faberge eggs.
It is always talk about being sporty but nothing else.
And the over use of blue is boring. I’m surprised he didn’t comment on the Diana cosplay a bit more.
He spoke for C&C, so no mention of Diana.
This exactly. They could do both-nothing wrong with that.
I can’t believe they don’t attend the theater. And they live in London. What a waste.
They live in a cultural melting pot of a capital city and have nothing to show for it. This is very much embarrassing.
I don’t think people would mind them being less glamorous and elegant at ordinary engagements, if they’d done it more often and seemed interested and engaged. If they’d actually had any intellectual curiosity. If they’d actually had a subject or two they’d been passionate about, people would connect them with it. Early years and earthshit are “flops” because everyone can tell they’re not genuinely interested.
Look at Anne, she’s wearing clothes my dead nans wouldn’t be caught dead in, but she’s still quite popular because she “works” a lot. Dressing like department store dummies, when dummies is pretty much what they are, isn’t going to cut it in the long run. The criticism isn’t going to be less in the future, unless they find another scape goat to divert the rota from their boringness.
Yes, I agree that the lack of elegance could be explained away if it was “W&K dont have time for that, they’re too busy working, getting their hands dirty with their projects, etc.” Instead they’re just…….dressing like department store dummies.
Yes I remember there was some article that everyone was expecting William and Kate at KP to lead London society after their marriage, have lots of soirees and circles of interesting arty or creative people, etc…but all they wanted to do was retreat to Anmer and isolate themselves from everyone. There was the one event with Kate and Charles at the Royal Opera but since then no attention paid to the arts other than movie premieres where William talks about his shoes. Haslam’s a terrible bore who dines out on his dishing royals while not actually being part of their inner circle, but he’s not wrong…
The Crown even featured this lack of interest in anything resembling culture or intellect in the RF with the episode where Margaret Thatcher visited Balmoral and all they wanted to do was play silly drinking games. It’s a feature, not a bug.
Also, didn’t Camilla famously say of Kate “she’s never picked up a book in her life, has she?”
@LadyEsther, I remember that piece too! W&K have always been so ridiculously secretive, like their precious interests were state secrets that the peasants weren’t worthy of even hearing about.
But after this many years, we know enough about them to know that they like Downton Abbey, Harry Potter, and (allegedly) watching Suits 🙃. We know that Will likes his shooting weekends, and I guess now we can add Kate swimming at night in the rain to the list.
I recall them being photographed by paps at a movie theater seeing some comedy like one time ten years ago, and they don’t even bother going to the BAFTAs half the time.
I don’t think that either one of them read for pleasure— I don’t remember Camilla making that comment, but it wouldn’t surprise me *at all.* They just don’t strike me as voracious readers, lol. They never seem to talk about what they’re reading or ask others. IMO the only thing they likely read religiously is their own press, and they’ll maybe read their briefing papers occasionally (if they feel like it).
Kate took Charlotte to see The Nutcracker but that’s a fairly common holiday tradition that doesn’t necessarily signify a serious interest in the ballet on Kate’s part. And even though she’s a patron of the National Portrait Gallery, she only seems to go when there’s a big new unveiling or something; an event in which it would look bad for the patron to miss it. (But even one of those visits was to see the the unveiling of the portrait OF HERSELF 🙄.)
I remember when we first started learning about Kate, I was shocked at how little she’d traveled. She seemed content to stay in her London bubble, leaving only for beach vacations or ski trips.
But the BRF has never been known for their sterling intellect, so I guess it’s not surprising that W&K are no exception. It’s just that around the time of the wedding, the press made such a huge deal out of the fact that Kate was the first university-educated royal bride— but you sure wouldn’t know it from observing her.
“They expected Kate and William to bring more sophistication and pizzazz to the Wales titles, but instead, they’re the same old, dull, unimaginative, childish, lazy a–holes.”
They had sophistication and pizzazz…they now live in Montecito.
^^ This! All the way. But the royalists are too stupid and mean to get the irony of it.
Spot on!
Shame on you thinking lazy, dull people will change with a new title. People show you who they are…believe them the first time.
the last royals with style and intellectual curiosity were Meghan, Diana, and Margaret. and look what happened to them! Kate had best keep her empty head down.
Being uncertain about my understanding of the word unsophisticated, I looked it up. Artless. Lacking refined worldly knowledge or taste. Not highly developed or complex. Intellectually uncurious. Yup. That’s her.
Kate and William “couldn’t be less sophisticated.” That’s going to leave a mark LOL.
It sure is. Especially because W&K know that it’s true.
This is interesting. I am sure a certain segment of the British Upper Class is snobby about art, literature, and music. But I thought the Gentry itself was supposed to be sort of intellectually incurious? To care more about dogs, horses and maintaining their old houses and portraits than anything else?
I mean, he’s right. I’m just surprised it’s an issue for him. I don’t think QE2 was much into the arts herself. Philip and Margaret explored a bit more, but she didn’t, did she?
I don’t think it was her thing as much-but she absolutely loved musicals and did attend all kinds of museum events as part of her role. Like William and Kate can’t even fake it. So dull.
She also loved military concerts etc.. and live stage events such as the Royal Variety Performance (I remember how much fun she’d have at them).
Plus as we all know – she loved anything that had horses or dogs in it as well.
Margaret was keen on Pablo Picasso in more ways than one. K will be kept on for the ribbon cutting (what IS it with those jazz hands I mean what is she saying?) the kids will be reprogrammed to become ‘Royal’ and Will can live separately and do as he pleases.
He also included, “Selling your business.” A shot at the Middletons as well?
He sounds like the worst kind elitist, insufferable snob who spends a ton of time in his house because he looks down on everything. He does have a point about them though and it’s that they are boring an unimaginative and nothing about them screams “Yes! these are people I want to talk to/hang out with”
Mel, but aren’t WanK elitist, too? That’s why I find this interesting. One elitist taking on two others, especially when the two are royal. I suspect someone wants to say, “off with his head.” I have to admit that he isn’t writing disinformation.
All the pics with the family in blue, oh Lord, Kaiser, you did prove him right.
Haslam is a try hard Nancy Mitford. He talks bollocks most of the time. and is more indulgently chuckled at than taken seriously by Brits.
Oh how I wish we could get Nancy Mitford’s take on Kate or Will or the Middletons.
Yeah, he definitely doesn’t seem like anyone who would be taken seriously. But it’s always just so satisfying when someone speaks the truth about W&K publicly!
I know what you mean!!
Lol! For whatever it’s worth I hope the Walses manage to keep their marriage together for the sake of their children.
William is suppose to be king but kates childishness is especially grating cause she is with children a lot. The way she snaps at them and belittles them is too much. Like at this year’s flower show. There was one little girl who actually liked Kate!! Kate looked at that child like she was trying to give her a virus. Kate is so disliked maybe she couldn’t imagine one of the kids actually liking her?
I’d say that Kate is the worst kind of snob.The nouveau riche kind who suddenly find themselves with lots of cash and status but forgot where she came from. If only it were made public that Carole masterminded and Uncle Gary bankrolled her pursuit of William and the Crown, she might be brought back down to reality and made to earn her status by working much more to prove that she was worthy of that status.
I just can’t get over how terrible Kate’s outfit is in the top pic. Is she trying to dress as unflatteringly as possible? Does she want to emphasize her oddly-short legs (for someone so tall)? And someone needs to stage an intervention regarding Kate’s addiction to all things doily and lace. It’s out of hand. It’s been out of hand.