The Prince and Princess of Wales were in Scotland over the weekend. They’re actually called the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay in Scotland, although very few outlets have actually called them by their Scottish titles. According to the Telegraph, the Wales/Rothesay family arrived in Balmoral for “the bank holiday,” meaning (I assume) that they arrived at Balmoral last Friday? Then on Sunday, the whole family was photographed in a car, on their way to church. William drove, with Kate riding shotgun, and all three kids in back. Something horrible to note: no one in the car wore a crossbody seatbelt, not even the kids in the back. William and Kate should absolutely wear their seatbelts in the front too.
Meanwhile, the big story of the Rothesays’ first post-Wimbledon public appearance is that Kate has dramatically lightened her hair this summer. We haven’t seen her since July 13, the Wimbledon men’s final, and in that time, she’s been trying a summery blonde shade. I would actually consider this more of a honey/caramel shade, similar to Jennifer Aniston’s long-time “bronde” color. It really does nothing for her?? And it also highlights that even with all of these vacations and “summers off,” Kate should look well-rested and tan. Instead, she looks pale, drawn and completely exhausted.
👑 The Princess appears to be having a blonde moment – and we can expect the rest of the world to follow suit
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Catherine Princess of Wales, Princess Charlotte Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Royals attending a service at Crathie Kirk Featuring: Princess Charlotte and Prince George Where: Crathie Kirk, United Kingdom When: 24 Aug 2025 Credit: Paul Campbell/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Peg looking his usual uptight self in the company of his beloved sickly wife. Are seatbelts the law in the UK? If they are they should all be buckled up!
Yes seatbelts are the law and have been for very many years – for ALL passengers front and back.
The Lazies showing they’re above the law. And it’s a private estate – but taxpayer funded. So they are a law unto themselves.
The laws of the UK’s roads don’t apply if you’re driving on private land. If their trip didn’t take them onto any public roads they won’t have broken any laws.
Still reckless behaviour and far from setting a good example of course.
Maybe, but no one is exempt from the laws of physics.
But I don’t expect these two idiots to realize that.
People can have accidents on private land, so it’s really dumb not to wear your seat belts at all times in a moving vehicle. One of our big bosses at work emphasized this by telling a story of getting out of her vehicle to open a gate, get back in & not bother with her seat belt because she was just going through the gate only to then stop again & close the gate behind her, and somehow or other something happened where she ended up running into the gatepost–without her seatbelt–& getting a hard smack from the steering wheel.
If the car is moving, wearing your seatbelt. Wear it on a bus, too. And in taxis. Everywhere.
Considering all the discourse over Diana not wearing a seatbelt, you’d think they’d wear one. Some say the seat belt might have been broken which is why she wasn’t wearing one but either way wouldn’t that make you want to be more careful with your own family. But maybe they drive really slow so the photographers can get their shot idk?
Diana always buckled up according to her sisters. The seat belts malfunction. Another one of the odd events that night like flashing lights at the driver.
I actually gasped when I read no seat belts given how Diana died. William really is a piece of shit.
She doesn’t seem to have a thing in her head.. She truly looks blank and clueless.
She’s had vacuous eyes for years, not a thing in her head whatsoever.
The only time you can get away with not wearing a seatbelt in the UK is if you are driving on a private road/land. Presumably the road from Balmoral Castle to Crathie Kirk is a private one. Nevertheless it’s not a good look. I’m reminded of all those who said Princess Diana may have survived that car crash in Paris if she had been wearing a seatbelt.
It’s just making me think. It’s interesting how it must be a private road and land then. And yet they clearly invited photographers to that private road to specifically get pics of them driving to church. To prove they’re actually in Balmoral and to throw some scraps to the papers.
I’m wondering if that’s a wig.
Either way, that colour does nothing for her. Is there no one around that can give her proper hair advice?
As usual that’s all they can write a story about ,her hair .
Dear lord what an uninteresting life that woman has .
It brings clicks to them. Chuck must be pissed. Lazy kicks him off the front page again!
They know that even a simple thing like changing your hair color will get the press’ attention. It makes me feel like they wanted the focus on that on not on the fact that they’ve spent another lavish holiday on a yacht, missed VJ Day, and have bought themselves yet another lavish “forever” home.
I think after charlotte was born her hair was shoulder length and a shade of brown darker and dare i say that that was the best her hair has ever looked.
I agree with that, and as a bonus it was her style, not one borrowed from a barbie’s head. That blonde is awful, and someone should tell the Telegraph that not a soul is going to follow that “trend”
I didn’t recall what she looked like then, so I Googled it. Genuinely lovely! The darker color and looser, more natural style (no ringlets, no fluffiness!) really suited her. And I realize she actually IS younger in those photos, but it’s kind of amazing how much more youthful she looked before she started trying to copy Meghan. I would never call her stylish — she’s always been too bland for that — but she at least looked like, you know, HERSELF.
I agree @Chloe – when she was pregnant with Charlotte her hair was a lot shorter and looked so much better.
Kate just cannot get anything right! Her natural hair color is actually gorgeous, IMO, and goes perfectly with her coloring. I have no idea why she would want to attempt to go blonde at this point in her life. Most women know what works for them by her age, and her hair was one of her best features and biggest assets. But then she started wearing the ridiculous extensions and lightening it, and this color just doesn’t look right on her. Pippa kept her brunette hair and looks so much better. SMH
@Miranda, totally agree that she looked a lot younger before she started copying Meghan— but it also could be that the stress of the entire situation with the Sussexes (created by her and William) took such a toll on her that it accelerated the aging process.
As someoe with her coloring, I agree that color washes her out and does nothing for her. Better would be an ashy (not brassy) brown with caramel highlights. And don’t go too crazy on the highlights, either, as a colorist once tried to do to me.
That said, I agree with the point that it could be the sunlight on her (dyed brown) hair.
Yeah, the sun through the window is adding to the ‘blonde’ of it all, but it does look lighter nonetheless. I think if you’re going to lighten your hair maybe you should also lighten your makeup? She’s using the same heavy hand & same dark colors for her brows & eyes & it just doesn’t go with that color. Actually, nothing goes with that color, it doesn’t look the least bit natural.
And that ‘we can expect the rest of the world to follow suit’ from the Telegraph almost reads as a threat. You WILL follow the princess! Duchess. Whatever.
@KRISTA
“ Either way, that colour does nothing for her. Is there no one around that can give her proper hair advice?”
Maybe that’s why her former longtime personal assistant/stylist Natasha Archer was secretly following Meghan’s friend and hair colourist Kadi of Highbrow Hippie? Pity Natasha’s cyber stalking on KKKate’s behalf didn’t yield any useful tips because her hair still doesn’t look good same as Joe following Meghan’s facialist and makeup artist has made no difference on her sagging skin and dragged on eyeliner. More proof that following them all was just to keep tabs on Meghan. KKKate needs a new wiglet vendor.
I agree, the color does not suit her. Neither did the previous (Wimbledon) shade. Even that was too light/yellow for her. Now it makes her skin look pale/red and her brows too dark for the hair. And it’s still a shapeless mass around her.
@Chloe is right, when her younger children were born, she had shorter, darker hair and looked her best ever. She eased up on the ringlets, too back then.
She was also a healthier weight, and of course seemed much happier.
Its probably a wig. She’s been wearing wigs for at least two years now
It’s because the colour is so bad that I don’t think it’s a wig. As a wig wearer I don’t come across wig shades like that ever.
I don’t know that it’s a full wig but it could be a lighter hair piece to match a lighter root color that was done? There’s no way to really know until she’s actually out in public and not being seen through a car window. I don’t really care about the color change so much as laughing at the BM having to make a huge story out of Kate getting her hair lightened. The evolution of the Princess of Wale’s “regal blondette” is strait-up sending me. I wish she would go full on super blonde with a shorter style. Now that would be something.
Kate’s natural chocolate brown hair looked gorgeous on her; she should have left it alone. I’m also a brunette and would look absolutely ridiculous if I tried to go blonde — it just wouldn’t suit me at all and would clash terribly with my coloring.
I have a cousin with the same beautiful natural brown as Kate, and she also insists on getting blonde highlights. It looks so bad, plus it dries her hair out so much (and is expensive to keep up — cost is not an issue for Kate, obviously, but upkeep is a lot for a normal person)
@MJM, I lol’d at your comment, but you’re right! I don’t even think wigs would be available in such a brassy color. Who would want to pay to look like that?
@Jais, “regal blondette” is up there with “festive glance,” lol. Ridiculous
Right, Lorelei? Regal blondette is just taking me right out. They’ve gotta be taking the piste.
The color actually makes her look worse and I didn’t think that was possible… the not using seatbelts for your children is just plain negligent parenting those early years can be destroyed by one mishap what a poor example of a parent.
I agree – that color is awful on her – it doesn’t suit her skin tone. All the ‘sunkissed’ headlines just emphasize the number of holidays they have had.
Yes. It’s a wig. Wonder why she’s lost her hair.
Not getting enough nutrition is my first thought.
I think @Eliza’s comment was a pointed dig at the commenters here who don’t believe that Kate had cancer.
Years ago I wanted to go blonde, and my colorist very bluntly told me I do not have the complexion for blonde. I appreciated her honesty. Kate should have someone willing to be that honest with her.
” And it also highlights that even with all of these vacations and “summers off,” Kate should look well-rested and tan. Instead, she looks pale, drawn and completely exhausted.”
I was thinking the same thing, she looks completely worn out. And not in a, the kids were up late and I didn’t get a good night’s sleep sort of way. Add in this picture to the description last week of that lady saying that she always looks ” completely shattered “, the question really has to become why do you look so drawn out all the time?
They are so secretive, that I can’t even begin to imagine what it is that they’re hiding, but they’re hiding something. They look exhausted, the kids look exhausted, and I don’t get it because they have not by any real measure worked in 4 months. If you want to consider them working at all this year. So it’s really odd to me that she looks like a covid era nurse, who has worked 10 straight 14 hour shifts.
I mean, she just had cancer. It would make a lot of sense she would look exhausted and drawn out. The treatment for that kills you while it saves your life.
Just had?
She looked so much refreshed in the Paris Match photos of their skiing holiday.
She finished chemotherapy a year ago and has been cancer free for 8 months – by her own admission.
As @Becks said, she told us a year ago, in that soft-focus video, that she had finished chemo and was “cancer-free”. Since January, when she told us she was in remission, she’s gone skiing twice and taken two other international vacations. Will you still be using the cancer/chemo card ten years from now?
@me at home: she is going to use the fake cancer card for the rest of her cancer free life.
Even in some of the photos during one of the rare official events Kate attended last year (I think it was trooping of the colours 2024) Kate looked much better and healthier than in this photo. But it could be that it is just the professional make up Kate uses on official engagements. This photo just might be how Kate really looks like.
She had cancer? Oh, bless you’re heart.
You must be loving fake news! I love people still believe the cancer story
I think she would look much better if she lightened up on the make up. Had her eyebrows lightened so the more or less match the hair, and brown mascara and lay of the black eye liner.
Fake cancer is so exhausting! One must keep up pretenses, which can be difficult when photographed skiing and such. Poor frail girl, but nothing a 7th vacation this year won’t help.
Even if one believes she had cancer, she’s been “cancer free” since January (or even before). She hasn’t had to “work,” keep house, and a majority of the time the kids were in school. She hasn’t “just” had anything except constant vacations.
She never had cancer. Even if you believe she did, she said so herself that she was cancer free a year ago.
She didn’t get her tan then on the Greek yacht.
Didn’t one of the candid photos the paps got of her during the second (I think it was the second one, I can’t keep track of their vacations anymore) luxury ski holiday show her without any extensions? I’m too lazy to Google, but IIRC, there was a photo of her inside the lodge/restaurant standing next to a table where William was seated, with only her natural hair (possibly in a ponytail?), and it looked SO much better than her hair looks when she actually gets all done up and prepared to be photographed.
Someone needs to tell her that less is more. SMH
Dee – I agree. They all look worn out and/or very tense. They’re on vacation yet again and only heading to church so that makes me wonder what was going on (before they got into the car? On the ride over?) for them all to look this way.
Yeah, every face in that car says, “there was some serious screaming before we left the house this morning.”
What a miserable existence. Will and Kate brought this on themselves, but I feel really bad for the kids.
@molly, that’s what I was thinking when I saw the pictures on Sunday. I no longer believe the two will divorce, but he doesn’t like that woman, so I can only imagine how toxic that household must be. I feel for all involved.
There is a really good picture of George and Louis in the car, it’s in the people magazine article, that looks like George has said something to Louis and Louis looks very uncomfortable!
It looks like she’s been massively photoshopped? I don’t want to talk about another woman’s looks but, without going into details, her jawline and mouth area look “refreshed.” Maybe the photoshopper worked on her skin tone as well? And that could be sunlight on her hair?
Look at George, bags under his eyes with 12! This poor boy always looks so miserable.
I had dark circles under my eyes when I was eight. Brought on by chronic allergies, they only worsened when I reached puberty because they were also hereditary. I started wearing glasses in my 20s just to hide them. Eventually I had surgery to remove them but I still remember how it felt to be a quiet kid with permanently puffy eyes.
For her sake, I hope it’s a wig.
To be fair, i do think that it might just be the light reflecting on the window
I wondered if it was the lighting at first too. It’ll be interesting to see if it stays this light for appearances in a few weeks or whenever they start back up. The Trump visit looms.
That’s not sunlight. Her hair is thoroughly blonde and has the straw texture of having been stripped.
Yeah, it’s likely been lightened but it’s weird bc coming back from vacation with blonder hair is just a reminder that you’ve been on vacation for a few months. Is that really the visual reminder they want to give right now? Hey just back from a very long vacay, got a new house and a new hair color!
A wig would make sense if she still hasn’t replaced Natasha Archer and/or whoever does her hair and wiglets isn’t available or is on their own vacation. Pop on a full wig and you’re ready to go.
Daily mail again with the hyperboles. The whole world will not follow. In fact, i would rather go bald than dye my hair blonde.
I think that was the Telegraph heading but yeah I was like huh? The world is going to follow suit and dye their hair blonde just like Kate….mmm, I highly doubt it, just saying.
😂 The Lazy one ain’t natural.
Of course it begs the question who is Lazy copy-keening?
Can’t be Gabriella Windsor – her hair’s a lighter shade of blonde. This is so much more…dull. Did Pippa go blonde? Rose?
Peter Phillips new fiancee?
Heather I think you are on to something. All those photos of Peter Phillips fiancee were in the media of late.
Of course she is back to being Diana ..dream on . Diana wasn’t a brain dead, soulless and self absorbed mannequin..she should start to imitate Diana in depth , not just focus on hair , badly copied clothes and flashing that ring
@Chloe, same. I snorted at that line.
It’s amazing— somehow Kate never looks exhausted or stressed or “drawn” when she’s at Wimbledon! She’s always glowing and looks healthy as a damn horse when she’s doing exactly what she wants to be doing. She’s so transparent.
I take it that the new mistress has honey blonde hair??
🎯
Would love to see Willy get a redhead girlfriend. With freckles.
Bluesky – 💯! She must be entering a new stalking and copykeening era.
My first thought was about who she was cosplaying.
ditto
Of course she is back to being Diana ..dream on . Diana wasn’t a brain dead, soulless and self absorbed mannequin..she should start to imitate Diana in depth , not just focus on hair , badly copied clothes and flashing that ring
Years ago there was that photo of William leaving a members only club in London with a blonde in the car. It was a late at night photo.
Wasn’t she Russian? A Russian NGO lawyer honeypot? But her shade of blonde is like Gabriella or the Norwegian crown princess Mette-Marit (who has that awful Draco son).
I dunno how the rats tried to explain her presence – think she was married too. Maybe a friends with benefits situation.
I don’t think there was ever confirmation of who it was. It was just a weird moment when William’s whereabouts were actually photographed and discussed.
It’s hilarious that you guys think someone wants to f*ck William.
@Gabby 😂😂
It’s only for the bragging rights because of his status as future king; if he was a regular dude, no woman would look twice at him. (Especially with the ghastly, scraggly little beard)
Lololololol
sleeping with a “power” person is a heady aphrodisiac .. right?
I don’t think blonde suits her at all, but this shade in particular looks DREADFUL. Did she find a vintage boxed dye when she was searching through the storehouses? Because that color is pure, cheap ’80s.
It also looks like a box dye job because it’s all one solid colour. It could do with some lowlights to break it up. Did her colourist quit too?
I use box dye myself but wouldn’t if I was as rich as she is.
Sun-In and sunlight….and you’ll be blonder tonight
If this is indeed the work of a colorist, they need to be fired, stat. I use boxed color in between trips to the salon (I feel like I’m constantly having to cover up the gray roots! 😣), and as you said, @NormalIslander, it works fine if you’re going for a solid color. I get L’Oreal’s “Medium Brown” for my roots, and it works really well and saves me $— but I would not dare to try highlights/lowlights, etc. on my own at home.
I know that Kate used to go to a salon in London, but who knows what she’s been doing for the past year or so. I cannot imagine that a professional gave her those preposterous extensions that went halfway down her back, or that ‘Farrah Fawcett-in-the-80’s’ look she sported for a while.
Oh, @Betsy: the memories! I used that stuff all the time! With about the same results as Kate. 😬🤣
Blonde definitely isn’t her colour. It just drains the life out of her face, and makes her look even more calculating and cold.
Fits the personality then! She’s a worthy successor to the Rottweiler.
I think she would look much better if she lightened up on the make up. Had her eyebrows lightened so the more or less match the hair, and brown mascara and lay of the black eye liner.
It is a lot darker and more yellow of a blonde than Meredith Blake, but it is giving Meredith Blake (derogatory). If only William was as handsome and charismatic as a youngish Dennis Quaid.
You’re right! She IS giving Meredith Blake vibes, lol
They should all be wearing seat belts. I’m wondering if it’s a private road and not subject to road laws, though that doesn’t seem right?
Either way, the kids should wear them no matter what. If they get used to not wearing them, they’ll forget in other places which is incredibly dangerous.
They don’t care. Simple as that.
Derangers have been trying to say it is a private road so it does not matter. But the laws of physics won’t care if sudden braking happens. People can get injured at low speed accidents. These nitwits don’t care I guess.
Darwinism in action. They’re tempting the karmic universe with so many preventable accidents.
My car wouldn’t stop beeping if I tried to drive without seatbelt.
Probably a private road but nonetheless, it’s a bad look. Many said that Princess Diana may have survived that car crash in Paris if she had been wearing a seatbelt.
That “hair” looks like the color of straw. Not a compliment to her natural coloring. If she was a decent person, I wouldn’t be saying this about her, but….
Apparently the explanation for not wearing seat belts is that in the event of attack the secret service will be able to get them out of the car more quickly. Sounds a pretty thin excuse to me. Not least because if they were being attacked by….someone, it’d likely be safer to stay in the car.
Its hard to tell the exact color through the window, but it does look lighter. it will be obvious if its a wig if its darker at her next appearance. her blush looks out of control in the one picture.
Anyway I mentioned last week or the week before that they often use Balmoral as stopping off points which is what I think happened here – they were on vacation again somewhere else and swung through Scotland on their way back to Windsor. camilla had an event on Friday or saturday so wonder if she was trying to avoid them lmao.
How easy it would have been for them to pop down to Edinburgh for a VJ80 commemoration. So tone-deaf – I spent a month on a Greek yacht and dyeing my hair blonde instead of shaking hands with war vets! Look at me!
Did they count this appearance as “work”?
Yes, going to church for these people is ‘work’. 🙄
You would think kate would avoid the chav look of very dark brows and yellow hair.
It’s a wig or she’s Princess Chav! Fits Willy’s Aston Villa obsession. She’s turning into a WAG.
@Blogger, knowing these two, this short drive to church absolutely counted as “work” for both of them. It’s farcical at this point
Do the kids normally come on this church drive? I do not remember seeing them in the car before. Could be they are once again being dragged along as a distraction.
The children looked grim. Kate is so vapid she lightens her hair for attention. It’s not a good look. Will looks annoyed.
The only one smiling at the photos is Kate…she knows how to play the game…everyone else seemed tensed. And William is his usual rigid self.
Wiglet probably smiles insanely constantly when out and about. I guess her kids are accustomed to the weird .
The pics of the kids actually really bothered me last night when I saw them. I get that it must be a shock to pull out of the privacy of balmoral and have press waiting to take your photo but George and Charlotte are old enough to be prepped for that (or they should be sadly it’s their future). But they both looked upset. Whatever is going on behind the doors with this family it’s absolutely grim.
IMO Kate looked like she was on a Xanax. I can’t help but wonder what it took to get them all in the car together.
Yeah my thought was that she looks heavily medicated here.
Honestly this is one of the easier public events for the children – they don’t have to talk to anyone, they are only glimpsed for a few minutes, and then they go to church and that’s pretty much the end of the photographs. I would think the Christmas walk would be a lot more stressful but they seem to handle that pretty well.
I just think things are really tense in that family overall.
I can’t lie, I’d be taking Xanax too if I had to be married to William. That’s one thing I can’t fault her for!
Poor George does *not* look happy.
She certainly looks spaced-out to me.
This is happy families damage control photo o p . See we are staying at Balmoral
How the f is this absurd, stupid, insipid, crazy privileged, rich beyond measure, how is she still being seen like this? It’s so disgusting. Honestly. I don’t care about her any more.. She’s abused people. She can dor6, why would I care? She’s threatened people’s lives. I don’t care
Awesome! A stupid fake face pos awful person. So what?
Not to be a Debbie Downer but your mother died because she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. JHC dude.
A lot more reasons. The allegedly d r i n k who was allowed to take the wheel. The paparazzi in wait like vultures chasing the car. And taking pictures of the wounded Diana not letting medical help get through. And Diana s ambulance driver bypassing a hospital 10 minutes away. Lots of factors led to Diana dying. And Diana always buckled up. Harry said he would always wonder what happened in that tunnel.
I’ve read several serious pieces saying the driver wasn’t drunk, although the tabloids sure want you to think that. A sober or near-sober driver would shift more blame onto the paparazzi, the ambulance driver, and the lack of seatbelts. The tabloids really don’t want you to think too much about the paparazzi’s role.
The seat belt was conveniently broken that day, there was also a mysterious bright flash of light at the tunnel, and a white (fiat?) car that was said to have crashed into them, the cctv cameras along the route they took, were also conveniently not working, and with a hospital being only 10 minutes away, they took her to another that was farther away. The ambulance even parked at the side of the road for 40 minutes there. I remember watching the news at the time in the US and the reporters were perplexed as to why they did that.
Her body was swiftly cremated within hours, and I believe the man that was driving the mysterious white fiat was shot, execution style, in the back of his head in his apartment. Also Harry said that he asked to see the pictures that the paparazzi took of his mother at the crash site, and he said she looked “surprisingly alert” and awake and conscious in the pictures. I believe he didn’t want to say it directly, but was insinuating in his book that she was not as injured as they claimed her to be. I believe he said that she only had a broken arm.
Once last thing, she also wrote a letter to her lawyer stating that she felt they were going to murder her and make it look like a car accident. I believe they succeeded.
King Tampon offed Di.
They lied about the seat belt and the drunk driver.
It’s really obscene that she isn’t wearing a proper seatbelt, nor is she making the kids wear theirs. I don’t care if they’re on a “private” road; they should have trained the children to always wear them no matter what.
SMH at these two, as usual. Stepping on their own rakes and causing their own problems with their stupidity.
Keen does not want to work but can get attention by lightening her hair color
This is “work” for her. How many front pages and column inches she gets because of her new appearance.
No wonder why she’s shattered all the time 😂 so much hard work primping up one’s self for the cameras!
Gives the “I’m ready for my shot now Mr De Mille” vibes.
The Fail called her the Peroxide Princess on the caption of the photo, then apparently got a call from KP and the caption changed within hours. The caption change has been immortalized on X. No one going to forget Kate was called a bottle blonde by the Fail.
😂 The Lazy-Arsed Peroxide Princess.
What a vacuous queen she’ll make.
Peroxide Princess got them that annoyed? To demand a headline change. Lordy. They’re so quick to have a story fixed when it pertains to Kate’s appearance. Whether it’s extensions, Botox or peroxide. But correct a crying story? Never.
Seriously? This woman is so fragile that she had to have a “peroxide princess” caption removed?
JFC, she’s not going to be able to cope if the press ever decides to really take the gloves off and tell some truths w/r/t W&K. But I guess her “cancer” could always make a convenient reappearance if the press ever starts to turn on her 🙄
The only way to lighten’s one hair is thru peroxide so what’s the big deal? Even at a salon, they are likely using some form of peroxide. But I’m guessing the phrase peroxide princess was not considered respectful enough.
The color is straight peroxide blonde. I can’t believe they got a call from KP about it!
Is she going to try to channel Marilyn again
You could be Garbo or even Marlene
You could be Marilyn
Or you could forget…
-Stevie Nicks
omg, I don’t know too many people who know that song! “looooooooose yourself in a silvery dress for you feel you must do what you feel you do best…..”
I never had cause to connect it to the royals but that’s a whole vibe with Kate’s crazy situation.
We can give Kate ‘Cathouse Blues’ for her South Korean State Visit/red outfit performance 😂
With Kate wearing her hair longer and longer lately…I was thinking how the Mail et al must grit their teeth that they can’t slam Meghan for continuing to wear her hair long and loose into her forties…which I’m sure they’d love to do to otherwise, with a complete list of reasons as to why it is not “royal.” It seems like one of the things they would go crazy about if they could,but instead they praise Kate, pretend the new color is “sun-kissed” and natural and have orgasms over her hair no matter what length or color she appears in…
Over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed all of the kids look grim when in the car with their parents. In every photo, they’re unsmiling and unhappy. I don’t know. They do seem happy and relaxed in staged photos outside, but the car thing is noticeable. W&K usually look rather grim, so no surprise there.
George always looks miserable, stressed out, and, frankly, unwell, to me. Not anything like a well-adjusted child with two adoring, completely dedicated parents, who is supposedly spending his days frolicking outside in his private woods like a modern day, middle-class Christopher Robin. Charlotte has looked from the beginning to be carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, and, well, I’m not going to say anything about Louis because I think the press is setting him up to be their future feeding trough.
William is always trying to sell us that he’s some amazingly dutiful father who can’t possibly work more because he’s desperately trying to make sure his kids don’t end up as traumatized as he is, but these photo shoots tell a completely different story to me.
Why does a family this well-off, pampered, and vacationed always look so stressed out and frazzled? Why do the children of a man so completely dedicated to fatherhood always look like hostages when they are around him? What is the real reason William doesn’t want live-in servants? And why exactly is he moving his family to the end of a long, private road where no one will know what goes on in his home?
Poor George always looks unhappy when he is with his parents.There is a hidden story about the reason which will do doubt be uncovered in years to come.Just like Charles’s unhappy childhood.
The Wales family appearance yesterday did what KP wanted which was to get the press off their backs for the time being.
The car photos are part of the deal with the media. I am assuming that is why they aren’t wearing seatbelts, to give better photos. When I saw the photos, I also thought the whole family looks exhausted, which is weird, they have been on vacation for months now.
I’m more fixated on her uneven eye shadow which makes her look like she’s got a black eye.
The makeup is atrocious. They all look miserable. The vacations did not go well?
Well, I’ve read a long time ago that every time a royal woman does something on her face (botox, plastic surgery etc.),she also makes something drastically to her hair as to make people talking about that and not the job done on her face. Kate’s face is so much changed in recent years that you can hardly associate her with her younger self…I think she has something done recently…and the change of her hair colour is an effort to pull focus from it.
Yes and I believe someone caught the likely work in the comments above.
When Kate got bangs it was for the same reason.
In a few weeks, she’s going to have the world’s eyes on her with pictures of Trump and Melania and maybe even Ivanka. I’d be very surprised if she didn’t have some type of refreshing done. Maybe that’s why they couldn’t go to VJ Day. I actually can’t tell anything from these car photos per se and I’m bad at spotting anything. I’m just saying that it would be more odd if she doesn’t get some kind of refreshing before the state visit.
@Jais: if she deigns to show up. Something tells me she’ll conveniently be having a “bad day” when Trump is there.
Its probably a wig… But honestly.. Women can change their hair color. I’ve been every color of the rainbow😆. Do what you want with your own hair.
Hideous color, but it’s probably mostly fake hair anyway. For someone who has been on perma-vacation, she looks haggard. The fake smile has a real “proof of life” vibe about it.
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So I suppose Wiglet Gopher left with Natasha!? How is that not a bigger story!? I can’t believe they would allow that hair colour without lightening Kate’s eyebrows too!
I hope they didn’t sign an NDA, that’s a book I would read!
She’s sad.. That’s all there is. She looks deluded or drugged. Weird wigs, odd facial expressions. I feel for her kids
“Weird wigs, odd facial expressions.”
A better tended version of her wonky string of 2023 appearances but still too off kilter to be ‘normal’. I’d love to know what’s really going on.
Hair aside, this reads like a PR stunt. We know Bulliam isn’t particularly religious.
“Ooops, Meghan’s show comes out Thursday, our move and megayacht aren’t landing well, and we haven’t been seen since Wimbledon! Quick let’s call the paps and have them waiting on the way to church, that’s a low-effort appearance.”
Charlotte’s highlights from years ago looked better than whatever Kate is doing to hers.
That color looks TERRIBLE on her. Not everyone can pull off blonde hair.
I had a casual friend (not a good friend, just someone in my house at school) who went freakishly grey / white when we were all still teenagers. This was boarding school, not even uni, yet. She now dyes it blonde and has done for many years. Decades. It’s easier to cover up white / grey with blonde dye than with a dye that matches your original brunette colour. You see it a lot if you’re a SAHM, like me. A lot of ladies you see on the high street, whom you know casually, to smile when you pass, how are you, great, all well, take care, …..a lot of those ladies get lighter and lighter with the years. It’s like a uniform. Bit of Botox, generic expensive jewellery. Like flipping through a catalogue.
As I continue to get more grey roots, I know how difficult it is to keep a brunette look that isn’t too monotone. It takes a good colorist and one who won’t pressure you to go more and more blonde. Bc yeah it’s absolutely easier to go that way. Meghan’s colorist highbrow hippie is very good with helping brunettes stay brunette as they age from what I’ve seen of her client work on insta.
It’s definitely easier to blend grays with blonde hair and that also makes it easier if you eventually choose to go full gray or white but aren’t ready for it at 50 or whatever age.
Kate has had a lot of grays for years (there was that picture of her roots maybe…..12 years ago? I think either shortly after or before George was born?) and that hasn’t stopped her brown hair, but maybe she’s trying to change it up to make it easier.
Of all people she has the time, money and access to get her roots updated every few weeks.
The blonde colour doesn’t even match her skin colouring. A competent hairdresser knows colours much better than this.
It’s like she picked up a box of clairol without looking.
As a brunette who started getting grays when I was like 23– yeah, it is a huge PITA to maintain brown hair when you have a lot of gray. It’s incredibly expensive and time-consuming. And Becks is right — there were a bunch of articles about it when Kate made her first appearance after George’s birth (I think?) with visible gray roots; the press pounced.
But Kate has the resources to have her color done by a professional without even having to leave her home, so there is no excuse for this brassy nonsense on the Princess of Wales fgs. It looks like straw, all dried out and fried.
She really must not have much of a relationship with her sister anymore, because I’d think that’s the one person who could be honest with her about things like this?
Carole has figured it out, though. Maybe Carole should have a talk with her daughter. Ash-brown (not brassy brown), and go a few shades lighter than her natural brown because that’s more flattering to aging skin. Then highlights to prevent that solid-color helmet look and create movement, with flattering highlights especially around the face. I just described what I do at home (after different colorists tried to turn me blond) because I have Kate’s coloring. Yes, you can hide incoming greys with blond hair, but you can also hide them with highlights. Kate has all the time and money in the world, so I’m not convinced she’s going blond to save either time or money. This color, which in the 1990s we used to call “popcorn butter,” is terrible for her (and for me). If it’s not a wig and all a big mistake, and if it’s not the lighting, then maybe Carole can lend Kate her colorist.
Gonna nope on the hair ….
While I agree that this whole head color
is not simply from sitting in the sun, neither Kate nor William do much of anything to protect themselves or the children from sun damage. Kate is an obvious sun worshipper. And they didn’t just go on the yacht – they were likely in the south of France, etc. Plus, they have the use of at least 4 private pools – Anmer, Windsor, Pippa, Carole’s… that’s just a start.
Wait til that peroxide hits the pool! There’s going to be some interesting color there!
Off to get my hair colored blonde because the very stylish and oh-so-influential Princess Kate just appeared in public with “regal blondette” hair!
Fortunately, I had a similar hat in the ’80s, so that’s taken care of.
The Telegraph editor who composed that tweet must have been drunk.
Maybe the hair is attached to the hat… ?
The way this comment made me cackle out loud, LOL.
Daily Mail is throwing shade at family by throwing in a yacht reference, Honestly, they all look sad and tired; so much must be going on that’s secret.
EXCLUSIVE Regally Blonde! How Kate’s summer ‘spent in the sun on yacht’ has transformed her look
Does the hair dyeing count as one or more event? To be fair, every time she goes out, no matter how rarely, she will still be rocking the new hair color, which automatically is a plus one event, no matter whatever else she is doing (or not).
“The Princess appears to be having a blonde moment – and we can expect the rest of the world to follow suit” Follow suit? No thanks.
More Sun-In than sun-kissed.
So the palace will call up the rota and object to a caption dubbing Kate the “peroxide princess,” but didn’t raise hell when Meghan and Archie were being subjected to horrific racism in the newspapers???
That completely tracks.
No. Just no. That is not a wig; most people do not willingly seek out that unnatural-looking color. Not extensions (see wig above-same explanation.) And definitely not from sun exposure nor is it sunlight streaming in the window (AS IF!) My hair color is exactly the same as Kate’s and while it does lighten from prolonged sun exposure (emphasis on prolonged), it generally lightens to a mix of blond, red and lighter brown, and no matter what, the base color underneath remains the darker brunette. That tragic hair is chemically dyed and it is not a color found in nature. Nature pun intended 😂
It’s the exact same with me. I had blond hair as a baby/toddler but with two brunette parents – one with jet black hair – it was always going to darken. At the end of the summer I have subtle highlights of blonde and auburn over my brown hair, and it’s not monotone. My skin tone and eye color are also very similar to Kate’s. That color would not look good on me.
I’m lucky that so far I don’t have much gray. I didn’t realize that it was easier to dye hair blonde than brown. Looks like I’ll be going blonder as I get older! But I’ll be careful to pick more of an ash blond.
So awful it’s shocking. Makes her look even worse, more wan, etc. But what is also awful and shocking is little George’s face. Those kids make me sad. Dying one’s hair to distract from something else is what I first thought of, but I couldn’t find any differences in her face.
The color is not awful, but what she really needs is a fresh haircut. I actually think she’d feel better!
Shoulder length (so she can still put it back. If she ever wears a tiara again, she can go back to wiglets for the event.
Honest question: what is Kate smiling at? Nobody in the car appears to be talking, and William isn’t smiling (so it’s not like they saw something in the road that was amusing)?
I think she was smiling at the paps/reporters. Or then the meds she might be on leave her in a state where she smiles at everything, in the “lights are on, but nobody’s home” way.
I’ve said it before and nothing’s changed. She doesn’t have people around her who genuinely care about her. Someone to tell her that girl – that is not your colour. Tbh it looks like a wig.