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To my eye George and Louis are very Middleton looking and Charlotte is very Windsor.
I think George and Charlotte are very Windsor and Louis is very Middleton. Don't see much Spencer in any of the three kids.
Loved the doc with William and the footballers re mental health.
I agree about the lack of Spencer which is surprising given how much William looks like Diana.
Candid wedding photos shared by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex; celebrating their first anniversary:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxotAfKgy1o/
One of my favorites is of Meghan; signing the register, after the ceremony.
Kate back at Chelsea today chatting and playing with school children who were visiting the garden:
Kate gets her hands dirty!
Love her outfit - casual but just a little dressy. I'm assuming the Queen will be visiting the garden later when she attends the show - will Kate change outfits or stay as she is!?
Yes, I think William has his mother's smile and his mother's nose. Harry has more of Diana's charm and down-to-earth personality.
See I think William interacts with people very much like Diana did, and Harry is all his father. Charles, when not feeling the restrictions of his role, is quite the prankster and has a mischievous side. He is also really good with kids. Look at the photos of Charles with Camilla’s granddaughter at William and Kate’s wedding and the photo of him with Louis. It is a side that is not often shown, but it is there. I think, like in skating, the press tends to buttonhole people into a type so Charles was cast as the boring cold one next to Diana’s warmth and excitement when I suspect both their personalities were/are much more complex. Harry also looks a lot like Charles.
I agree that William takes after Diana in the way hes able to sit down with a group of people and talk about touchy subjects. I agree that Harry has the Windsor sense of humor but also is more closed off about his feelings in public.
I am going to go with change. Kate is fairly traditional so I am sure she will have a dress on when the Queen arrives.
I suspect the Queen will love the garden. She is such an outdoors sort of person I think she will appreciate all the thought and planning that went into it. I think the Queen must just be so proud of William and Kate! They are doing a fabulous job both with their family and representing the Crown and Britain. Kate really was the perfect choice - William must also be thrilled.
I completely disagree that Harry is more closed off in public about his feelings. Have you seen Harry on walkabouts and during Invictus Games events? He engages with people in a very gregarious way. I find William engaging, and he has a dry sense of humor, but there's also a reserve and a holding back, which is in keeping not only with William's personality, but also with the role he will one day inherit. Harry is much more personable and outgoing than William, IMO.
OTOH, both William and Harry are reserved and closed off toward most of the media! They are both determined to preserve and protect their families' privacy. This is part of the reason that royal journalists have recently been so upset with Harry. When he was single, he hung out on tour a lot with the accompanying media entourage. Now that Harry is married, he is understandably less open and accessible, especially due to the way his wife has been OTT criticized, scrutinized and unfairly characterized from the very beginning of their relationship.
Hmm. I see it differently. Extroverted people can actually be very emotionally closed off. I've seen William speak publicly about a lot of pain he's gone through in his life in a very specific, deep way. Harry is more extroverted but actually more distant. I noticed that in the documentary William and Harry did about Diana -- Harry talked more about the external events, William more about the pain of seeing his parents' marriage fall apart and losing his mother.
Can I just say how much I love Sophie? She is always elegant, smiling, and working hard no matter what the event. I hope that she and Meghan get to know each other. Sophie is a great role model for someone in Meghan position, and I feel like Sophie would be a really stellar mentor to help Meghan learn the ropes of how to forge your own place in The Firm.
Meghan is apparently doing just fine. She's very bright, accomplished, capable, and she knows her own mind, which is essential. She's not a push-over, nor an ingenue. Meghan was a very successful actor and a wealthy entrepreneur and humanitarian who moved in VIP, high society circles before she ever met Harry. In fact, that's one of the key factors in how they happened to meet.
Just wow to your whole post. Defensive much? But to this part in particular, you have no idea how Meghan is doing, furthermore neither do any of us. I was merely suggesting that Sophie, who is in the exact position Meghan is in, just a generation earlier, who is only 16 years older, who also had a career prior to marriage, who also had her children in her late thirties, and who, most importantly has overcome some obstacles to become a valuable part of the royal firm and a close friend of the Queen (no, Meghan is not close to the Queen. She may well be in the future, but she has been in the family a year and has probably seen the Queen less than a dozen times. No one is close that quickly.) Could be a great help to Meghan who is still navigating in unknown waters.
I like Kate a lot but I do think that she's an example of someone who decided she was going to be 100% royal down to adopting a rather posh, old-fashioned aristocratic accent. But that's the position she married into. Meghan isn't in that position and doesn't have to do all the things Kate does.
ITA. I didn't care for the trim of the dress either, and I didn't like the dress at all. It seemed matronly, like someone the queens age would wear. And I didn't like the shoes either. But I have never seen any bad press on what she wears. I always read complimentary comments even when the dresses are matronly.I thought Kate looked great in her culottes & blouse at the garden, the dress not so much. The print was ok but the trim made it look like a dress for a little girl.
ITA. I didn't care for the trim of the dress either, and I didn't like the dress at all. It seemed matronly, like someone the queens age would wear. And I didn't like the shoes either. But I have never seen any bad press on what she wears. I always read complimentary comments even when the dresses are matronly.
ETA:
It's interesting that you think Meghan is "navigating in unknown waters." I'd say by this point, the Duchess of Sussex knows a heck of a lot more than we ever will about the inner-workings of the royal family. In addition, if QE-II didn't think highly of Meghan, she would never have had Meghan accompany her on the rare overnight train trip to Cheshire a few weeks after the royal wedding last May. Nor would the Queen have allowed Meghan to join Harry and the royal family for Christmas at Sandringham in 2017, when Meghan was engaged but not yet married to Harry. Nor would the Queen have handed over prestigious patronages to the Duchess of Sussex, and appointed her Vice-President of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.