Royal Thread the Second- Tiaras Optional! ?

Alegrias If all you can find to criticise about Kate is that she's thin and wears - in your opinion - too much makeup, well I reckon she's doing ok. Her Mum and siblings are also thin. Who can help genetics?

And on the day she rushed to the car - good grief! What a terrible crime. Cut her some slack.... maybe she had her period or a headache.

No, I'm sorry Sparklefizz, we pay for her to be a Princess and be nice to people. Especially people who hang around for hours waiting to see her.

(Where is that sarcasm emoji when you need one?)

As did Meg who told her husband she wanted to kill herself,
put on her make up, went to Albert Hall, cried when the lights were down then when lights went up greeted guests, make up
perfect, big, big, big smile , what a fantastic princess

Catherine is only a duchess, not a princess Alegrias. She will have to wait for Wills to be Prince of Wales first.

(I know I’m being pedantic. I think she is entitled to be called Princess William, if she chooses, am sure Annie will confirm).

So your main complaint is that she didn't stop and speak to people on that day, not that she is thin and uses makeup? You just added in those complaints eh?

It's still not much of a "crime" compared to she who cannot be named who was also being financially supported. I think you're clutching at straws.

Come on Alegrias, at least she had the decency to be thin and wearing too much makeup. I bet that she was wearing ridiculous heels too.
Heaven knows. she could have shown up being all overweight and nondescript

You're right Fanny, that's not what we pay our Princesses Duchesses for. There would have been insurrection on the streets of Dundee. Instead of just disappointment.

Whenever anyone mentions a Duchess all I can think of is the one in Alice who hands her the baby that turns into a pig. It's just so not Kate.

Children who marry into the royal family will never be a royal princess / Prince .

Kate will be Catherine Princess of Wales not princess Catherine, as Diana was not princess Diana.

Princess Michael of Kent can’t be a duchess because her husband isn’t a duke, the duke of Kent’s wife is Katharine
Duchess of Kent

I thought Duke/Duchess was a higher title than mere Prince/Princess. Happy to be corrected if I’m wrong. I’ll have to check in later though as I’m off to the opticians now.

A Prince can make a belted knight, a marquess, Duke and aa' that....

I’m sure that you are right maddy re Prince v Duke.
DH recently told me that, I didn’t believe him (if you knew him, you’d understand why) and I looked it up.

Don’t think so Maddy Meg isn’t higher than Anne .

Annie I looked it up in relation to the DoE
It’s a strange one isn’t it

And someone who is a Duchess due to marriage could never be higher than a blood Princess.

This sort of talk about some people being "higher" than other people is ridiculous.

Ilovecheese

This sort of talk about some people being "higher" than other people is ridiculous.

Agreed. Does that make the rest of us lower than all of them?

Imagine growing up thinking you were "higher" than other people.

hmmm....

It's no different to the church - or the military - or business - just ranks within an organisation.

You're not born an Archbishop, or a Brigadier, or a CEO. You get there on your merits.

Royal Princes, however....

Oh for heavens' sake .... I'm off. Life's too short for all this haggling over thinness and makeup and titles .......

The title Arch Bishop is higher than Dean or Canon

Do you suppose they all curtsey to the one whose higher than them when they meet up? I feel sorry for the one at the bottom of the pecking order she must be worn out.

Titles are so unfair, when I joined the Young Wives my friend couldn’t because she wasn’t a Mrs.

Sparklefizz

Oh for heavens' sake .... I'm off. Life's too short for all this haggling over thinness and makeup and titles .......

I think that make- up may have legs (as it were)
Both Catherine and Pippa are a bit heavy handed with the kohl
Anyway, bye for now Sparklefizz
Did anyone else look at the Vogue article that Lucca posted a link to?
That passed a good fifteen minutes…
My favourite dress was Elliannes and Luccas least favourite
Mind you, I still love Diana’s, hers is the most iconic

trisher

Do you suppose they all curtsey to the one whose higher than them when they meet up? I feel sorry for the one at the bottom of the pecking order she must be worn out.