Trooping of the Colour

I thought that the Princess of Wales looked absolutely fine too. She's always been very thin so I'm guessing it must have been important to avoid loosing weight during her treatment.

Whitewavemark2

I will just like to add my bit as I generally avoid royal threads because of the unpleasantness directed at people about whom we really know very little apart from what the drafted media print.

I would just like to say that I was very pleased to see Catherine, but I thought the poor little soul looked terribly frail. Absolutely everything crossed that her treatment works and she recovers for a long full life. Cancer treatment can as many people can testify be absolutely brutal, so her frailty should be no surprise really.

I agree. I was concerned about how thin she looked prior to her illness but she looked sparrow like the other day. She would have looked even frailer if it wasn’t for the shoulder pads she was wearing.

Who pays for it?

Who pays for what, Bromley ?

That’s why they’re called Landaus ! French for pram!!!!!

Well do it better yourself .

What an utter waste of time and money!

Calling the Princess Of Wales a ‘poor little soul’ is a bit weird.
She has always been, or for a very long time, stick thin presumably from choice to look stylish.
She neither looked any thinner nor frail to me, but as usual like a model and very regal.Her slightly military/ Naval outfit looked amazing.
None of us know how her treatment is going, but she will get the best care there is, and on looks alone, is doing well.

I thought her shoulder blades were noticeable through the carriage window, but perhaps they always look like that.

I know her make up is done immaculately, but I too thought how well she looked, and healthy which was so good to see.

Grandyma

Love these occasions!! So much history and tradition. I’m curious about the style of hat worn by some of the royal ladies. Very large sweeping brims, covering one side of their face. I’m sure Queen Elizabeth insisted on hats which allowed her to be seen by the crowds on both sides of the carriage.

She did, yes, and so did the Queen Mother, but other royal ladies, notably Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, opted for the large brimmed hats that were fashionable in the 1970's and wore them with style while they were fashionable.

They came back into the forefront of fashion when the present King got engaged and on the occasion of his visit to Parliament with his new fiancée her hat blew off, causing the Crown Prince, as he was then, later to remark to the Press,
"Mother has a trick with hat-pins, that she had omitted to mention to Mary! She has rectified her mistake."

Katherine has always been slim and several months of haemotherapy has not helped one bit, that’s understandable. Maybe the cancer had been grumbling along for sometime before it was diagnosed and the reason for her slim build, we all wish her a speedy recovery but it will take time.

She has always been very athletic

Primrose53 I thought the 'blown away' remark seemed totally at odds with the rest of the message, it really stood out to me as if it had been added in to make it seem more colloquial. Can't imagine Kate saying that.

I thought exactly the same knspol about the 'blown away' remark.

Oreo

Calling the Princess Of Wales a ‘poor little soul’ is a bit weird.
She has always been, or for a very long time, stick thin presumably from choice to look stylish.
She neither looked any thinner nor frail to me, but as usual like a model and very regal.Her slightly military/ Naval outfit looked amazing.
None of us know how her treatment is going, but she will get the best care there is, and on looks alone, is doing well.

I think she comes from a family of slim (thin) women.

I have read all of the messages posted and was, frankly, reduced to tears by some of them which were so unkind. If you don't have something nice to say, type nothing.

Because I don't have a television, I was hoping to be uplifted by verbal eulogies of The Trooping. Some were lovely but others were horrid.

Sorry - just my viewpoint. Disagree if you wish - that is what debate is all about (despite it being cancelled and unfashionable)!

Urmstongran

It’s Trooping the Colour.
No ‘of’.

But nobody seems to care any more.

I care, for one.

So do I, but then I care about saying 'sat, instead of 'sitting', stood' instead of standing', the list is endless!! Granddaughter, a Physiotherapist, appears mystified by the difference! Think it must be me that's out on a limb!

I’m on that same limb.

We know someone who was in the RAF, when he joined up he wanted to be in the musical corps. On joining up at around 17, and not long after he joined up, he went to the Gulf War and served over there, he would never tell his mother what he had witnessed.....he has travelled the world and played at some amazing events, including Trooping the Colour, Remembrance Day, and he loved every minute of it.
He retired from the RAF at around 48 years old, (hopefully with a good pension!) and has since earned his living playing Sax (mainly jazz) in different bands, he also teaches if the opportunity comes up.

Cute little Louie. 🥰. Poor little chap. Not his bag at all 😊

I git a bit upset seeing the photo they put out on Father’s Day of William and the children. Lovely as the picture was seeing him with the children but without Kate made me feel afraid of them losing her. What I did find, seeing them on Saturday, was that there was no sadness in their eyes. People can smile as much as they like but if something is really worrying them there is a sadness in the eyes that they can’t hide. I realised that when I had my photo taken at my daughter’s graduation at a time when my marriage was falling apart. I was smiling but my eyes weren’t.

I hadn't thought of the Father's Day photo in that way, Maybee70, but you're right.

Yes Maybee70 - I too felt sad when I saw that picture. The three of them without Catherine. It was very poignant, under the circumstances…..