Queen Rania's Daytime Fashion: Part 2

[Anita]

I'm not sure about this dress ...but Rania wears it the best one can do .

[dazzling]

May 7, 2008 in Amsterdam - Queen Rania in a black & white outfit. The top looks creamy down the sides, white through the center & black trimmings, not liking it at all.
Picture (ANP) -- Picture 2 (ANP)

[magnik]

Originally Posted by Anita

I'm not sure about this dress ...but Rania wears it the best one can do .

Dress is nice. But comparing with the lady on her side Rania should take off the jacket and take smaller purse.

[Turkish Delight]

Originally Posted by dazzling

May 7, 2008 in Amsterdam - Queen Rania in a black & white outfit. The top looks creamy down the sides, white through the center & black trimmings, not liking it at all.
Picture (ANP) -- Picture 2 (ANP)

Rania looks wonderful! Her black & white outfit is really lovely.

[Little_star]

Originally Posted by shrifia

I agree with you yamamah,very well said.
I always said that rania turned from naturally young lady that wore what her position requires to overstyled personn and wannabe model who care more about her look than other thing and the proof is the clothes she wore lately as you said like she is going to meet a freinds and not to official duties.

For somebody who isn't interested in her role as you claim she sure keeps a busy agenda and schedule. You would be hard pushed to find many Royals, both in and outside the Arab World, who work as hard she she does.

Back on topic, I love today's top and it's perfect for the weather at the moment. The belt and bag are both repeats from Azerbaijan.

[Little_star]

In this photo it looks like today's outfit is actually a white top with a yellow cardigan over it
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...2/74840971.jpg

It looks very chic in the close-up.

[Al_bina]

I fully agree with you, Little_star. Queen Rania looks elegantly sportif and comfortable. The whole outfit nicely enhances her figure. A rather avant-garde pattern does add a special touch to the top. I like even the belt, which seems to be an integral part of Queen Rania's most outfits.

[chelsea]

Rania's top is by Jonathan Saunders from Harvey Nichols in London

[Adamari]

[quote=Little_star;762839]For somebody who isn't interested in her role as you claim she sure keeps a busy agenda and schedule. You would be hard pushed to find many Royals, both in and outside the Arab World, who work as hard she she does.


I would have to strongly disagree with this statement. You can find many royals around the world who work harder than she does. Princess Anne and Prince Felipe of Spain are two individuals who come to mind. They are constantly doing public engagements in their own countries and around the world, and those engagements are not usually of the glamorous or media-magnet kind that Rania flocks to (especially abroad). They do the mundane engagements that enable them to be seen by a broad range of society. I've noticed that especially with Prince Felipe. You constantly see him in the public eye, doing his job. Princess Anne, meanwhile, has a notorious work ethic I think more royals should emulate.

When compared to Felipe and Anne, Rania doesn't have nearly as busy a schedule as she should for a queen. She travels a lot, and I think that might make people believe she has a busier schedule than she does. But even then she puts in no more than one engagement a day, if that. I've watched solo trips to the United States where she has done an average of one engagement every two days. And I've never seen her make solo foreign trips to the less glamorous spots of the world – it's always to the U.S., other parts of the Arab world and a few countries in Europe. When she's in Jordan, she'll do a spurt of engagements and then disappear from public view for a while. This year she enjoyed three vacations in the first three months, and likely has more planned. And she always seriously scales back her activities in the summer, supposedly to spend time with the kids. So once this month's flurry of travel is over, we likely won't see much of her until the fall.

I think she still cares a great deal about her clothes and I suspect those long absences from the public view involve shopping trips to London and Paris. She is constantly debuting new clothes even though she is, admittedly, repeating a few more clothes than she used to when she first became queen. But it is still way too much for a queen of a poor country.

Just my opinion.

[Little_star]

Originally Posted by Adamari

I would have to strongly disagree with this statement. You can find many royals around the world who work harder than she does. Princess Anne and Prince Felipe of Spain are two individuals who come to mind. They are constantly doing public engagements in their own countries and around the world, and those engagements are not usually of the glamorous or media-magnet kind that Rania flocks to (especially abroad).

Would you care to elaborate with what you mean by "media magnet". The Global Report Initiative for example is hardly what I would call a media event. The coverage has actually been pretty low-key with few photos available. The only other big international event that springs to mind if the WEF, but as a foundation board member her attendance is to be expected and possibly even required. It's become a well-respected event in its own right and to refer to it as a "media magnet" is under-estimating it greatly imo.

Originally Posted by Adamari

When compared to Felipe and Anne, Rania doesn't have nearly as busy a schedule as she should for a queen. She travels a lot, and I think that might make people believe she has a busier schedule than she does. But even then she puts in no more than one engagement a day, if that. I've watched solo trips to the United States where she has done an average of one engagement every two days.

She has and does often carry out multiple events on the same day, usually in Jordan, as was the case fairly recently when she attended 2 different events on the same day. Moreover IMRIC during her trip to China she also carried out a variety of different activities on the same day.

Originally Posted by Adamari

And I've never seen her make solo foreign trips to the less glamorous spots of the world – it's always to the U.S., other parts of the Arab world and a few countries in Europe.

I guess you've missed her solo trip to Pakistan to visit earthquake victims she was one of the first high profile figures to make such a trip; the King was the first. Bam in Iran to visit the refugees from the earthquake there. She also visited refugee camps in Kosovo, just one day after becoming Queen, this doesn't include a trip she made to Bosnia. As well as undertaking trips to India and South Africa as part of her role as UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children; neither country is known internationally for being "glamorous".

Originally Posted by Adamari

When she's in Jordan, she'll do a spurt of engagements and then disappear from public view for a while.

We must have different ideas of what "a while" consitutues as she never seem to have a break of more than a week or so (if that!). It seems that in the average week she will have at least 2 to 3 engagements and that appears to be the norm.

Originally Posted by Adamari

This year she enjoyed three vacations in the first three months, and likely has more planned.

Three? There was a trip to Austria skiing and a private visit to London but I'm not aware of any others. The London trips don't really count (imo) as they are not always for pleasure. There have been private trips in the past where it has later emerged that the Queen did participate in some sort of official duty.

Originally Posted by Adamari

And she always seriously scales back her activities in the summer, supposedly to spend time with the kids. So once this month's flurry of travel is over, we likely won't see much of her until the fall.

In the coming month she has a trip to Brunei, a major conference in Jordan as well as the WEF in the Middle East in Egypt. June sees the Petra Nobel Laureates Conference which is a big event for Jordan.

Moreover the summer months are a seen as a "holiday" for the vast majority of Royals and politicians alike. Hence the numerous photos of the Spanish Royals in Mallorca or the Danish Royals in Caix. Here in the UK, Parliament has a 76 day holiday during the course of August and September.

Originally Posted by Adamari

I think she still cares a great deal about her clothes and I suspect those long absences from the public view involve shopping trips to London and Paris.She is constantly debuting new clothes even though she is, admittedly, repeating a few more clothes than she used to when she first became queen. But it is still way too much for a queen of a poor country.

In past interviews she has actually said that most of her clothes are free from designers or borrowed items (I think that was in reference to evening dress specifically) so the suggestion that she is spending her free time buying clothes would seem to be grossly inaccurate.

[Adamari]

Originally Posted by Little_star

Would you care to elaborate with what you mean by "media magnet". The Global Report Initiative for example is hardly what I would call a media event. The coverage has actually been pretty low-key with few photos available. The only other big international event that springs to mind if the WEF, but as a foundation board member her attendance is to be expected and possibly even required. It's become a well-respected event in its own right and to refer to it as a "media magnet" is under-estimating it greatly imo.

You're looking at recent events, and then only conferences. I'm looking at the whole range of activities she has done abroad over the last nine years. In New York last year she attended the costume ball – an enormously well-covered event. In California she attended the women's conference that also received big coverage. She routinely goes to gala dinners and events to accept awards. As for the WEF, it can be both a well-respected conference and a media event that draws people not just because of the seriousness of its work but because of the media attention it brings to its participants.


She has and does often carry out multiple events on the same day, usually in Jordan, as was the case fairly recently when she attended 2 different events on the same day. Moreover IMRIC during her trip to China she also carried out a variety of different activities on the same day.

I hardly consider two events in one day a strenuous day. Princess Anne covers four on an almost daily basis, not a few times a week. China was a rare trip when she actually got out there and did something. Her normal pattern when she travels to the U.S. or Europe is to do few engagements.


I guess you've missed her solo trip to Pakistan to visit earthquake victims she was one of the first high profile figures to make such a trip; the King was the first. Bam in Iran to visit the refugees from the earthquake there. She also visited refugee camps in Kosovo, just one day after becoming Queen, this doesn't include a trip she made to Bosnia. As well as undertaking trips to India and South Africa as part of her role as UNICEF Eminent Advocate for Children; neither country is known internationally for being "glamorous".

Her trip to Pakistan is an example of what I mean by going to where the media coverage is. That tragedy dominated the international news and she ensured herself coverage by going in person. I don't recall the trip to Bam. You're right about Kosovo and Bosnia but she hasn't done anything like that since then. If she had kept that up over the last nine years, then I would agree with you wholeheartedly. But she hasn't. Her UNICEF role does get her out a little bit more but here the issue isn't glamour but media. India is quickly becoming an important country on the world stage and South Africa has a strong international profile as well. If she had made trips to the interior of Africa – to countries few have heard of – or even Latin America, then I would agree with your underlying point.


We must have different ideas of what "a while" consitutues as she never seem to have a break of more than a week or so (if that!). It seems that in the average week she will have at least 2 to 3 engagements and that appears to be the norm.

A week is too long for her not to be doing public engagements, and two to three engagements a week is too little when she is working. Princess Anne can do three in one day.

Three? There was a trip to Austria skiing and a private visit to London but I'm not aware of any others. The London trips don't really count (imo) as they are not always for pleasure. There have been private trips in the past where it has later emerged that the Queen did participate in some sort of official duty.

She went to France for week in March, just after Mother's Day in Jordan. A picture from that trip was posted on The Royal Forums. And I do count the trips to London because an overwhelming share of them are personal. She rarely does engagements in London anymore.

In the coming month she has a trip to Brunei, a major conference in Jordan as well as the WEF in the Middle East in Egypt. June sees the Petra Nobel Laureates Conference which is a big event for Jordan.

May tends to be a busy month for the Jordanian royals due to the WEF. This is what I would prefer to see a typical month look like, but only with far more activities in Jordan than outside of it.

Moreover the summer months are a seen as a "holiday" for the vast majority of Royals and politicians alike. Hence the numerous photos of the Spanish Royals in Mallorca or the Danish Royals in Caix. Here in the UK, Parliament has a 76 day holiday during the course of August and September.

Just because Parliament is in recess doesn't mean the politicians aren't working. They will spend that "down time" going to events in their constituencies to make sure voters remember who they are. Other royals do take vacation in the summer but they also keep working like the rest of us mortals. They don't take the whole summer off. Not even Queen Elizabeth II. She might be in Scotland but she must deal with official papers every day.

In past interviews she has actually said that most of her clothes are free from designers or borrowed items (I think that was in reference to evening dress specifically) so the suggestion that she is spending her free time buying clothes would seem to be grossly inaccurate.

I bet you she still does a lot of shopping. And I wonder if her comment isn't a little self serving when it comes to the issue of cost. I'm sure some of her evening gowns are freebies but I'm skeptical about her day clothes.

In conclusion, I respect your opinions about Rania but I must respectfully disagree with them.

P.S. I don't know how to do the individual quotes so I have bolded my comments as they appear within the larger quote.

[Al_bina]

Unless you go shopping with Her Majesty or have an access to Her Majesty's personal expense information, you can not state that Queen Rania devotes a lot of time to shopping. Generally speaking, all women like to shop and there is nothing wrong with it. We do not know what exactly Queen Rania does during "those long absences from the public view". Of course, you are entitiled to your opinion, but it is wrong to pass categorical judgments about the person without factoring in all the details. I dare to say that there are many details we are unaware of.

[Little_star]

Originally Posted by Adamari

I'm looking at the whole range of activities she has done abroad over the last nine years. In New York last year she attended the costume ball – an enormously well-covered event

As far as I'm aware she attended that particular event in a private capacity. Moreover several different papers at the time reported that unlike the vast majority of guests she chose to use the back entrance because (imo) it seems as though she would rather her presence had gone unnoticed.

Originally Posted by Adamari

In California she attended the women's conference that also received big coverage. She routinely goes to gala dinners and events to accept awards

She attended the Global Leadership awards which is a UN linked organisation, it's not as though she was attending the Oscars. Moreover the Women's Conference attracted figures such as Tony Blair, Mohammed Yunus and Thomas Friedman, so it wasn't a purely glitzy event by any stretch of the imagination.

Originally Posted by Adamari

I hardly consider two events in one day a strenuous day. Princess Anne covers four on an almost daily basis, not a few times a week.

You previously said that she doesn't undertake multiple events and I pointed out that this is not true. She can and does.

Originally Posted by Adamari

China was a rare trip when she actually got out there and did something. Her normal pattern when she travels to the U.S. or Europe is to do few engagements.

It may have seemed rare to you, but I can think of at least three or four other international visits that were just as hectic, including the state visit to the Netherlands (when she had her foot injury), as well as trips to Turkey, Greece and Italy.

Originally Posted by Adamari

Her trip to Pakistan is an example of what I mean by going to where the media coverage is. That tragedy dominated the international news and she ensured herself coverage by going in person.

She went as part of her work for UNICEF, she wasn't ensuring media coverage for herself but for UNICEF.

Originally Posted by Adamari

Her UNICEF role does get her out a little bit more but here the issue isn't glamour but media. India is quickly becoming an important country on the world stage and South Africa has a strong international profile as well. If she had made trips to the interior of Africa – to countries few have heard of – or even Latin America, then I would agree with your underlying point.

Considering the fact that the Jordanian Royal Family do not seem to have any major links with any Latin American countries I would be very surprised to see Rania on a trip there. A pleasant surprise, but one nonetheless.

The country's sphere of influence is the Middle East and other muslim countries which imo is why you are far more likely to see her on a trip to Morocco or Lebanon than Nigeria or Zimbabwe.

Originally Posted by Adamari

A week is too long for her not to be doing public engagements, and two to three engagements a week is too little when she is working. Princess Anne can do three in one day

I said a week as an example, it's usually less than that. Moreover you are assuming that the time she is not seen in public is purely leisure. I highly doubt that she's sat around filing her nails in the interim, particularly as she does have so many patronages and causes, both nationally and internationally.

Originally Posted by Adamari

She went to France for week in March, just after Mother's Day in Jordan. A picture from that trip was posted on The Royal Forums. And I do count the trips to London because an overwhelming share of them are personal. She rarely does engagements in London anymore.

I had actually forgotten about the France trip, thank you for reminding me. To be honest I was surprised by that because usually the JRF do not have so many holidays nor so close together. At the time I did wonder whether something else was up.

I can recall at least 2 trips to London where official work has taken place, 1 was a dinner for Arab women and another was some sort of seimnar.

Originally Posted by Adamari

May tends to be a busy month for the Jordanian royals due to the WEF. This is what I would prefer to see a typical month look like, but only with far more activities in Jordan than outside of it.

Well since January she has had trips to Morocco, the US, the UAE, France, Austria, Slovenia, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, the Netherlands, as well as hosting the Portuguese President and his wife, the IOC conference and Rania has launched the Madrasati Initiative which has resulted in quite a few trips in and around Jordan. Plus there was the Distinguished Teacher's award and various hospital visits.

Originally Posted by Adamari

Just because Parliament is in recess doesn't mean the politicians aren't working. They will spend that "down time" going to events in their constituencies to make sure voters remember who they are.

I cannot comment on Canada but here in the UK, the 76 day recess is notorious because that is precisely what many MP's do not do. I was pointing out that the summer months are quitet generally speaking; it is not as though the JRF are the only royal family to be out of the spotlight.

Originally Posted by Adamari

Other royals do take vacation in the summer but they also keep working like the rest of us mortals. They don't take the whole summer off. Not even Queen Elizabeth II. She might be in Scotland but she must deal with official papers every day.

You've almost debunked your own critique there. As you yourself have said it is perfectly plausible and probably very likely that Rania is in fact dealing with official business, like QEII.

Moreover the Jordanian Royals do not take the whole summer off.

Originally Posted by Adamari

I bet you she still does a lot of shopping. And I wonder if her comment isn't a little self serving when it comes to the issue of cost. I'm sure some of her evening gowns are freebies but I'm skeptical about her day clothes.

Considering how people constantly bring up the issue of cost regarding her clothes I actually thought it was very smart to dispel the myth that she spends vast sums of money on her wardrobe.

She tends to wear items in succession by certain designers so it seems perfectly logical to me at least those items were freebies. After all, she's a high-profile figure and people are interested in her clothes. Plus designers often give free clothes away to high profile figures because it works in their favour.

Originally Posted by Adamari

P.S. I don't know how to do the individual quotes so I have bolded my comments as they appear within the larger quote.

To do individual quotes write [quote then add the equals sign, then the poster's name and then close the brackets using this: ] There should be no spaces.
I hope that makes sense!

[GlitteringTiaras]

Yeah, um ... this is all incredibly fascinating, but can we focus on the specific topic here: QUEEN RANIA'S DAYTIME FASHION.
If not, head on over to this forum here. And continue the discussion.

Thank you.

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