We’re still waiting for Duchess Kate to go into labor. The baby is now nearly a week overdue, according to reports. It seems like Kate isn’t interested in being induced just yet, which is fine although I’m now horrified at the thought that this could be strung out over the weekend, or that we could be dealing with royal baby stuff and Met Gala stuff next week. The royal reporters are getting antsy too –there was a kerfuffle yesterday when some paparazzi and royal correspondents noticed what seemed like some Will & Kate staffers and security personnel at the Lindo Wing, but either it was a dry-run in preparation or it was just nothing. So, while we wait(y), let’s chat about some random royal stuff making the rounds.
Today is Will & Kate’s fourth wedding anniversary. To celebrate, The Daily Mail did a hilariously fawning piece about how Kate is now “as grand as any royal-born” with a life that is “now one of endless engagements, royal tours and a constant battle for normality in the face of a constitutional role that makes doing so all but impossible.” *eyeroll*
Many believe Kate will pop today because it is their anniversary. To celebrate, I’m including some photos of the royal wedding, four years ago today!
Kate was spotted yesterday. She was seen behind the wheel of a car, going into Buckingham Palace with Prince George and Maria-the-nanny – you can see a photo here. It’s widely believed that Kate took George for a swim, because he’s apparently a water baby and he loves nothing more than splashing in the BP pool. Some even believe Kate took a swim.
Security. While we wait, security personnel are patrolling and locking down the Lindo Wing in advance.
Breakfast. Yesterday, William and Kate did something nice for the royal fans camped outside St. Mary’s – they sent the fans coffee and croissants. W&K were criticized for that too – why not tea? Why not bangers & mash? Why not an English breakfast? I have no idea. Maybe because croissants are easy to transport? Oh, and the box of croissants was wrapped in a pink ribbon. IS THAT A CLUE?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Woow, I forgot how nice she looked on her wedding day
Yes, she really did look both beautiful and happy, didn’t she? Just as a wedding day should be 🙂
I was just thinking how beautiful she looked. I remember watching the wedding and thinking what a great job she did under tremendous pressure.
She was flawless. The perfect princess looks-wise. I hope the baby is a girl and that she inherits her mother’s hair!
I hated the way she looked, Heavy makeup, stiff hair, didn’t like the dress at all.
She also looked way too thin. I didn’t think she looked at all good and was disappointed when she got out of the car, the top of the dress looked like a dull stiff knockoff of beautiful Grace Kelly’s dress. I think Sarah Burton showed very little in the way of McQueen style, it just looks like a dull knock off of other dresses seen before. After she emerged from the car, I waited until she walked up the aisle and I could see Prince Harry, then I turned over and went back to sleep.
There was ..simply no magic with Kate that day and the fact that She made a beautiful tiara look dull with that smashed down hair was quite surprising.
I did not like anything about her look on her wedding day, everything was just stiff looking.
I love her wedding dress. I was hoping it would bring sleeves back in style a little more.
You and me both. I’m so tired of strapless wedding gowns with cleavage everywhere. Your wedding day is not the time to try to look sexy. Beautiful yes, sexy, no.
As someone who is going to be trying on dresses for her own wedding quite soon, THANK YOU!!! My only caveat beyond wanting lace is some sort of sleeve. Doesn’t matter if it’s cap, 3/4, long, hell, I’ll even take sleeveless or a wide strap, just please give me some sort of coverage! Sorry, I just don’t want my back, shoulders, and chest so exposed. I don’t dress like that in everyday life, why would I want to on my wedding day?! Ugh. Rant over. #giveussleeves
That said, I do remember reading an article shortly after Will and Kate’s wedding about how sleeves were starting to reappear, thanks in part to Kate’s dress. So at least she’s done that for the commoners.
I had totally different plans for what I wanted in a dress until I tried them on. As a small woman with a large chest I honestly couldn’t move as well in the dresses with sleeves and I wanted to dance at my wedding. So maybe don’t jump on the hate train for women who choose strapless and end up with cleavage. I’m busty and wanted to be able to celebrate.
Strapless wedding gowns don’t have to equal sexy and cleavage isn’t a given with every woman in a strapless gown. Each woman tries to pick the gown that flatters her physique, her tastes and the tone of her wedding.
WELL: since upper arms are not most women’s best feature past age 45, why is almost every mother of the bride dress sleeveless, and sold with a boxy, unflattering jacket?! I almost went mad looking for a really attractive mom’s dress.
My daughter (who is 13 so it’s all hypothetical) wants lace sleeves like Kate. She will probably eventually marry in a Catholic Church so I said no strapless which used to annoy her but now she likes the idea of sleeves–short or long. Even if she doesn’t have a church wedding, like others on the thread, I’m not a fan of strapless.
ME TOO!! I wish more people looked at themselves wearing strapless. Some look beautiful, but others would have looked much nicer a bit more covered up.
Signed,
Veteran Wedding Invitee
I love that tiara. It’s small enough to wear around the house or even go grocery shopping.
LoL. If I had that tiara I would totally wear it out grocery shopping.
I have a tiara from a costume party years back and sometimes i wear it at home when i am cleaning my room or hanging out the washing. Princess for a day!
I wear a tiara every year on my birthday!! I got it from the bridal section of Hobby Lobby years ago.
Nooooo! I assumed I was the only person in the world who did that!
We watched the wedding at our office and all the ladies had tiaras on – I felt quite regal in my Dollararama plastic I must say!!
I wonder if the wolfpup could ride on the wiglet wagon, if she wore a tiara?
LAK, LAK, LAK. Everyone knows that tiara might be fine for reading in bed in one’s PJ’s, but it definitely does not look good in the check out lane at the supermarket. It gets lost amidst the magazines and candy and how can one impress the peasants with stones they can hardly see?
Exactly. I admit my taste in tiaras borders on being vulgar. Big and gaudy is how I like them.
MinnFinn, like the Dutch Sapphire Tiara with all the pieces attached?
Nota, I don’t know names of tiaras so I looked it up. My answer is yes and thanks for that little bit of bliss.
Love it. That post is the perfect example of why you are essential around here, LAK.
She looked so lovely that day and I still love her style and am excited to see the arrival of the next little prince… or dare one hope, princess!
It was a lovely dress and she looked radiant on the day as most brides do. It was an event full of promise that sadly went down the loo.
Hopefully the birth goes well and we move on.
That dress was the cheap version of Grace kelly’s wedding dress
Sarah Burton needs to step down, voluntarily or not.
That was a Kate-designed dress and SB was demoted to dressmaker imo. I agree it was a terrible waste of her talent. But in fairness to Sarah, she had recently taken over as the head of McQueen after Lee’s suicide. She couldn’t turn down that commission or risk Kate’s dissatisfaction because Kate as a regular client was too valuable in terms of saving the McQueen brand. So that imo is why there was so little McQueen aesthetic in Kate’s wedding dress.
Agree, though Grace’s was spectacular and she had enough gravitas that the dress didn’t wear her. As for Kate–Cone boobs! The rest of the dress doesn’t even register because of the cone boobs. And the veil looked like a sheer curtain. She stepped out on her wedding day and my first thought was, “That’s it? That’s what we were waiting for?”
I had the exact same reaction. That’s it? My sister and got up at 4am to see THAT!
Her dress wasn’t anything memorable or ground-breaking, unlike Kelly’s. They went cheap on the veil; it had no body and kept clinging to her face like mosquito netting. The fitted bodice wasn’t fit correctly, the poorly-placed lace and darts led to nipplegate speculation, and on an endowed bride that neckline wouldn’t have passed inspection for the CoE rules. I prefer Victoria’s of Sweden!
Check the look on her face in that last photo.
That dress was a version of many dresses worn by royals. How the dress was made was more exciting!
These photos really tone down how she looked. I had a friend of a friend there.
Though these photos bring back great memories for me as it was broadcasted eerywhere in the airport. I was changing planes for my tropical 2nd honeymoon. And I flew home the day Bin Laden was shot. Dreading security would be tight to re enter the States. It wasn’t…
And that baby will come when it does. Happens every day. I assisted delivery 2 yesterday.
The discussion of her dress reminds me of the exhibit where Kate was with the Queen. They looked uncomfortable with each other. Or maybe it was designed that way with creative editing? The Queen seemed to be in a bad mood and didn’t like the wedding gown exhibit at all.
Citresse
The Queen did not look impressed at all. Maybe it was her mood or she really did not approve of the display. Her criticism (i think) was along the way of dark and spooky (for lack of proper terms). And it did to a certain extent.
Or maybe she was still upset she was informed of the engagement just before the press was?
Editing is possible, but they were walking and there didn’t appear to be many film edits. The stream was short, but continuous.
I believe the word HM used was, “Horrid.”
I didn’t get the impression that they were uncomfortable with each other, but the Queen did think that the way it was displayed (with the veil and tiara floating above the gown) was creepy. I think she called it “horrible” or maybe “ghastly” (I agree).
FLORC
The video of the Queen and Kate with the wedding dress also shows how thin Kate was at that time. Wow, really not healthy looking.
I have seen pictures of that exhibit, and you’re right, it was a bit creepy! IIRC, wasn’t it displayed in a dark room, too? I wish I could have seen it in person, though!
Deedee
Unfortunately Grace’s gravitas was sadness.
Maybe Grace’s dress was the inspiration for it, but I don’t see all the comparisons. I also think I’m the only person on the planet who doesn’t think Grace’s wedding dress was the be all and end all of wedding gowns. While I can see the pointy boob critiques, I think overall it was a lovely dress, the back especially.
For a long time I really liked Grace’s dress … and then I saw a picture of the skirt of the dress .
I Was so unimpressed with Kate’s dress when she got out of the car.
I thought, this is just a STIFF looking knockoff of a Grace Kelly’s beautiful dress
Somehow Sarah Burton managed to make expensive lace look CHEAP, hard and scratchy.
I feel like Sarah Burton did not do Kate proud, the dress had no magic,it was just dull, boring.
I also hated Kate’s makeup and hair. The makeup was too heavy and the hair looked stiff.
Yeah I’m really doubting at this point that she’s “overdue.” In all honesty there’s a good chance she hasn’t even reached her due date yet – it’s all based on media speculation after all. But I guess that’s not good for the media’s narrative, is it?
The palace did confirm that she was due in April. Considering there is only 1 day left in April now, I would say it’s safe to say she is in fact over due. I believe 23 April and 25 April were the two dates leaked and that tally’s with what Kate said herself, mid-late April.
It is also entirely possible for second babies to be later then the first as well. I was two weeks early but my younger brother was four days late. I have a friend who was due on 22 April with her second and is still pregnant. Babies are going to come when babies are going to come and all you can do is wait.
My second baby was 5 days overdue (my first was 3 days overdue) but then when he decided to come out, he was out! First pain at 9:43 pm, he was born at 11:24 pm.
Did the palace ever confirm a due date? How do we even know the due date if they didn’t confirm? I don’t mind the baby wait but the constant updating of the State of the Uterus is creeping me out a bit. And I’m a Kate sorta fan.
Yes. The palace is now banking on the short memories and news cycle to claim that a due date was never confirmed.
Nevermind that a press conference was called and various details were confirmed, including a due date of 25 April.
you are again making up lies there was never a due date confirmed at the press conference ,
All the journalist say the same no due date confirmed the ony one was the daily mail and they are called the daily fail by everybody because they make things up to get clicks on their website.
Middleton herself said “mid-to-end of April” during an event in March.
plz
Where do you get your information?
PLZ: Why would I lie about something that came from the Palace?
We all know the DM does click baity stories, as they are currently doing on the due date, but this date wasn’t a DM one.
When did the palace confirm a due date, LAK? All I saw was the Daily Mail story and everyone else is reporting that it was never confirmed, aside from Kate’s “mid to late April” comment.
Smart money is on LAK’s memory.
Lol at notasugar constantly referring to Kate as Middleton. Never mind excuses that lots of media outlets do it – this has more to do with general disrespect/disgust.
Imo
Why laugh? I’ve always thought that was intentionally disrespectful, but that may be how I read it in text format. We shouldn’t go that low with eachother. Then we become the the ones demonstrating disgust to one another instead of thoughtfully discussing the topics. And it takes respect away when you call someone disrespectful and in turn mimic the behavior you are judging. Nothing against you personally. I’m just strongly against commentors attacking commentors. There’s no need and it serves no purpose here except to be childish.
And Kate was known a lot longer as Kate Middleton. A lot of us still refer to her that way simply because it was the norm for so long. When you’ve been known 1 way for a majority of time 1 of 2 things imo need to happen to change that. You need to be known as something else for a greater amount of time. Or you need to do something big that renames you to the public. Countless examples in history proving this both ways.
FLORC
You are fanning the flames. I don’t attack anyone – just point out the things I observe and don’t find likeable. Let’s not be hasty with the condemnation. Yesterday notasugar called someone a misogynist – due only to her dislike of that person’s comment – and not a peep from you.
I respect your respectful approach to the discussions here but trying to call me out for pointing out something I have noticed for months is a bit much. Notasugar refers to Kate as Middleton – not Kate and not Kate Middleton. It is her business but I think it smacks of disrespect and your attributing so much negativity into a lol is a headscratcher to me. My lol implies chagrin not disgust.
A statement was indeed issued confirming an April due date along with the fact the Duchess was suffering from HG again. It was in late Oct.
Imo
Then I misread your comment, but it did seem like a passive attack or a sideways insult if my terms are correct.
To add to Nota’s comments yesterday. I was on briefly only. I didn’t read Nota’s comment or what it was to/about. That’s why you heard no peep from me. It’s worth noting I come here when I have time like we all do. It’s not a priority. Work and my “offline” life is.
And “chagrin” = humiliation (definition reference was needed), but I don’t see how that makes sense here. Unless it was stated to be a Middleton is humilating?
I stand by my comment. to start by laughing at anothers comment seems like an attack. I’ve always felt that way and never understood why others do it. If pointing that out is fanning the flames I guess ok.
FLORC
Chagrin also means disquietude which can stem from disappointment, confusion etc.
Beyond what has already been said it seems pointless to say more because you have a particular pet peeve. Differences make the world go round.
From what I remember, I use a variety. Kate Middleton, KM, Middleton, Will and Kate, Bill and Kate Middleton, W&K
I use B&E but not official York titles (Beatrice of York is too long)
Sophie Wessex but rarely Countess of Wessex, Sophie Rhys-Jones, or Rhys-Jones (hard to type and many people don’t know her maiden name). Short hand. My posts are long enough as it is!
Have the laziest senior royals of the BRF earned disrespect and disgust from many? Obviously, no surprise there if you’ve been reading these threads.
I think misogyny applies to that person’s insistence that a woman must have certain features to be considered attractive. An insidious, belittling, sliding-through-the-side-door, subconscious, pop-culture-driven misogyny. Others do not think that. So be it.
Notasugar
Fair enough about the Middleton stuff. But again, unless the commentor holds women to a different standard of beauty than she does men it is bizarre and a huge leap to say she hates women. She just thinks Beatrice is unattractive because of her facial features, as some do. You can’t put words in her mouth just to make a point. Beauty standards are highly personal and subjective.misogyny has a clear definition. I can think Kate is too thin/frail but that wouldn’t make me a body shamer. It is not formulaic.
The way misogyny manifests is varied, particularly when it is women doing the hating. You think the definition is narrow and doesn’t apply, while I think the hatred of women (by women) is at play here. I think misogyny does apply here, particularly the way it is sneaking in to sideways, and you think it doesn’t. Doesn’t mean I’m wrong, doesn’t mean you are.
ex. I think it is possible Beatrice is attacked more for her work ethic because of her looks. If she was more conventionally “pretty” I think it possible she’d be attacked less. I think Kate Middleton and her pathetic work ethic are tolerated more by some because they think she’s “pretty.” To me, the attacks on Mantell involved misogyny too, the hatred for women some think aren’t conventionally attractive.
You think there is no hatred (or self-hatred) of women involved in that, I think there is. We aren’t going to convince each other either way.
Notasugar
No convincing but exchanging views.
The problem I have with you calling Penelope a misogynyst and saying she hates women is you are basing it on the fact that she thinks Beatrice is unattractive. Not only is that reductive and a generalization but Penelope said she isn’t a misogynyst she just thinks Beatrice is not pretty. Guess what? CB is a gossip site and discussing the look of celebs kind of happens here a lot. And this site has some of the most informed, intellectual feminists you will find anywhere. Are they woman hating misogynysts because they think Leann Rimes is unattractive? Or they hate Kailey Cuoco’s new haircut or think Jennifer Aniston’s looks are boring? Add to that the fact that the commentor said absolutely nothing about hating Beatrice – only her looks. You are the one interpreting that as woman hating.
Of course the criticism of Kate and Beatrice is unfairly skewed because of how they look. But there’s no need to paint everyone with the same brush.
I cringe at Halle Berry’s acting – am I racist? I think Elton John is an egomaniac – am I homophobic?
Ever since William and Kate left Paralympics royal duties early to sneak off on a holiday, France Vacation ,where we only found out about it because Topless and bottomless photos emerged, I stopped believing much of what they say.
The first part of the exchange involved two people insisting they weren’t being superficial by criticizing Beatrice’s looks. They cannot recognize they’re being superficial, do you think they’d recognize they were being something worse? It isn’t likely that a person who has a subconscious misogynistic attitude is going to think themselves a misogynist.
Two degrees, I think that was a wake-up call for a lot of people. It was the first time they were publicly caught in one of their big lies. I saw a lot of people online begin to question their actions after that.
Imo
Differences aside it’s more about intent. And when intent is negative to begin with that’s not a good thing.
To begin a comment with a negative tone and intent to mock is hardly helping the world go round. It is however degrading the quality of humanity. The world will keep spinning without that.
FLORC
I’m curious how a lol can signal the end of civilazation as we know it. The degradation of mankind? You lost my attention there.
I’m over the faux outrage.
“State of the Uterus” OMG LOL….have been chuckling at that one all day
It was a small tiara with a heavy veil which weighed down her face.
OK when the veil worn back.
The sleeves were nice.
I thought her hair looked especially dark that day.
The baby is saying: “Heck NO!” Why do I have to leave, this is a much better place to be and how you seen that show The Royals?!?! I ain’t going to be part of that! I’m staying here!!!!!!”
I saw that show and stopped watching unless bored. The Princess and her black mailng body guard story line was too predictable and just in poor taste.
Now the “cliffhanger” with the King and whodunnit nonsense is equally silly.
It made some very valid points about the importance or lack of a monarchy in modern times. And how their role was earned by those many generations ago, but not by the latest generation of spoiled, entitled behavior.
The question is entitlements in this day and age, from big banks and corporations; to equal gendered paychecks; to racial profiling. Do we start at the top? It all began with the royals…there is just so much uppity!
Wolfpup
I’m afraid no one wants to hear this. After all, tiaras.
Imo, that was quite snarky of you. Are you here all week?
With bluhare. Out of nowhere snarky.
HLN was covering the people camped out in front of the hospital (a total of 2, if the pictures were accurate). Can they sue for mental anguish if the due date was misrepresented?
They would first have to convince they court they were sane enough to suffer mental anguish.
LMAO!
I don’t understand the lying about the due date. At all. If they want privacy, have the kid at Anmer and then pop up on social media with the birth announcement. They are creating the very hysteria they supposedly don’t want to create. Though, I’m wondering why they insist on toying with the press when the press has the means to destroy them.
Don’t celebrities usually fudge in the other direction? They’ll say the baby is due mid-May, when it is really due two weeks earlier. That would have made more sense than this.
Well it makes sense in that W&K are following a pattern of behaviour with the press and public. Coy, non-committal, keep them guessing. They did it with the birth of George and now the same with the second baby.
She should have a secret tunnel dug between KP and the Lindo Wing. #princessprivacy.
Or buy an old VW van with pleb license plates. Get someone from Scotland Yard that doesn’t normally work for the BRF to drive while she hides in the back.
I loved Catherine’s wedding dress, hairstyle and makeup. I thought she looked timeless and elegant.
I agree with the disdain for sleeveless wedding dresses. To me, they all look the same and make some women look awful. I was also a victim of this trend, back in 2004, but in my defence, my wedding was very rushed (due to the mother in law from hell) and I bought the first dress in the store that fit. I didn’t have time to dress hunt nor order a dress I actually liked. I hated every aspect of my wedding and I suppose that might have been a clue as to how it would turn out because ten years later, I am divorced! LOL!
If I ever remarry, I would take done inspiration from Catherine’s approach to her wedding which was to look classy and not date herself by going along with whatever is trendy at that time. She worked with what suited her and she looked incredible!
Now if only she would have put the same effort into her work in the following four years…but I will save that for another thread!
I thought the dress was beautiful as well,that said I think it was a horrific bad omen to spend close to a half million dollars on a dress when your country is struggling which is why a lot of people still refer to her as Kate Middleton,they really don’t give this marriage it’s weight in paper!
DidnT like any of it..makeup too heavy, hair too stiff, tiara worn badly squashed down on a dull hairstyle, dress boring,
Can’t say Kate looked all that great, IMO. Between the weight loss, the makeup, and the hairstyle, I thought she wasn’t at her best that day. I did like the peplum at the back of the dress, but that’s about it.
I thought she looked overly madeup and way too thin.