Something about seeing Prince Harry and Michelle Obama together (again!) gave me flutters. It’s not that I think Harry has a crush on the First Lady or anything, but it feels like they belong together in some way. Harry is arguably the most popular member of the royal family, and Michelle is arguably the most popular member of the first family. So of course Michelle had to stop by Kensington Palace on Tuesday morning to have tea with Harry. Michelle brought Sasha, Malia and Marian Robinson (Michelle’s mom) to the tea as well. Do you think Sasha and Malia have little crushes on Harry too?
The First Lady came to London for a two-day trip to launch the Let Girls Learn initiative, which helps fund girls’ education in developing nations, nations that have historically deprioritized education for girls and women. You can read more about the initiative here. Harry and Michelle spoke about the initiative as well as their ongoing work with wounded warriors and with military families. A palace spokeperson said: “Prince Harry was interested to hear from the First Lady about the Let Girls Learn initiative to further adolescent girls’ education around the world, which is the focus of her visit to the United Kingdom.” The spokesperson also said Harry was “very pleased” to host Michelle, Sasha and Malia for tea. Ten bucks says that Michelle laid some mom-guilt on Harry about finding a nice girlfriend.
On a superficial note – because I know people actually do care about this and because we haven’t covered Michelle’s fashion in a while – Michelle’s paisley dress was Mary Katrantzou Pre-Fall 2015. People seem to love it! I think it’s okay – I don’t really get Michelle’s affection for fuller skirts. If I had her amazing body, I would be wearing pencil skirts all the time.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and @KensingtonRoyal Twitter.
her dresses always make me think of Doll dresses..
Yes, me, too. 🙂 I don’t know why; I’ve never really seen any dolls dressed like that.
I think she looks nice.
FLOTUS can do no wrong in my book.
OTA, but I dislike those heels with that dress. It’s so casual/ garden party and those heels are all business. If any woman can get away with kitten heels, it’s FLOTUS.
Yes, I think you’re right about the heels.
+1
She’s always lovely!
So stylish. But not keen on her meeting someone who is the very opposite of the making it by intelligence and hard work that she advocates. . He’s there because of daddy and granny. Like meeting North West In a few years time. Lots of better people to spend time with. Yes, I know he’s been in the forces and does charity. What the hell else could he do?
At least he does something, unlike his brother. Have you heard of Walking with the Wounded, Invictus Games, and Sentebale? Yes, Harry was handed a life of privilege. He does a lot to use that position to make things better, while his brother runs away and hides while taking all the perks that accident of birth awards him.
Actually, I really liked Sasha Obama’s mint/turquoise dress. http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/06/16/malia-sasha-obama-style-dresses-london-meet-british-prime-minister-picture/
Anyone have the ID on the dress?
I loved that green dress too. Also , the girls’ hair looked lovely. Wish we had pics of them with Harry. Love that Harry and Michelle are both tall.
I ❤ Harry!
Gap has one just like it.
It’s okay… I don’t think the style is particular flattering on her lower half… Like you said, she has an awesome body!
But the initiative sounds absolutely amazing!
Ooh, it’s really pretty. I don’t normally like paisley, but this works. Someone put in extra effort getting dressed – can’t say I blame her.
+1
Great dress, and just because you can pull off pencil, doesn’t mean you have to, full skirts are pretty and feminine, and she looks great.
Agree. She looks lovely.
also, with pencil skirts sometimes sitting and eating – both of which FLOTUS was prepared to be here, going by the fact that there are biscuits on that table – becomes difficult.
But with full skirts? Eat away, and never mind the wee post-sweets bloat!
Gorgeous! Love her dresses.
Thanks for the link to the article Kaiser. I was wondering why Michelle Obama was in the UK to promote girls’ education since the UK doesn’t seem to have a particular problem in this area. Now I know it is a $200 million joint UK-US partnership to support girls’ education in countries affected by conflict.
Interesting though, that she spoke to Harry and not a female member of the royal family.
Both are very involved with the welfare of war vets. Also, both in their separate ways, are all about empowerment and opening up opportunity so will have lots in common.
Yep agreed on the war vets. Harry is also young and popular and seems to take a genuine interest in charity causes. I’m wondering if there are any female members of the BRF who takes up girls’ education/welfare as a pet cause, though they’d probably not attract as much public awareness as Harry (except for Kate, but I doubt this is up her alley).
Well it’s not like they could risk sending Kate. It’s one thing when she looks bored in photo’s with unnamed people working for a charity, but you can’t put her next to Michelle Obama and end up with footage of her intently chewing gum and curling her hair around her fingers with deep focus.
Sophie probably isn’t an important enough royal for a one on one with the First Lady, Camilla while probably the best suited is too controversial, and Anne is…difficult. Harry was likely the best they could do.
Serious question: why is Anne “difficult”?
Anne is very no-nonsense and prefers to just roll up her sleeves and get to work without any publicity. Idle chitchat isn’t her strong suit.
Ah I see. I had initially (and mistakenly) read “difficult” as being hard-to-please or a prima donna, which is not my impression of Anne.
Of the younger members, Beatrice is the one focused on education as her charity endeavour, BUT since she’s not doing official duties, she couldn’t participate here.
Harry seems to be very involved with various teens/childrens’ groups including helping out with Beatrice’s Big Change charity so I guess he was the best person for this meet and greet.
That said, the foreign office has made it known that Harry is the most frequently requested royal after HM for these types of events so there is that…….
Thanks LAK, I didn’t know about the Foreign Office bit. I’m not a fan of the whole idea and institution of a royal family, but Harry’s my favorite out of that bunch so it’s good to see foreign dignitaries recognising the value he brings to the institution.
If there is really such a thing as divine right, emphasis on the divine part, W will resign and Harry will become a king worth the investment by what he returns to the country and world.
* sighs and shuffles off *
Harry has also made public and private statements pushing for women’s causes — he fully believes that these aren’t just ‘women’s issues’ and states men need to step up and be part of the solution. He’s right too.
Every time she comes here, she goes to a school in a tough area and talks to young girls. And afterwards, the girls speak of her like she’s a goddess and bubble over with inspiration. And yesterday, she was completely unafraid to address the Islamophobia the girls she was talking to are facing – and I find it shameful there’s zero chance amost any British politician (or spouse) would give them that. I gotsta say, good initiative and the lady’s got charisma.
(Not the least bit interested in tea with Harry or what she wears, sorry. I’m a gossip fail!)
That’s awesome!
I’ve been impressed with everything she has chosen to support.
off topic, but I think you’re my favorite person on Celebitchy. 🙂
Agree with every word that Sixer just stated above.
@Lucy2 – seriously, when she arrives at a school here, it’s to screams and cheers and little girls losing their shiznit with excitement. You’d think it was a boyband or something.
@Timbuktu – why thank you. I aim to please.
Thanks for your comment! We seem to think along the same lines.
I know this is a gossip site and I do click on stories about people that interest me but I am not the least bit interested in discussing, debating and reading about the fine details of someone’s wardrobe.
now THAT is truly impressive.
I just love Harry ( and not in that way), I just think he is everything work wise for the royals that William should be.
Correct. And it’s very interesting to me that the wife of the US head of state met with Prince Harry, rather than William as the future head of state in the UK. Just would seem to indicate a lack of interest on William’s part, either in the cause or his role in general.
William had better tread carefully – people are getting used to seeing Harry doing things William should be doing.
I need to know about the pale green dress Sasha wore yesterday. There was a photo on the daily mail, and I just loved loved love that dress. Anyone know who makes it?
I’ll add my plea to know the maker of Malia’s red lace dress too! Both dresses are gorgeous.
I love the fact that she wears bright colours and patterns, rather than going for the ‘safe’ option. I wish Duchess Kate would take some tips from her as opposed to sticking to the style of a 60-year-old woman.
Agreed. She doesn’t always get it right, similar to Maxima, but you can’t call either boring.
I think her awesome body is the reason she wears fuller skirts. A properly fitting pencil skirt can look more sexy than professional if you have hips and a butt. For me it’s not really appropriate workplace attire because of that, whereas my less curvy co-workers make them look ultra conservative. I stick to fuller skirts and save anything that leans towards being form-fitting for nights out.
Fuller skirts also offer a greater range of motion and movement and are more comfortable. Getting in and out of some vehicles with a pencil skirt and heels can be difficult, and the bus driver is not going to lower the access step because you can’t lift your leg high enough due to your skirt.
So agree with you- time and place for everything. The dress is lovely and event appropriate. She deserves tons of credit for that- she always wears the right outfit regardless of the occasion. She wants the focus to be on what she’s talking about, not her clothes. We have Celebitchy for that😃!
Agree 100%.
There is a problem sitting down in a knee-length pencil skirt and giving some enterprising photog a shot from your knees to your crotch. That happens with a pencil skirt, because when you sit the fabric stretches tight across your thighs leaving a gap. In a fuller and slightly longer skirt, your knees are covered and nobody gets “the money shot”.
I think she’s a beautiful woman, inside and out, but she often doesn’t know how to dress her body. She has what I think of as “teenage daughter affliction” in dressing – a phenomenon I have noticed in many of my friends with teenaged daughters – she wears silhouettes that are too young for her and look silly on a grown woman. The waist and shoulders of that dress don’t fall where they are supposed to, and it makes it look like she’s trying to squeeze into something too small. Which she is. She looks stunning when she gets it right, but she often wears clothes she likes, and they are pretty, regardless of whether or not they look good on her.
I love that she’s with Harry and supporting education of girls in war-torn countries.
GNAT – and not just war-torn. She’s doing a better job of encouraging British girls into STEM fields and disadvantaged British girls into higher education, and demonstrating the value of education to British girls, far more successfully than any British public figure is currently managing.
That is wonderful, then.
She probably wears fuller skirts because she’s bottom heavy. Republican assholes already call her fat (which makes zero sense since she’s ripped and could easily beat them up) and wearing super form fitting stuff might not be comfortable.
Here we go bringing in the right wing stuff. There is hardly any negativity on this thread yet someone has to throw that out there. No one is shading her at all. Why throw out the Republican vs Democrat stuff?
Really. Because there are no jerks who are Democrats. If you ask me, it’s about equal.
Barring the political opinion, I agree that she likely wears the fuller skirts because she has been criticized for her body. No need to distract from the real issue by having people asking “Why is her butt so big?” or “Is she pregnant?”, though i don’t think her body says either of those things.
Love the pic of the two of them together and love her dress. And, on a more important note, I love the Let Girls Learn initiative!
Michelle Obama seems to be a very warm and caring woman. She has the common touch with people which is lovely to see.
Judging by the tone and comments on UK news sites this visit was not the overwhelming success it may seem to be.
The photos from the school seem to have highlighted how uncapped immigration has changed English society. At the moment immigration is a huge concern for many Europeans and these photos where there seems to be no white students have outraged many. I myself believe every country needs diversity and exposure to other cultures and the talents they bring with them, but I cannot understand how a school in London has so little diversity.
I understand what Mrs Obama was trying to achieve by visiting this particular school, in regards to giving these girls hope and showing them they can be successful even though they are from disadvantaged backgrounds, and also showing how proud they are being british. With the amount of British Muslims going to Syria to fight with ISIS its heartwarming to see this, and I’m sure this was another reason for visiting this school.
However like many other politicians in Europe they don’t seem to understand the concerns many Europeans have towards immigration, and these photos and the lack of diversity in this school does not help allay those concerns.
Its not very politically correct to say these things but Europe feels like a powder keg waiting to go off especially now with the situation in the Mediterranean unfolding each day.
I wish she had picked a school with a little more diversity that include every race and religion. All this has done is give the anti immigration parties more ammunition. It would be like her going to a school in China and not one indigenous Chinese child to be seen.
“The photos from the school seem to have highlighted how uncapped immigration has changed English society.”
Are you kidding me? Your upset that a school in an area that is predominately non-white has a majority non-white number of students? What kind of logic?
” At the moment immigration is a huge concern for many Europeans and these photos where there seems to be no white students have outraged many”
Outraged who? Racists? Because trust and believe if it was a majority white school NO ONE would have said anything.
“I myself believe every country needs diversity and exposure to other cultures and the talents they bring with them, but I cannot understand how a school in London has so little diversity.”
You are basing your backward ideas of diversity on the fact that this ONE school in a PRE-DOMINATELY BAGLADESHI AREA IN LONDON didn’t have many/ any white students?
UGH.
Most of those girls are third, fourth or fifth generation BRITISH. They are BRITISH.
Last time FLOTUS came, she went to a school in a London district with a large black community. The common denominator is not race or religion: it’s economic disadvantage and encouraging girls from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to improve themselves through education.
The immigration dog whistle in the UK is always an excuse for the racists to rush in to the comment section on UK news sites. Never mind that the immigration everybody’s trying to stop is WHITE immigration from Eastern European EU countries. Never mind that, if there’s an excuse for a bit of Muslim bashing.
And, as I said above, I think it’s utterly shameful that it took an American public figure to come and tell BRITISH girls that they shouldn’t be ashamed of their headscarves and should walk tall, with pride in their own achievements.
Well said, Sixer. I was just speechless after reading rosie’s comments and, for a second there, I thought I was on the DM site. I think some are not aware that a big part of the problem is the influx of migrants from EU countries. It’s a similar scenario here, where people from all of the Americas (and even Canada) are coming across our borders because they need jobs. They live in the communities that they can afford and that provide a cultural and linguistic support system.
Yes. Here – it’s the freedom of movement of people between EU countries that’s causing the problem (if you see it as a problem, which I don’t). So here, immigration is tied into whether or not we should be in the EU.
It has NOTHING whatsoever to do with fourth or fifth generation Bangladeshi schoolgirls.
Not that I am party to FLOTUS’s decision-making, but the Bangladeshi community is one of the UK’s economically least successful groups, so I should imagine that is exactly why this particular school was chosen.
Sixer, I personally don’t see migration as a problem. Most people need to work in order to eat/survive. After the US economy tanked in 2008, if unemployed US citizens could have found viable jobs in another country, I’m sure they would have left. Some probably did. But, migration (and immigration) are regularly presented as urgent-need-to-fix economic and social problems by the media and politicians, and I think that happens both here and, from what I’ve read, in Great Britain, too.
I think Michelle had a tiny crush on Harry. Who wouldn’t? I bet he is devilishly charming.
I love the dress on her.
Maybe the recent flood of Prince George pictures is to distract from the fact that people like Michelle Obama take Prince Harry more seriously than William and Kate.
Ha! 🙂
Agreed on the skirt silhouette. It’s actually something I’ve complained about with Kate Duchess of Cambridge and her penchant for flared skirts. I think a straight skirt on both FLOTUS and Kate would flatter their bodies more.
My guess is that she’s wearing the A line dresses to camouflage that she is kind of hippy with a big booty. A straight skirt would emphasize that would probably construed as “too sexy” for a First Lady and mother.
I don’t care for the dress but FLOTUS is EVERYTHING!
Our FLOTUS looks lovely! Harry is as handsome as ever.
I support the Let Girls Learn initiative! What is not to like about global education of women? Every one on this planet should be educated.
WHO RUN THE WORLD?? GIRLS!!!
I bet she doesn’t wear the pencil skirts because they are so uncomfortable. I always hated them. Felt corseted all the time.
I like Michelle. I like her fashions.
To bad he wasn’t the first born, he would make a perfect King.
+1
FLOTUS looks great. I love that she and Harry look like pals and she specially wanted to see him again after his 2013 visit.
(And, I hope she had time to write a note to Kate to tell her how to keep HER skirts from flying up.!)
She made that mistake herself last year, getting off of a plane. There was a fun set of photos of President Obama helping her to wrangle her skirt.
That’s a really simple tea.
ÝES, I was thinking the same….I mean grab some plain dishes, cookies do not look good, the two types they have…one glass of water, no ice….no napkins,,,,even….paper serviettes? The Tea lady in the Government of Jamaica would serve a better tea for the most common of meetings of lowest ranking staff…..Not expecting Prince Harry to serve a fine tea, and I think he is great, just great. and it is refreshing to see something so simple because Harry is not a snob…… but his staff should know better¿ To me, a side table with white cloth, silver tea service, plate of tea sandwiches, small bouquet of flowers, linen napkins, three tiered plated of little cakes, option of tea or coffee, and a ice bucket with mineral water and glasses, set to the side to allow room on the coffee table…
I looked all through the comments but didn’t see “my” comment, so here it is :
Maybe Harry should not to sit with his legs so wide open when he is having tea with FLOTUS at an official visit. Geez, Harry, it’s a bit suggestive. And sit up straight too.
Other than that, I love him.