One of the biggest British stories of Remembrance Sunday was about who did NOT show up: Queen Elizabeth II. This was supposed to be her big comeback appearance following weeks of secretive illness, the event which she did not want to miss. The Queen pulled out of the Remembrance Sunday appearance because of a sprained back. Many people do not believe that excuse, and I’m not sure about any of it. As someone who recently had a glute/lower back strain, I think it’s perfectly possible that a 95-year-old woman has a similar injury, likely sustained doing something mundane, like bending over to feed the dogs or just walking. That being said, I still feel strongly that one of the biggest issues is with her balance.
So in the Queen’s absence, the Windsors just got on with it. Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince William and Prince Edward were all on the ground at the Cenotaph, and they did the business of saluting and wreath-laying. The women were on the balconies, and Kate, Camilla and Sophie were grouped together on one balcony. None of them seemed happy about it.
Kate usually brings out her keenest military cosplay for Remembrance Sunday and she’s looked like Sgt. Pepper a few times. This year’s coatdress was a repeat – she wore this Alexander McQueen at the 2018 Remembrance Sunday event too. The bucket hat isn’t great, but at least she wore her hair back. I still remember that time she wore her sausage curls loose and she twirled them throughout the Remembrance event.
Anyway, this definitely had a “preview of coming attractions” feel to it. As in, this is what it’s going to be when King Charles is in charge.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
Ages her 15 years. She looks like the CoW’s contemporary. Brows are terrible. Hat clearly inspired by Meghan.
Whatever, though. She didn’t gurn or look visibly bored like she did at the Royal Albert Hall. Brownie points for this woman-child.
My first thought after seeing the pictures was that Chris Jackson was on vacation. As far as the Queen I think she has Dementia.
Isn’t Chris Jackson married to her stylist? Still, it pleases me that his best photos are of the sister-in-law she threw under several buses.
Her face seems to be falling apart. Over the last few years she has aged terribly for someone still relatively young. Not my favourite outfit or hat as she loves cosplaying the military but good luck to her. Looks like she’s going to need it with all the rumours swirling around right now.
I clicked on the close up photos of her, and holy smokes–her neck!! I never realized how lined and creased it is. Her aging has gone into overdrive these last couple of years.
When you are skinny like her, the wrinkles and lines have no place to hide. My mom always said slow and steady weight gain is the key to aging well.
Jezz, Zsa Zsa Gabor once famously said, “There comes a time when a woman has to choose between her a$$ and her face.” We know what KKKhate chose.
KKKhate looks “hard”. Between the dark, too thick brows, to the troweled on makeup, to just the set of her face (RBF?), she just looks hard and older than 40.
When you have a cheating husband, it ages you. All three women look like old crows.
Being on a constant starvation diet, smoking and over-exercising does that to you. And stress…her loveless marriage is in the toilet and she may never get the brass ring of PoW or QC.
Not being smart or mean she looks 50 years old. Karma and evil ages you for real
What has happened to her eyebrows??!!
Didn’t Meghan wear a very similar hat one Remembrance Sunday?
Why the WAAC/Florence Nightingale cosplay?
So many questions…
Yeah she did. On the year Keena first debuted this outfit. The hat itself is gorgeous but it just doesn’t not go with this outfit.
A few weeks ago, around the James Bond premiere there was an article in DM about Meghan’s Hollywood brows ( looked the same to me). Then a praising article about Kate’s brows a few days later. I think the color of the brow pencil changes. Sometimes it a waxy and other times it’s powdery. Whatever the case, Kate needs a MUÀ
M did wear a similar hat on Remembrance Sunday, but Kate has worn this hat before on the balcony as well (or a very similar one). I think she has two hats like this, one black and one more of a navy, and neither one really suits her.
The hat looks like a lampshade on her and with the faux military Florence nightingale cosplay she looks ridiculous. The other royal women don’t wear this faux military gear because it’s foolish of them to do so.
Well…they do at ceremonies. They all do (except Cam and Sophiesta). Except for Pedo (and Harry), no one else has seen combat. Charles may’ve “served”, but you know damned well he was given ALL sorts of “considerations” as PoW.
I can explain the Florence Nightingale cosplay along with the other two military-style get-ups she’s worn to this event. It reflects some much publicised Middleton family history showing two women who served in the military during the two world wars. One was a military nurse in WW1 and the second was her Middleton grandmother who was a radio operator and codebreaker in the ATS during WW2 . The DM ran several stories about these women as if their work somehow reflected well on Kate. She even wore her grandmother’s Codebreaker poppy badge one year.
Kate has never had a meaningful job and dressing up to look like her hard working forebears is an insult to them.
I think Kate has worn that hat before, when she was pregnant with Louis. Maybe it was at an ANZAC ceremony.
sorry, I just checked. At a Commonwealth day service.
I was only coming to say….holy brows, woman. A whole lotta yikes up there on that balcony.
She had a phase with thick caterpillar brows before, and quickly ended it when she got too many negative comments online. Make me curious why she’d think to repeat it unless she really is trying to look like Meghan?
Then there’s her dark under eye liner – an unpleasant throw back to her newlywed days. It’s another phase that she stopped after too many people said it ages her and looks terrible.
Now for her lips; looks so obvious that she’s had recent plumper in the upper lip. So heavy it makes her look like a different person. The amount of work done in her face isn’t slowing the aging process though, and the combination of fillers, smoking, and her genetic aging material (see her mother for reference) are wreaking havoc on her 65- year old appearance.
Hat inspired by Meghan? You must be young! This is Diana completely.
Two birds with one stone, I’m sure Kate figures.
She’s trying to be Diana but seems more like Melania in her white pith helmet.
Why is Sophie wearing a hemorrhoid cushion on her head?
Poor thing has resting bitch face. No wonder she opens her mouth so wide when she smiles—hides the sags and wrinkles. (I resemble all these statements but at least did not throw my sister-in-law under a bus.)
@Monica I loled and am loving both the self-awareness and clarification! And I’m sure you look 100% better than Keen for not being a horrible person.
People keep talking about how rude it is to point out Kate’s aging but there are so many older women who are downright gorgeous and, being older, have far more aging than her and yet still retain their beauty. Jamie Lee Curtis is one, Jane Birkin is another. These are people whose loving personalities show in their faces. Kate’s bitter face is the face she deserves.
So apparently (I saw on Twitter) that Prince Harry’s Invictus games was mentioned at the festival of remembrance. That must have stuck in W’s throat.
That last photo…. “i thought I just saw Meghan… just making sure”
The son of a soldier who has lost limbs in combat mentioned how Invictus, among other organisations, has helped them as a family – and there was an incredible round of spontaneous applause.
We all know we’ve lost the best, most sincere royal family member. I hope Wm chokes on it.
The soldier appeared in a televised construction project for veterans along with H & W. The clip below includes the soldier and provides a short but telling comparison of H & W’ s personalities.
https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/video/its-not-something-theyre-likely-to-have-to-do-at-home-but-news-footage/490085542
@Cate: You are so right. Harry was the best of them, and that is why they are all still crying about his departure going on 2 years later. The worst exes ever!
@Sure: That video is so telling. Those brothers are chalk and cheese. If this is how William is in front of the camera, I shudder to think what he’s like in private. That’s why Kate is ageing like a banana.
I’m really happy Harry and Meghan left that place.
Hmmm…very interesting!
@Cate Thank you for sharing this video.
It speaks volumes and explains why Harry and Meghan are free spirits, big hearts and well suited! I hope that their children inherit these traits.
Yes. They may try to erase Harry and his family but his legacy lives on.
Sure, OMG that clip!!!
Quite like this look tbh. Wouldn’t it have been amazing if Kate had actually served during her 20s and was qualified to wear a real uniform?
If I was her, I think I’d feel a bit of a fraud dressing up in a pretend uniform at an event as poignant and as sacred as this. But maybe that’s just me.
To be fair, I don’t think she’s specifically trying to look like she’s in uniform so much as she loves the militaristic style. Stick a thousand buttons and some epaulets on just about anything and she’ll wear it, not just for this event. I think she tries to project a prestige and seriousness through her clothes that she is not capable of projecting as a person, which is why it always feels like she’s in costume.
However, your larger point stands – as far as I’m aware, Kate’s twenties are basically a lost decade of waiting by the phone, without even a hobby or volunteering, anything. Heck, she barely does any public service now that it’s part of her job, it certainly wouldn’t be in her character to serve her country.
I was considering whether this is just her personal style, or not. She does seem to love military styles, which were a thing for a while, at least a decade ago.
However, she always chooses to wear them to events like this. Events which are about actual military service. I don’t think that’s an accident. As it’s often pointed out on here, Kate loves theme dressing.
Most of the time, her theme dressing and tributes don’t bother me. I think she’s taken that from the Queen, who tends to do the same, in terms of colours she chooses to wear, or significant pieces of jewellery. At an event like this though, it boarders on appropriation, and I’m less comfortable with it.
@jay the militaristic uniform only began the year Meghan came on to scene. Before that it was completely different.
She most likely donned it to make Meghan look girlish and childish and immature, but then Meghan came out looking elegant and mature and Kate ended up looking like a toy soldier
Kate has very child like thinking when it comes to her theme dressing. She makes it too obvious every time. But she stepped up the faux soldier look when Meghan was going to start attending Remembrance Day events.
Seeing as she never served and could have just makes it more offensive. And yes the royals down below are playing dress up too, but the women in the balconies have not done that, except for Kate.
I like the coat and hat separately, but they don’t go well together.
Trying to think of a bat that would go well with this dress? It’s quite a hard one to find a matching hat for, I think. I do prefer this hat to the last one she wore with it, though.
I think maybe a pillbox fascinator?
@ShazBot pillbox was my first thought too.
I recall when she first wore this faux military cosplay that it was offensive for her to play at military when she could have served herself in her 20s but chose not to. At the time there were stans trying to defend the theme dressing, but again none of the other royal women do this. They wear black dresses without childishly playing pretend solider on Remembrance Day of all days.
Actually Kate serving in her 20’s would have been an inspired move! She’s athletic so that part would be easy. She would have scored so many royal brownie points and good pr. But she would never have been away from Burger King lest his interest turn to another.
I guess photographer Chris Jackson wasn’t available to provide freshly photoshopped pics of Kate.
@Aurora
It’s like a reverse Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Yeah, the Queen is really not doing well if she could not make it to this event – we’ve been hearing for the past few weeks how this event was THE event that she was going to attend and she was resting just so she could attend this one.
I am not sure about the back story – of course she could have sprained her back, but is that what’s been going on for the past three weeks? I do think that whatever it is, it involves her walking/standing, maybe she can’t stand for extended periods or is even in a wheelchair at home, so she couldn’t attend the ceremony because she stands the whole time.
Kate looked fine, I don’t like big hats like that on her but she keeps trying to make them work. I wonder if she looked mad bc she was told to wear a repeat and she had a new military cosplay dress all ready to go (because I think wearing a new dress while the Queen is so sick would have looked bad.)
She’s on the front page of all the tabloids and they did not choose a flattering picture…..
@becks1 every time the queen hasn’t been well or been out of sight for a while the tabloids always conveniently have headlines out about how she’s seen driving around Windsor, but here’s the thing, they’ve been using the same shutterstock photo for the past five/six years, so how bad is it?
I think she’s getting close. I was trying to explain to my friend why I thought this and all I could come up with is that 1) the palace generally wouldn’t have said anything at all about her health unless it’s pretty bad and 2) whatever they actually do say to the public, we should assume it’s 10x worse.
@Becks: The Palace is not being upfront about the Queen’s situation. If she has a back sprain, the doctors would have told the courtiers if she would be able to make Sunday. Instead the Palace put out a statement saying she wasn’t going out on Saturday but definitely will be there on Sunday. They knew she wasn’t going to be there on Sunday when they put out that press release. And the press have just repeated what they’ve been told. So much for reporting without fear or favour.
The palace shouldn’t have made a big deal about the queen absolutely, definitely, 100 % attending Rememberance Day. Now they look bad for all of the hype and people are concerned about the queen who is in “good spirits.” Their PR is so bad. They should have just played everything by ear, made no guarantees, and if the queen couldn’t show up, then people would just think that she was resting still. Now most people are pretty much on death watch.
I really believe The Queen has dementia. In it’s early stages dementia can be very difficult. There can be good days as well as bad days. So maybe they didn’t know what type of day she would have until the morning of Remembrance Day.
@JT exactly. The emphasis on her attending this event has made her absence all the more obvious and even for me, I went from “she’s old and tired and probably needs help walking” to checking twitter for an announcement from the palace.
I’m starting to view TQ’s surprise visit to Sandringham as a farewell visit. We’ve had the Sandringham Summit and this was the Sandringham Sayonara.
Sandringham is also the castle where all the last 2 monarchs (her father & grandfather) died so maybe she wants to end her days there as well?
Remember that event where she grabbed the sword to cut the cake and was kinda waving it around? that looked very impulsive and potential early dementia to me. Definitely not the queen’s go-to move.
I think the Queen has just reached the point of needing assisted living, with full-time care and nursing. People can linger in this state for many years. My only concern is what if she slips into a coma and becomes brain dead. Such patients can live a long time, too.
Would ANYONE dare to pull the plug? (Except BoJo who trip on it and disconnect it accidentally.)
It’s a complete and utter tissue of lies. If TQ is not on her deathbed, she has already died and the Men in Grey didn’t want it to coincide with Remembrance Sunday.
Sure, that is EXACTLY what I thought about the Sandringham trip. It was her last one.
I NEVER feel sorry for this woman because obviously, but one story this weekend made me feel some sympathy for her only b/c of how hard it would be for ANY human, no matter how wealthy or racist or terrible they are. The headline was “Queen will be without four loyal staff members this Christmas as they leave Sandringham in ‘the end of an era’.”
The first Xmas w/out Philip would’ve been hard enough on its own, & her health is failing just like anyone else her age. But adding the fact that every headline about the BRF has been so negative for years now must have taken a toll: Andrew, trial now looming, Sussexit, Charles’s pay for play scandal, public proof that KP was in cahoots w/the DM, the obvious fact that William is incapable of filling this role, & the expectation that she’ll be all back to normal walking around & smiling for 3 days for the Jubilee. They’ve put so much emphasis on how important & special this stupid Jubilee is, how long they’ve been planning it, how much time & money has been put into it. There’s SO much pressure on her to be there & appear fine. Plus the pandemic hit everyone in the world so hard. It’s all too much & I think if I was her age I’d be feeling like “I give up.”
Anyway the article said “a loyal housekeeper recently retired after 32 years, and in the past two months three other members of staff, all friends, have quit. A source said: ‘There’s been an exodus. There’s an end-of-an-era feeling after the Duke passed away. The household will have to fill those roles quickly as Christmas is the busiest time of year at Sandringham.’
It sounds like many of her friends, if she even had any “friends” who weren’t also employees, have died off, and the ones who haven’t are done. All of the jewels and gold pianos in the world can’t make her immune to sadness.
I think she is a despicable person & always has been. She’s racist & hypocritical & arrogant & I could go on and on. She should’ve stepped back years ago, & the way she treated Harry is inexcusable, full stop. This is the only time I’ve felt even a shred of sorrow for her, & it still doesn’t come close to how sorry I feel for Harry.
I did wonder why the tabs chose an unflattering photo of her. Things are about to get rough.
and on some of the front pages its HUGE! I saw one where it took up half the front page. It definitely is not a good sign for the Cambridges.
Who wants popcorn?
Yeah, they could’ve gone for other serious photos that weren’t quite as bad as the ones they chose to blow up on the front page. I think it’s interesting they targeted Kate instead of having Charles, William, etc. too. You’d think the moment of Charles looking emotional would’ve been the perfect front page photo. Instead, we get Kate looking awful and making some unflattering expressions.
I think they were going for a kate looking emotional and sad photo, but it looked like a weird grimace instead.
Bed rest at 95 does more damage than good.
@Merricat, true. At that age, if you’re confined to bed, there’s a very good chance you won’t be getting out of it until they cart you off to the mortuary.
Merricat, too true. IMO she’s gradually shutting down. Idk how much longer she’ll hold on, but my gut feeling says not long.
All the tabloids had a really bad photo of Kate wearing a grimace and no photoshop in sight. It was weird that most of them didn’t include Charles or anyone else. He is the next monarch. And if they were going for the most photogenic family member left, that bad photo really showed they don’t have any options left.
I don’t even think they were going for ‘photogenic royal’ angle because there were other photos of her that weren’t *quite* as unflattering and awkward as the ones they chose.
Over the past few weeks the press has been using very unflattering photos of Kate and I think it’s because she’s the next one to be served up, or rather, they are going start covering her the way they used to. I’m expecting more Duchess Doolittle articles and Lazy Katy headlines. They might ease into them as I don’t expect the press to go ham as they did with Meg, but I think Kate is in for a rough ride over the next year. Buttons has not been able to fulfill the Meghan 2.0 saga, she hasn’t stepped up her work schedule, and I still think she’s about to get the blame for Sussexit.
Granted this is a solemn event, I thought all 3 women looked very pained and dour yesterday. I think two things are going on right now. The gravity of the Queen’s situation has hit them. Camilla is to become an unpopular Queen Consort, Kate is to become the Princess of Wales and Sophie will be neglected by King Charles. Another is the MoS court case which didn’t show the family in a good light.
Not only didn’t show the family in a good light, but has the potential to spill more dirty secrets about them if it does go to trial. I don’t think they ever wanted that, but I think they’ve lost control of the situation. Tje Fail is like the Toxic Tom of the UK media, complex off the rails and doesn’t keep when to stop.
@Izzy: Either the Royal Family is just stupid or blinded by racism and hatred towards Meghan that they didn’t see it wasn’t good idea to give permission to Knauf to testify for the MoS.
There was definitely something off with them, especially Kate.
The Queen’s absence hits home for both her and Camilla. NOW they must WORK
That’s because the position she’s been vying for all her life is finally encroaching and she doesn’t know how to handle the pressure of it all. She (along with her husband) thought Harry & Meghan would be there to take all the flack, whilst they could have an easy P/POW, King/QC reign. Now that they’re not here and currently thriving in America, she can’t cope. And don’t even mention the workload that’s about to be put on her. It will send her over the edge! 🍿
@The Duchess I said something similar when the Keens went on vacation as the queen was in the hospital. They will embiggen themselves til kingdom come when everything is fine, but once it’s actually time to step up to the plate, they panic. With the queen being sidelined for the rest of the year, the pressure for the Doolittles to get off their asses will start to build and they are not prepared to fulfill their “savior of the monarchy” PR. Things are about to get interesting.
Camilla tries her best and should not be lined up with Kate. She is in her mid seventies now and off to Jordan with Charles today. She also does do bread and butter engagements. A week or two ago she was in a little town near where I live for the day.
I noticed a lot watching the three of them on the balcony, from the body language I got no sense at all that they have any rapport and that after the Queen goes the divisions will be sharper. There was one point where Kate smiled to herself about something, Sophie flashed her a stern look and Kate quickly started to frown again as expected on the balcony. Kate and Camilla will be more heavily compared going forward. Sophie the Queen’s friend will be pushed out further, although she will try hard to make herself and her husband relevant in order to pay the bills.
Kate was grinning in a few photos and looking straight at the direction of the photographer so it’s likely Sophie caught that and gave her a look. It’s not the first time sophie has seen be unprofessional at this ceremony. Sophie was next to her when she was twirling her hair a while back and she gave her a stern look then too.
She really went all in on the eye brows this year.
And the three dolts dressed in cosplay uniforms they never earned, while Harry isn’t allowed to wear his. These people…
At least they didn’t insult the actual veterans by wearing their pretend medals. Little toy soldiers.
Charles and William are actual veterans.
@PC. By your definition of a veteran, Edward is also a veteran then, and the medals their mummy pinned on their chests are for that service then.
Unfortunately for other veterans their mummy can’t create a medal and pin it on their chests to give them some gravitas.
Charles and William went into the Service for the gravitas it conveys. At least Edward was honest and bounced because he felt it was not for him.
Neither Charles nor William saw action.
Is combat the criteria for being an “actual veteran”? The VA must be mistaken for all of the vets that served during peacetime getting pensions. Do you verify that a servicemember saw combat before you thank them for their service? We are a military family. My husband is infantry and served in combat. Not all soldiers are good people, but EVERYONE who puts on the uniform sacrifices. Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re infantry or a nurse on base. To try to discredit anyone’s military service, even people you don’t like, is garbage. Charles, Andrew, William, and Harry all served their country, all received medals, all are veterans. Only Andrew and Harry served in combat. Personal feelings on any of the four men doesn’t change any of those facts.
I don’t know where you’re getting all that. I said that neither Charles nor William saw action. That is true. Does it correspond with all the medals they have? That’s a different question.
The Royals can often can bypass the necessary requirements for vision, performance, and hours served in order to be propped up (this is particularly true with William). Charles enrolled in the Air Force to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather. These are not, as Merricat states, active services, so the nepotism matters less. Harry is the one who saw active service.
Yes, I do distinguish between those who see active service and those who don’t, *if they are royals*, because much of it is a vanity exercise. And this wouldn’t even be an issue if these royals weren’t hell-bent on punishing the one family member who did see active service and is the only one doing anything of note for veterans.
I’m pretty sure William and Charles’s medals dont line up with their service. Maybe one or two of them, but not all of them.
And that’s not even getting into Edward.
Isn’t the royal service a “bespoke” service anyway? It’s not like they are required to do the same things that a normal soldier would do even if they didn’t see combat. Wasn’t there many allowances made for William that other members of the forces didn’t get? Hell, if any regular soldier highjacked a helicopter and landed it on his girlfriend’s lawn, like William did, they’d be court marshaled and dishonorably discharged. There is no reason to be bent out of shape over Charles and William’s show pony service because that’s what it is.
William almost got kicked out of the RAF because he wasn’t getting his flight hours since he wasn’t on base as much as the regular military people. And the helicopter incident would have gotten anyone else discharged had they not been the grandson of the Queen. But William benefits from the media being silent and the military not treating him as they would have any other service person. Andrew was also quite hated by his Navy colleagues and likely wouldn’t have remained but for his connections.
It was very striking to me about Charles medals when he went to WW II memorial events with veterans who served on the front lines, Some on D Day. Charles looked absurd with all the medals when the real soldiers who put their lives on the line really deserved the medals. Charles even got one for attending his mother’s Coronation.
Kate looks older than her own mother.
Yeah, the BBC completely ignored a terrorist bombing in Liverpool in order to make the Queen’s bad back and no show the lead UK news story for most of yesterday.
Wow, they’re not even going to pretend not to be apolitical anymore or a serious news service.
At least their faces are melting in unison. Cue the jowls fairy! You get a jowl! And you get a jowl!…
And thins isn’t some new back sprain. The Queen had a fall weeks ago and isn’t recovering, just decompensating, I suspect. But no one is going to step up and take on her “burdens” of work because it’s not “fair” that they have to—“Can’t she just get up and do the events so they won’t cut into my vacay?” What a useless collective of colonial waste.
Oh this is really, really funny.
Funny how William seemed to be the only one smiling- why?
Is he under the illusion his parlor tricks are gaining him extra cookie points with the alt right?
Or is he happy to be the only ” young and glamourous” royal now?
I dont want to say, but maybe he feels his time as Prince of Wales is coming rather sooner than later- and that means the possibility of dumping Kkkate?
I think he was just happy that his bald head was toasty warm under his hat.
LOL!
William looks a lot better with a hat on.
@Carolind that’s because it covers his shiny Kingdome
William is the little boy happy to play soldiers. He is the epitome of arrested development. He has the stage to himself now and doesn’t need to share his toys so to speak. Good luck with that scenario.
I’m inclined to agree with you @ModeratelyWealthy. I think he’s smiling because Elizabeth is dying. He looks far too happy. For some reason, his reaction aligns with my impression of his character.
I noticed the Cambridges looking happier since the Bond premiere (when Kate wore the gold dress). I assumed because they realized that they would soon be PsoW, with their own income from the Duchy of Cornwall.
Moderately I don’t necessarily think it’s an illusion, imo it has a lot of truth to it, BUT what William doesn’t realize now is how bad it actually is for him. A “be careful what you wish for” kind of thing. He might feel like he’s winning the battle in the short term, but has he really thought through what it will mean for him, going forward? THOSE are the people he’s going to be aligned with? He’s in for an unpleasant surprise at some point.
I also don’t understand how the hell he could be smiling after the information that Meghan released. Is he really too stupid to understand how bad of a situation this is for him???
Annie, is it possible that he’s smiling because he is getting closer to divorcing Kant? I keep thinking that once the Queen (to put it indelicately) kicks the bucket that a divorce will happen. Who knows
William kind of looks younger than her in these pics. I wonder if it isn’t something that happens with some women where weight changes and ageing affect their skin’s elasticity more so she’s showing it more than he is. I have no experience to call it fact but I would assume fillers etc would have the same impact because they play with the skin’s elasticity as well.
It’s because he’s wearing a hat. Remove the hat to reveal the gleaming, Humpty Dumpty dome, and he’ll look his years (and a score more) again.
Years ago I read a quote from a plastic surgeon saying that as women age they need to choose face or body. They either need to keep on 10-15 lbs so their face has some fullness or be super skinny and have to get fillers/lifts.
I think your right and Kate is getting into some of that now.
The plastic surgeon suggestion comes down to making a choice…your face or your ass. For Kate they both lost the plot.
Yikes, that first photo is not so much Remembrance Day but “Double double, toil and trouble…eye of newt and toe of frog…”
Love your comment!
Kate always looks old. Her face has hard features and her skin is not good.
Oh dear. That is an unfortunate makeup job…she looks like a clown. I thought she had finally hired a good makeup artist?
You can always tell when Kate does her own makeup for events – she overdoes the eye makeup and doesn’t blend properly. When a pro does it she looks good – younger even.
I cackled at “witches of Eastwick” BECAUSE IT’S TRUE.
They WISH they could be as fabulous as the Witches of Eastwick!
I can’t imagine looking at these women and seeing pride in my country. But that’s prob bc I’m 25 and black (and American lol). Kate was clearly placed in the center bc they’d much rather people imagine her as the queen over Camilla, but how’s that going to work when Charles actually ascends? We joke that the Middletons over step with all the Kate embiggening, but the make Kate Queen campaign may be a BP project.
You are completely right. The three of them have very little charisma. If we are being honest, Kate has the least going for her, it must be an awful strain to have to pretend to enjoy engaging with strangers all the time.
The balcony positioning is odd. Kate in the center? Camilla is the next queen consort.
There are balconies along the whole of the frontage of the Foreign Office with the three prominent ‘royal balconies’ above the entrance. The centre balcony is for the most important and is where the Queen has stood since she stopped laying her wreath herself at the Cenotaph. On Sunday the centre balcony was occupied by Prince Edward Duke of Kent and his sister Princess Alexandra who are the Queen’s cousins. The balcony to their right held another cousin, Prince Richard Duke of Gloucester and his wife Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester. On the left balcony were, in descending order of rank Camilla, Kate and Sophie. Kate had no special position on the balcony as some tabloids were trying to claim. She was standing exactly where Meghan stood in 2019.
Are the women on the balcony lined up according to height? Or do we think Kate plopped herself in the central spot for the photos?
Cuz I would think if the royals want to emphasize continuity, the future Queen consort should be in focus, as Charles is with William and Edward behind him. Would Camilla front and centre be unpopular? Or do we think there was some jockeying by the FFQ behind the scenes? I always wonder how much or how little thought goes into these balcony shots, like who stands where, but in a family where everything is about status, I suspect quite a lot.
I don’t think they usually all stand on one balcony, the queen usually is on a balcony with one or two other people and then others are on a different balcony – but I could be wrong about that.
But my guess is they were lined up inside according to rank, Camilla, Kate, sophie, and then when they walked out in that order it ended with Camilla being on the left and Kate in the middle.
@becks1 in 2014 and 2016 (I haven’t seen 2015 bust I’m guessing most likely then as well) all three of these women stood together on the balcony like yday and Camilla was always in the middle.
But then again maybe there really is no order of preference it’s just another “ProToCoL” dictated by the rat rota
The cynical part of me thinks they were trying to recreate the Meghan Remembrance picture. She looked sombre but really stunning. Plus she was in the centre so really stood out.
Of course Kate was copying her. It’s all she knows how to do.
I just wonder why Kate has prime central position. Isn’t Camilla the senior Royal there?
Agree!
RE: “Anyway, this definitely had a “preview of coming attractions” feel to it. As in, this is what it’s going to be when King Charles is in charge.”
I feel like you buried the lead here. It’s not accidental that Kate was front and center at this event (the Queen’s usual spot.) Meaning they are “skipping” Camilla for PR reasons and centering Kate as the next female sr. royal. You don’t skip the next in line in purpose and no way do you shoulder to the front in this family either. The placement on the balcony is SUPER significant to these a-holes. Order of precedence, etc.
She doesn’t have any elevated position on the balcony. If the link works it shows how positions are determined.
https://katemiddletonstyle.org/2017-national-service-000/
There are 3 balconies. The central balcony is where the Queen stands. Either side of the Queen the line goes in descending order. So Princess Alexandra is followed by Kate and then Sophie. In 2017 Camilla is in the central balcony with Prince Philip. For that occasion she is placed above Princess Alexandra. On Sunday Alexandra and her brother were representing the Queen and Camilla was in the next balcony followed by Kate and Sophie. Precedence is shown in position in line from the Queen.
She looks old and miserable. Good.
Sorry, maybe that’s too harsh, but after the whole JK debacle I can’t bring myself to muster any grace for this woman or her wicked husband.
Never apologize for telling the truth. They are both evil and it shows in their looks
When I first started reading all of the comments on this post, I did think they seemed OTT mean today, but then I remembered what she did to Meghan and that she deserves every awful thing said about her, and that feeling went away quickly.
Over it, I agree. I know that sometimes when a person or celeb gets “work done” they change their hair style or eyebrows to redirect the focus of attention away from the work. My gosh Kate looks bad. But what strikes me especially is that no one looks happy. Hurting other people didn’t bring them peace, happiness or fulfillment.
Well, I said no one looks happy. Then there’s William. What the hell is he grinning about? Isn’t this supposed to be a solemn and dignified ceremony? I think he caught the grins from his wife.
I… kind of like Kate’s angry, severe look? It strikes me as more honest somehow. And I usually don’t like BROWS but the dour is kind of her jam.
I get it. This looks like it’s actually her, not the manic grinning and trying to show herself as someone she is not (friendly and sociable).
Yes, thank you! She’s not a friendly, gets along gal, she’s an empty suit of anger. She finally looks like herself.
Dour and severe is just what people want in a queen consort!
Good God. In that top photo, Camilla looks like a dragon.
Lol @FHMOM 😂
Sometimes I think she repeats things because either 1) Charles tries to reign in her spending and/or 2) she didn’t want to attend the event and has to pull something she has last minute.
They say Kate smokes and the constant weight loss doesn’t help her skin if all she does is Botox and face lifts. Remember when she had all them forehead lines at her sister wedding. The mail even wrote an article on it and her next outing they was gone. So she pays attention, we’ll just have to see if her next outing it will be noticable. I’m thinking for Xmas they’ll cart the kiddos out for brownie points and to get the rota off their backs so they can get to go on a long vacation
In the video of their appearance, Sophie actually looked like she wanted to cry. Charles looked on the verge of tears when the camera focused in on him as well. It seemed like real sorrow, not performance sadness. I wonder if they got bad news about the Queen right beforehand and being completely stoic wasn’t possible.
Of course, Kate’s look if that were true is more, “Oh, crap. My days here are numbered when the Queen is gone” and Will’s look is more, “Poor Granny. How long until I break free now that I won’t get bad press for disrespecting Her Majesty?”
I have no sympathy left for all of them. 🤷🏻♀️ Charlie boy is probably salivating at the thought that he is finally going to be king.
Does anybody think that Charles looked bad generally? For g-d’s sake, why didn’t he get a haircut? He usually looks much better, more put together in public appearances. And @ozJennifer and @MangoAngelique, Camilla belonged in the central position. This was very strange.
Well I find Remembrance very emotional as my dad was a bomber pilot in WWII and his service means so much to my memories of him. He was a lovely man. So I get a little weepy and look at his medals and certificates and photos of him back then. Maybe they’re thinking of Prince Philip. However Kate looks like she’s plotting William’s imminent death.
Speaking of Kate plotting the Burger King’s demise, there’s a photo on Twitter of William from yesterday where he has a huge lump/abscess very visible on one side of his lower jaw. Something is going on there that is more than incandescent clenching.
@Harper – can you provide a link? Am not on Twitter but would love to see this. Thanks!
Jaded, thank you for sharing your memories. I send you a big hug. My dad was a Naval fighter pilot in WWII, and he was wonderful. What a personality.
William’s jaw issues revealed! Kate’s worries for husband amid fears that Megxit stress is affecting his health!
https://twitter.com/isaguor/status/1459929798084603904/photo/1
Oh, wow, that looks like an abscess.
Shouldn’t Camilla be in what’s essentially the Queen’s spot? It should look like Kate and Sophie are secondary to her, because they are. But trust Kate to elbow her way front and center.
That’s what I thought. Kate does not follow protocol on balcony appearances.
People are always surprised by Kate’s face when they see an unretouched photo of her. It is shocking after the photo shopped glamour photos that are usually released. She truly has gotten the face she has earned.
Honestly not surprised the Queen pulled out. I had a feeling they’d be making a last minute announcement when they first claimed that she’d be missing all events except Remembrance Sunday. This obfuscation is only going to make people more skeptical and the press more resentful, so I hope they’re ready for that.
As for these three…they look like Lady Tremaine and the wicked stepsisters. Who Lady Tremaine should be is the question because they’re all a believable fit.
Kate looks really rough here and it’s actually alarming. It goes to show you that jealousy and hate wear on the spirit and body. Whew.
They all three are unattractive, end of story.
Honestly Camilla’s big fluffy Maleficent Evil Witch Hat stole the entire show, I barely noticed Kate’s outfit. While I don’t think much of Camilla’s fashion, she always wears the widest hats and would love to raid her hat closet lol. As for Kate’s outfit, I don’t like the white collar on the coat or the hat she paired it with, I think she has a similar blue one we’ve seen her with. It looked better with the smaller one when she last wore the coat. Also the super dark eyebrows and eyeliner are doing her no favors.
All three of them look like the same age. Pale, wrinkle, gloomy, bored, angry and uninterested.
Only willie is happy. Does he think he won by releasing jason snort at the hearing.
He is really dumb, isn’t he?
I think it’s entirely possible she has sprained her back. I mean the woman does ride horses at her age and she could have easily fallen off one. But I also think BP isn’t telling the full truth about her illnesses.
So I think it’s both: she’s not as well as BP says AND she’s got a bad back on top of whatever else.
I actually don’t think the Queen is seriously ill. These past couple of months she has been pushed out too much for PR purposes to distract from all the negative stories about Andrew and Charles. She is the trump card the palace plays to get public opinion on side to save the monarchy. So they are trying to squeeze all they can out of this 95 year old woman because none of the others are popular. Harry who used to be the most popular one has been driven out by his jealous brother. The palace tried to push the Queen to go on big visits to Ireland and Glasgow, just to make the royals look relevant. At her age she should be doing nothing but light duties but there is no one to step in and fill the gaps. Charles and Camilla are in the 70s and can’t really step up a great deal more. William and Kate clearly hate public engagements. Oh what fools the Windsors are pushing Harry and Meghan out, the Queen and some of her advisors knew that they would be crucial to supporting the monarchy going forward but old jealous William had to be placated and wasn’t going to be upstaged on a daily basis by his more able and charismatic brother and sister in law.
I actually think the back sprain story is true. However , I do believe the back sprain was caused because she has some mobility/balance issues and may have fell or stumbled and sprained her back. The public luse of the the cane and the alternate entrance to Westminster abbey was the sign to me. She probably should be using a cane regularly but like a lot of elderly people doesn’t want to. Oftentimes elderly people can be generally pretty steady which will lead them to reject regular cane usage but can be prone to sudden unpredictable weakness or loss of balance. I think she was at home and simply lost her balance and her back on Friday or Saturday. Knowing the frenzy it would create they wouldn’t have announced she was going to attend unless the believed she could. I always believed that Philip retired from public life because he didn’t want to be seen in public with a cane. Toward the end he was visibly unsteady when he had to walk or stand for extended periods.
Some nasty troll making a comment on the ToL story said that the Queen’s back pain was tension pain caused by the court case.
Lol, the lawsuit that her pedo son is dodging, maybe.
The three witches of Macbeth look like they’re plotting to curse Meghan or something.
Is Will smiling because GanGan being ill means he’s closer to a divorce?
Doormat was like, “Make it four poppies, including a poppy broche. Take that, Me-Gain!!”
Those are some clown eyebrows! Terrible. Plus she has aged badly. Envy and hate really screws one face
Everything Charles wears is so poorly tailored. He always looks so sloppy. Why has nobody fixed this?
Charles buys the very best of everything but he then wears it for years and years. Some of his suits are darned. He was ahead of his time!
Shouldn’t Camilla and the ostrich on her head been in the center of the three of them since Charles is next in line and buttons-do-nothing be where Camilla was?
Them eyebrows is straying into Joan Crawford territory
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If this is a preview of the RF to come, they’re in deeeep trouble. Not a single person in these photos has a lick of charisma, warmth, or the personability to capture the public’s attention. I’ve dipped into a few Kate articles on the DF recently and they have consistently less than 1K comments and they’re all “oooh, she’s so lovely.” And that’s it. That’s all they can muster, even the ones that are clearly bots. There’s just nothing there.
Great. Now I’ll be thinking “King Charles in Charge” for decades to come. :-p
Oh man, I really hope the press has an eternal field day with that song once Charles becomes king. I really want that, bc I know it’ll probably piss him off and make him so annoyed that people are trivializing him. Yet again.
I was thinking of Charles in Charge, the 80s sitcom, but your response made me google songs about King Charles, and I am now deceased. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA5abHKvUBQ
They effed up when they decided to pin their hopes for the future of the monarchy on this pasty crew.
Camilla looks ready to slug Kate, who looks disgustingly smug and the Fiesta looks pissed off at everyone.
That side by side pic of her and Sophie. Yikes! KKKate is only in her late thirties and she and Sophie look the same age. What’s going on? She’s usually photoshopped in every single media photo but lately the press hasn’t bothered at all.
Is anyone else surprised they didnt’ manage to trot out little George as the big show?
The photoshopping is over. Cause without their “looks” / matching hats and coats. Who are they really??? They shall fade away….
Wow, Chuck has misjudged the slimmed down monarchy if he this group is the future.
Sophie’s hat reminds me of old cartoons when they had a headache and would put an ice pack on their head.