EIIR
Heir Presumptive
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2011
- Messages
- 2,656
- City
- Somewhere
- Country
- United Kingdom
I remember when Kate's yellow dress blew up in Canada people said, "the Queen would never let that happen!". Turns out they were wrong.
Virtually all royal ladies have experiences wardrobe malfunctions of some sorts.The Queen wouldn't let that happen "now" it seems. Also HM was wearing a slip. I wonder how many royal ladies have had their skirts blow up from the wind.
Thank you, I'm quite honoured!Artemisia, I tip my cyber hat to you as the Queen of Esoteric Research and Arcana! What a great gallery of rising hemlines; the photo of Maxima with her wardrobe malfunction is just and deserves a special mention. And did Queen Elizabeth's dressmaker forget the weights in her hem?
Daria_S said:This is going to be pretty spectacular.
Artemisia said:This probably should be in Diamond Jubilee thread.
Bong! Will Big Ben tower be renamed after the Queen?
Personally, I think that's a great idea.
The Queen certainly deserves the honour as much as her great ancestress did.
Sorry to go backwards, but I also want to thank Artemisia for taking the time to look for and post those pictures. Queen Paola had the worst wind imo. And it's unfortunate that with Camilla's we see her wearing knee highs instead of full on stockings.
As for Maxima, good gawd! It actually looks like she did it on purpose, like the shirt is intentionally transparent. But I have seen some women on red carpets wearing what appears to be a normal black dress but with all the flashes the dress decides to play peek-a-boo.
Queen Paola's wardrobe malfunction was pretty unfortunate but not the worst: I deliberately cropped the picture of Princess Letizia and chose not to post the most embarrassing ones of Kate out of respect. Unfortunately, both ladies were rather more exposed than Queen Paola.Sorry to go backwards, but I also want to thank Artemisia for taking the time to look for and post those pictures. Queen Paola had the worst wind imo.
I looked again and it appears that she does have the same arrangement on both legs. When my MIL broke her leg (granted she was a 15 years older than Camilla) they had her wear a compression contraption on both legs when she was laid up to prevent clotting issues, but not afterwards. I guess it's possible she's wearing knee highs. Camilla was famously indifferent to fashion, so who knows.I'm fairly certain she's wearing some kind of support/compression stocking as she had just recently broken her leg. When the cast comes off, often people are advised to wear those kinds of things for up to a year to try and prevent swelling. If you look really carefully, I don't think she's got one on the other leg.
Thanks Artemisia for those great pics. Perhaps you've come upon an idea for a more general thread - Royal Woopsies?
As quite a few comments after the article state, they just don't make them like that any more. Prince Philip is quite simply a national treasure.Prince Philip has spoken publicly for the first time of his part in a Second World War naval battle where 'all hell broke loose'. He described his vital role in the Battle of Cape Matapan where Royal Navy warships destroyed Italian cruisers off the Greek coast in 1941. Aged just 19, he was in charge of picking out enemy ships in the darkness using the spotlight aboard HMS Valiant.
Wonderful article, thank you Duke!
All hell broke loose': Duke of Edinburgh gives first account of his role in 1941 naval battle that sank Italian cruisers
As quite a few comments after the article state, they just don't make them like that any more. Prince Philip is quite simply a national treasure.
I would have been proud to have him as a member of my royal family (if we did have a royal family).
I am a keen supporter of this move; Her Majesty certainly deserves the honour.Senior MPs from all three main parties are being given unprecedented freedom to back moves to rename the tower housing Big Ben in honour of the Queen’s six decades on the throne. Ministers and shadow ministers, who do not traditionally support backbench campaigns, are being encouraged to sign up to a cross-party proposal to change the structure’s official name from the Clock Tower to the Elizabeth Tower.