Here are some photos from Monday’s Order of the Garter service in Windsor. The service was held at St. George’s Chapel, the larger chapel on the Windsor Castle estate. It’s an annual thing, and all of the knights of the Garter are invited and there’s some kind of secret meeting or something. Prince Andrew is a knight of the Garter, but he was told to stay home. Princess Anne and Queen Camilla are both ladies of the Garter, and Prince William and Prince Edward are both knights of the Garter. They were all in attendance, but the foreign stranger-knights of the Garter (like King Felipe and King Willem-Alexander) skipped. This was King Charles’s first Order of the Garter service as sovereign.
No one ever mentions this, but the Princess of Wales is not a lady of the Garter. While I get that she’s just a married-in royal, she’s wife to the future king and mother of the future-future king. You would think that after eleven-years-plus of marriage, they would invite her into this special club. They have not. Sophie’s not a lady of the Garter either. Both Kate and Sophie showed up to support their spouses though.
Kate wore a polka-dotted Alessandra Rich dress with a matching Philip Treacy hat. I looked it up – this is not a repeat of the Rich dress she wore to Ascot last year. That Ascot dress had bigger “dots” and a ruffle across the chest. The Rich dress this week had no chest ruffle, but did have a similar cut to other Rich dresses Kate has worn. Interestingly, I think this is the first time Kate has worn Alessandra Rich since Rich gave that interview late last year – Rich said all the right things, but I definitely got the vibe that she doesn’t think Kate is the right model for her designs. Rich would prefer to see women wear her dresses with some humor and lightness. Kate wears these prissy, overworked, beruffled pieces with too much earnestness, like she really thinks this is high fashion.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales (L) and Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (R) react as they arrive at St George’s Chapel to attend the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony in Windsor Castle in Windsor, on June 19, 2023. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago.,Image: 784251938, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS / Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales (L) and Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (R) react as they arrive at St George’s Chapel to attend the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony in Windsor Castle in Windsor, on June 19, 2023. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago.,Image: 784251971, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS / Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales (L) and Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (R) hold their hats as they arrive at St George’s Chapel to attend the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony in Windsor Castle in Windsor, on June 19, 2023. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago.,Image: 784251986, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS / Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales (C-L) and Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh (C-R) look at Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales (2nd R) and Britain’s Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh (R) arriving at St George’s Chapel to attend the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony in Windsor Castle in Windsor, on June 19, 2023. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago.,Image: 784252187, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS / Avalon
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- Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales (L) and Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales leave in a horse-drawn carriage from St George’s Chapel after attending the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony in Windsor Castle in Windsor, on June 19, 2023. The Order of the Garter is the oldest and most senior Order of Chivalry in Britain, established by King Edward III nearly 700 years ago.,Image: 784252412, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS / Avalon
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- Camera Press Rota 04465561. The Prince and Princess of Wales attend the Royal Order Of The Garter Installation Service at Windsor Castle.,Image: 784267831, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Camera Press Rota, Model Release: no, Credit line: David Dyson / Avalon
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- The Prince and Princess of Wales depart the annual Order of the Garter Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Picture date: Monday June 19, 2023.,Image: 784271411, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: ***NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Yui Mok / Avalon
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- (left to right) The Prince of Wales, The Princess of Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duke of Edinburgh watch as King Charles and Queen Camilla depart the annual Order of the Garter Service at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Berkshire. Picture date: Monday June 19, 2023.,Image: 784271492, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: ***NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Yui Mok / Avalon
At least her hair is up and we don’t have to see those raggedy wiglets. I don’t like the dress or the shoes. Sophie looks a mess too.
The dress is again a copy of Diana, very 80’s. Sophie is a (bad) joke again.🤣
All that money and zero sense of fashion…..
Yep, it’s nearly an exact copy (other than the neckline and hat) of what Diana wore to the service in 1988
Kate is very much copy keening Diana. However, I will say I love the hat and the shoes… But that dress is the worst. It does nothing to accentuate that Kate, when dressed properly, is an attractive woman. (I don’t like Kate but she really needs another stylist that befits the Princess of Wales.)
Kate cosplayed herself!
Even TLo commented that this Alessandra Rich dress is almost and exact copy of an Alessandra Rich dress that Kate already owns and the hat, even for the UK, is borderline ridiculous.
I always get annoyed because I think Kate has the face to pull off a bob and look amazing but she insists on long curls.
I actually saw a photoshopped picture of her once on Instagram where someone put a chin length bob on her and it looked amazing. She could actually look chic if she would chop off that ragged cocker spaniel hair.
The Lady Mary Crawley Talbot look???
Agreed, I think she’d look fabulous with a bob. Even if it were just a wig, it would be a fun look for her and so chic. I wonder, too, how she’d look with hair color that’s just a shade lighter brown to soften her current color a bit, and maybe the same for her eyebrows.
Even the shoes, which are different than a ‘normal’ spectator are a copy of Diana’s look circa 1988.
ooof her look is taking Eliza Doolittle’s Ascot dress (in the movie) and dialing in 80s frumpiness up to 1000.
Why are we commenting on what women wear?
Kidding. Anyway, she looks off balance, like she’s going to fall over. Like her front side is heavier than her back. I like her outfit in theory but not execution. And the ruffles and puff sleeves? Anne Shirley would surely blush!!
Right? She just needs the parasol!
Oh goody the polka dots and Victorian dressing is back. More pomp and circumstance crap to have ones picture taken.
Im kind off happy she’s back to the her victorian era dressing. This look in particular screams Diana but I get the feeling that it’s actually closer to her own style. She just loves frills and polka dots and buttons and a whole lot of busy on her dress.
She copied Diana’s royal ascot look all the way down to her shoes. She only spoke to Sophie when she saw no one else was around to talk to. It was quick and short. Still 😡 at her for going with Will to see the 🎥. Knowing Sophie can’t say no. She’s petty and mean spirited. Which is the reason she nor her Mom nor Pippa has female friends
The shoes are by a brand that M wore when she visited a school in Dagenham to mark International Women’s Day. K’s clutch is by another brand championed by M. To my knowledge K has never worn Jennifer Chamandi or Strathberry before.
At this point, I think it’s deliberate @sure. She wants to eliminate Meghan and her fashion choices by adopting them and wearing them constantly so that they become hers…Jennifer Chamandi, Strathberry and Aquazzura again today…in a few years nobody would speak about Kate coping Meghan…. as she would be the one she would wear them… 🙄🙄🙄
@susanCollins, I thought the hat was her taking the mickey out of the hats worn by the men, look at how closely it resembles them but on a smaller scale
@Mary Pester. I did see the hat and it does look like she is copying the ones the men are wearing. She wants to play too.
That would solely be down to Philip Treacy.
Sophie and Kate are giving off “evil queen” energy in those pics.
Maybe more ugly stepsister? Especially Sophie. I myself am a shorter, rounder woman with plump, bumpy arms. After a lifetime of dressing myself, I can confidently say Sophie has chosen one of the worst dresses possible in terms of proportion, business, what it reveals and what it conceals. Just the absolute inverse of what she should be wearing.
Oh and I cannot believe Kate has two nearly identical polka dot dresses by the same designer. What a joke.
Wait until you see her outfit for today, @Gruey. It’s also very similar to one she has…the only difference is the black outline of the pockets at this point we can be assured that she has a serious problem.
It’s the Duchess of Gloucester for the win.
@Tacky – Agree! Birgitte Windsor wins the Best Dressed Award!
Did you notice the side-eye sophie was giving khate?
And IMHO Sophie looks 800% better than Kate.
From their Disney villain collection?
Yes, the Evil Queen version of Diana’s 1988 Ascot polka dot and black-toed shoes.
Ha ha – I had the exact same thought 🤣 I think it’s the lipstick – it’s a darker, harsher shade than usual, and it’s not flattering, it looks very stark and severe and the polka dots are not strong enough to counter-balance that.
Very Eliza Doolittle. How fitting. And that lipstick color is all wrong for her.
She is SO heavily made up! Think how much make up she will need in another ten years.
And the hat is cosplaying a Garter hat. She may be dropping hints about wanting to join.
Ohhh I think you’re right about that hat she has on. She wants to play too.
Honestly when I saw just the head shot I thought she was in the club. We see you Kate.
Kate is approaching Joan Collins territory with her makeup. And with her Dynasty era style come to think of it.
She looks fine … like uninspired herself. But that hairpiece is working overtime on that chignon.
One of the RR wrote about this outfit and how terrib similar it was to last year’s Ascot brown and white polka dress. Also, KKate buying the same bespoke ndress and outfits to give the appearance of recycling Defeats Earthshit goals
Did Kate get some filler? Her cheeks look a little full.
I noticed that too ! In the photo on the carriage is quite clear…
I wondered too. It seems to be bigger on her right side so did a cushion make contact there? Is she using the hat to try to hide it?
What about S’s outfit? The hat, gaudy printed dress, oversized baroque pearl necklace and white shoes with criss-cross detail. What an expensive mess!
I ego this sentiment. Sophie looks terrible.
Oof, this look is bad. Stuffy, dated, and right out of a Victorian period piece movie. What modern princess dresses like this??
Are there a million articles about body language and Will’s dour expression? If PH went around looking like that there would be an influx of articles about how miserable he is in Calif and with Meghan. And what is up with the creepy way Sohie keeps staring at Kate?
There’s some barf-worthy articles about the ‘look of love’ between W&K. They’re clearly not seeing what we’re seeing.
The rota clowns are forcing down our throats the idea that William and Kate are so much in love with each other. You’re right they don’t see what we see which is a loveless marriage, a sham marriage. The British media are doing a propaganda to dupe the people into believing that William is not “Rose-bushing” and his marriage with his wife is not a marriage of convenience. Pictures of them don’t lie. These two are so over each other.
Genuinely surprised Baldimort okayed her attendance at this.
It surprised me too.
Is anyone keeping track of the thousands and thousands worth of new cloths Kate has worn since we found out her broke, grifting parents are not paying the millions they owe to small businesses who trusted them?
She has worn something new almost every time she has done an engagement since the queen has passed. Even Camilla has worn more repeats than her.
They are not only new. This whole ensemble is bespoke..even the shoes! Which means pretty expensive too.
Add this bespoke appearance to the one on Saturday and you have thousands spent… and nobody talks about it. On the contrary, she’s admired for her clothing choices (yeah, believe it, it’s true..I was shocked when a group of friends, teachers and well-educated expressed their admiration for her troop ing the color appearance and her outfit for the weddingin Jordan. I guessed the propaganda works. We aren’t British but unfortunately every single outlet in my country repeats articles from daily fail etc.
She’s giving Eva Peron now – the extravagant, expensive wardrobe, regardless of the occasion. Reminds me of the song in the musical about Evita’s Rainbow Tour to Europe, full of clothes and jewels with the justification that, paraphrasing here, the peasants – the descamidos – needed to see her “high flying, adored” to have hope and beauty in their lives. Kate hasn’t done that so far, but she’s approaching that idea with her heavy spending of those Duchy pounds on her clothing and accessories. The woman reveals her shallowness and lack of identity every day, and in my mind, anything authentic about her is well and truly gone.
@Babz I will forever now see her as a second rate queen getting kicks with her crown
Oof, the dress with the fake cummerbund.
Just don’t take a deep breath.
The makeup is much too heavy, especially for the weather, and the straps of the shoes cut into the flesh of Kate’s ankles.
Water retention for whatever reason? No idea why she’s wearing these kinds of shoes then.
She’s wearing them because Diana wore the same type when she wore a polka dot dress like this.
Plus, Meghan wore the same type of shoe on the farewell tour in 2020 when she visited the school. Kate’s worn them a couple of times since then, but this particular pair isn’t attractive at all on her. You never see her with ankle swelling, but it seems apparent here. Not many women can carry off this style, but Meg did. It’s not working here.
A polka dot dress that closely resembles another polka dot dress. How scintillating and completely not wasteful at all.
Yeah, not fond of what’s happening in the poofy boob area.
It is terrible! It makes her bust look really low – like it’s being held up by the cummerbund at her waist. The whole dress is not to my taste, but I can’t imagine spending $$$$ on a dress that makes me look so saggy.
Kate, as always, looks like a humorless tight-ass, an ironing board wrapped in fabric, and Sophie looks like a bridesmaid.
These endless ceremonies held every year just seem like made -up nonsense designed to make the RF look busy and important. It’s pathetic.
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Sophie always has such a complete “pick me” air about her, especially around Kate. Strangely, I didn’t get that impression of her the night she and Will did their engagement last week. She looked confident and happy, and he treated her with respect. Kate intimidates her, I think, so she tries too hard. It’s so junior high.
I love this Order of the Garter ceremony because Burger King always looks like he wants to die from embarrassment at the getup he has to wear. That photo with Kate and Sophie laughing at him as he marches by? Hilarious. I saw some folks trying to post some “festive glance” photos of Kate and Will from here, but they were a massive stretch. Per the usual, Willy’s eyes were focused elsewhere while Kate guffawed in his direction.
Wasn’t Megan ripped apart for wearing a sleeveless dress and here’s Sophie?
I actually kind of like this wacky get up on Kate. She looks better when she wears her hair up.
I know it’s Diana cosplay but the silhouette (?) of her dress is also giving Wallis Simpson on her wedding day.
She and Sophie look like they’re going to two entirely different events. No cohesion whatsoever. Also, isn’t Sophie breaking protocol with the sleeveless dress?
I agree with the Wallis Simpson comparison. Kate is also plain, like Wallis was.
Except Wallis had style. And utterly fab jewelry!
Prim is an understatement.
God what a waste of money. She has an appallingly similar dress from last year and yet she still needs to buy a new one. and a new hat, because she doesn’t have enough black and white hats I guess?
And I get that the Order of the Garter is traditional and one of the oldest Orders there is….but after the coronation and the weirdly muted trooping, I do not feel like this is sending the vibes about modernizing the monarchy and reaching a new generation etc that Charles and william talk about wanting to do…..
Exactly, @Becks1. The first thing I thought of when I saw these photos was “oh, how modern” (sarcasm). At some point you’re just participating in tradition for tradition’s sake, without question. History has told us many times this is very bad practice.
I’m never one to think about how much these people spend on clothes but even I am wondering why you’d buy such a similar dress to what you already own? I hate almost everything Kate wears that I generally don’t comment anymore on an outfit. It’s always some combination of unfashionable, matronly, and just bad style. Add waste of money to the list for this one.
Something nice – this may be unpopular but I like the berry lips on her. She should experiment like that more often.
Didn’t they just have the Trooping of the Colors a few days ago?
Now this, another big showy official duties day.
Plus Fathers Day photos.
Over exposed y’all.
William in all the velvet, medals, feathered hat, LOL.
He always looks miserable in those outfits, just grinding his teeth.
Can’t blame him, he looks beyond goofy.
June is a heavy month for these types of affairs. Ascot is coming up, and there’s usually a garden party at Buckingham Palace, although they just did one after the coronation. I think the Queen always had a week of royal engagements in Scotland in June, and then “the Season” ends and we never see them until October. Poor sausages need to rest up after all their society obligations. 🙄
What a waste of money. Her bag and shoes were new too.
I like how William has no interest and shows his distaste for Kate at every outing (karma baby). He looks like why me. Don’t talk to me. He’d rather be talking to the wall than to have to listen and be in Kate’s presence. Just go on and divorce her. Times have changed and no one will care if he upgrades. He’s thinking where is Sophie so I can talk to her. LOL!!
I think she looks good here. I like the outfit, except for the shoes which turn it into 40’s cosplay. The outfit would have looked better with some more modern shoes. But, she looks like a Princess, and that’s her job. Much better than that terrible green outfit from Trooping the Color.
Why aren’t Kate and Sophie Ladies of the Garter when Camilla became one before she became queen? Also shouldn’t Kate be on the Privy Council by now given 11 years in the Firm? She’ll automatically become Counselor of State when it’s William’s turn. The clothes horse/”perfect” mom image they peddle doesn’t work here.
Catherine has way too much makeup on, it hardly looks like her in these photos.
That dress is not a good look.
Kate.should tone down that makeup. Agree.
Even though everything is ridiculous, I cant help but loving fascinators in general. I love a good hat! I would literally just have a fascinator party with my gal pals and just have afternoon drinks in the backyard.
These dresses are really quite awful though – they look so..blech.
You should totally do it! Friends of mine had one (with fancy cocktails and cute little sandwiches) and it was a lot of fun.
I can only comment on the pictures.
Kate’s dress is fine but boring. Lose the damn ruffle/poof at sleeve.
Carriage ride photo : wow!! Those two really do dislike each other.
Walking down stairs(?) It looks like her boobs are at her waist. How does this happen?
Ah! The picture of two birds getting ready to either take off in flight or just laying eggs!
Just strange: Sophie in a sleeveless dress (which I think looks nice….it IS Sophie after all), while people pass by in heavy velvet. Quite confusing.
How many more costumes are we going to see Chuck in next month?
PS: forgot one. Top photo: I think Sophie is studying Kates makeup.
Is it just me or does Kate looked completely ticked off. If you look closely, kate does NOT look happy standing next to Sophie. At all…
Also, William looked absolutely MISERABLE standing next to kate and in the carriage but were about used to that now. What struck me was Kate’s behavior around Sophie. And I’m not necessarily insinuating anything with Sophie & William but I have a feeling she was NOT happy about their little engagement together the other day. And no, I don’t think it has anything to do with her snapping at Charlotte.
And this looks like the same mess she always wears. And Sophie looks even worse.
Look at the “ladies” all proud of their men in dress up clothes lol they are so cringe
Why did they arrive in carriages? So the peasants could gawk? BTW, I don’t see a picture of a crowd, so I assume there were tourists only.
Why oh why did I zoom in on kkkhate’s hat fluff? The feathers are polka dotted too! 😆
BillyBasher looks absolutely ridiculous…and he knows it.
“the feathers are polka-dotted too!”
I hurt my head when it hit the table
I guess Trooping, Garter Day, and Ascot are big fashion occasions for the women and fun for us to comment on. Both hats are very over the top! I can see Kate’s hat paying homage to the garter hate. If she keeps appearing in versions polka dot dresses, she could make it a signature look all her own. I don’t understand why Sophie is wearing a white hat with red and blue hues while her dress is pink and green on a white background. I think Sophie’s dress would be perfect for a garden party or a summer wedding. I notice she has a shawl in her hands- probably for inside the church.
Camilla used to be the one to wear the giant sombrero sized hats. I always got a kick out of them. Now that she’s queen consort, she seems to be wearing smaller hats and Kate seems to have given up her smaller fascinators for giant brims and flying saucers. I love seeing hats, and the Brits are the only ones that always wear them at official engagments.
What a fussy constipated look lord she’s so bad at this
I actually like Sophie’s hat & her Wilma Flintstone necklace. Nothing to say about Kate.
I like the shoes and the look from the neck up. The rest of it doesn’t do anything for me and Sophie is just bad.
Will looks like he would rather.be somewhere else.
Kkkhate might be reading CB these days. Her posture seems to be a bit better, at least in these latest photos.
You should see the photo of Kate with McCartney at this event. Her posture is atrocious! Swayback + hunchback + head thrust so far forward I wondered she didn’t fall.
Meh, to the hat. She looks ok, dull as usual.
Queen Latizia vibes , but ofc she will copy anybody with any sense of style .
Poor thing !
There is not one original bone in KKKhates body.
I think Kate had more face work. Her facial skin looks super-moisturized, maybe shiny? Look what happens when Kate turns to Will. He won’t look directly at her and is shifty-eyed in his effort to appear not to notice her. That must have hurt Kate. He’s training her never to look at him publicly again. That is some bullshit in a marriage. I would never put up with that even if all the riches of the world were at the end of this rough road. They are both cruel, but they are also very cruel to one another (not that I care). If I’m Kate, I divorce that MOFO right NOW. But I know she won’t.
The number one graduate of Mummy and Daddys school of grifting is out shopping again. No shame whatsoever, another new outfit. She makes the dress look awful, its so wrong for her body shape, the very busy hat looks like she is trying to copy the order of the garter hats, it does not match her dress, does she have a mirror ? Sophies dress is pretty, though a simple plain pink hat and matching bright pink shoes would have looked much more stylish. Wondering if Khate demanded that the other women around her dress in dowdy and dull colors, none of them look happy either.
Ales, none of them deserve happiness, do they?
I actually like this for her. It gives her a bosom. The polka dots are just right for the occasion, I’m guessing… they take these ceremonies seriously? I just wish she had hips. Don’t they make undergarments that have fake hips in them? I know I keep asking …
I like the vibrant pink that Sophie chose but someone needs to take some scissors to that hat. I actually think a fitted skirt would help the lines with a hat this big. Think inverted triangle. The good thing is that she has a standard body type of most women and it wouldn’t take that much to keep her from looking ridiculous.
Do you see the lady over Sophie’s shoulder? In the gray with the peter pan collar? That hat would be better than these tree-toppers the royals wear.
WHAT is Sophie wearing on her head?! And what is Kate’s pathological need to buy multiples of “similar but not the same” outfits? Such a waste of money.
The UK tabloids called Kate Middleton “radiant” and ‘dazzling” in her various very expensive near identical polka dot dresses of yesteryears.
We are persuaded that the theatrical theme dressing or cosplay is worthy and value for money in evoking Princess Diana, Audrey Hepburn, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion and an assortment of other costly allusions
The tabloids willfully neglect to say that it is costing the taxpayers a ransom for the near identical endless polka dots display and to what ends?
What’s with the side eye from Sophie?
Anne is a Knight of the Garter, not a lady