Princess Beatrice of York Current Events 8: September-November 2007

[Roslyn]

Does anyone have a picture of Queen Victoria at her coronation so I can see how much they look alike?
Thanks

Here is a coronation portrait by Sully from 1838. http://www.wga.hu/art/s/sully/victoria.jpg

A Google image search using "Queen Victoria + coronation" yields a few pics, but most are not this large so therefore lack detail. There's a nice one in full regalia with her hair worn more in the style that Beatrice wore in the movie scene, but I haven't found a large version of it, and also a sketch of Queen Victoria dancing with Albert and wearing a dress that appears to me to be very similar to the one Beatrice was wearing. I will leave it to those with the benefit of broadband to do closer comparisons.

Here's another big one from about the same time. Rather pretty, too.
http://www.general-anaesthesia.com/images/queen-victoria.jpg

 

[Jo of Palatine]

I'm not sure about the resemblence - I mean: would we think about it if we didn't know that one lady was the ancestor of the other?

And another big BUt for me: Victoria has a very good deportment, the way she stands upright, holds her hands etc. Beatrice doesn't seem to know what to do with her arms and hands on these pics and for me this is more important for forming an opinion about a resemblence than the fact that both wear dresses from the Victorian age.

 

[Bella]

Here are some better pics from that party and the young lady in red

* Bea 1 ** Bea 2 ** Bea 3 *

Thanks, Ice. She can look very grown up. Sometimes I forget she's not even 20 yet. I hope she's not in too much of a hurry.

 

[Bella]

Beatrice has a fuller face than Queen V had as a young woman and in the portraits I've seen (thanks Roslyn) QV's eyes don't seem as protruding as they looked in actual photographs whereas we all know Pss B as very large eyes. I think the young Pss Anne looked more like QV as a young woman than Pss B does. B looks more like QV as she got older, if that makes any sense.

 

[Duchess]

while bea's prominent eyes could be a family trait, has she ever been diagnosed with graves disease (hypothyroidism)? this can also cause the eyes to "bulge" for lack of a better word. former american first lady, barbara bush has this.

 

[selrahc4]

The follwoing link has been posted several times before regarding Princess Beatrice's resemblance to Queen Victoria.

Young Victoria

 

[COUNTESS]

while bea's prominent eyes could be a family trait, has she ever been diagnosed with graves disease (hypothyroidism)? this can also cause the eyes to "bulge" for lack of a better word. former american first lady, barbara bush has this.

Grave's disease is hyperthyroidism.

 

[Duchess]

Grave's disease is hyperthyroidism.

thanks countess...i knew that but what i was asking was whether anyone knew whether or not her prominent eyes were the result of graves disease or just a family trait.

 

[Bella]

The follwoing link has been posted several times before regarding Princess Beatrice's resemblance to Queen Victoria.

Young Victoria

Yes, I've seen this pic before and thought how similiar. Thanks for posting it again, I had been trying to find it but couldn't.

 

[Bella]

thanks countess...i knew that but what i was asking was whether anyone knew whether or not her prominent eyes were the result of graves disease or just a family trait.

I believe Pss Beatrice's eyes are hereditary and not the result of a disease (which is a good thing). Many of her ancestors shared the round eyes.

 

[COUNTESS]

I don't think she has Grave's disease. I think they are inherited.

 

[jcbcode99]

She just has large eyes--it doesn't help any that whenever someone takes her picture she opens them up wider.

 

[zembla]

She looks just like her father, I think...

 

[prettyoix]

I think she have more of her mother, Eugenie is more like her father

 

[PR Princess]

I think Princess Beatrice of York looks a lot like her mother, especially with that red long hair.

 

[zembla]

Both girls seem to have a good mix...but the mouth area distracts me that's why I think father more...he has the same thing going on.

Fergie and Andrew kind of look like brother and sister...

 

[kaydura0717]

I've always noticed that after a couple or people in general are around each other for long they start developing the same mannerisms and maybe thats why they look similar.

 

[ysbel]

Victoria's early painted portraits were I believe more flattering than true to life which was the norm for an artist painting a sovereign Queen in those days. In the first photographs of Victoria taken only a few years later, I believe you can see her huge eyes quite clearly. So apparently the portrait painter took some creative license to flatter the Queen.

Its possible that Beatrice could have inherited some genes from Queen Victoria for her physical features but its impossible for her to inherit her posture and carriage from Victoria because posture is environmental unless it stems from a genetic disease.

Victorians had, as we may well guess, much more erect posture than the majority of modern men and women.

 

[iceflower]

Pics 11.10.2007

Beatrice and her boyfriend Dave on a night out in Picadilly, London,
11 October 2007 - she looked very lovely in my eyes with that
reduced style

* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 *

 

[Romy]

Thank you for the new pictures from this week, Iceflower!!!


I share your opinion, she looks very good, not overdresses
like she sometimes is and once again I felt she made a good
choice with that boyfriend, he seems to be the right partner
especially in this part of her young life

 

[iceflower]

Pics 12.10.2007

You're welcome, Romy I think Beatrice has some good (fashion) days
and some bad ones, the newest pics look like a bad day in my eyes - just my
first impression when looking at these pics , maybe some of you do have a
different opinion:
Princess Beatrice pictured with her boyfriend leaving the Boujis nightclub in
London at around 3 am. UK, 12 October 2007

* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 *

 

[blondie28]

No, I don't really have a different opinion.That dress is wat to low cut.

 

[Roslyn]

Not a good look, IMO. I have never liked that shade of blue with black, and the fact it's a shiny, satiny low-cut blue dress, worn with black stockings, makes it worse. It's just wrong.....but could have been made right if she'd worn an evening shawl in matching blue and black to link the colours. She seems a nice girl though, and I'm sure she tries to get it right.

 

[iceflower]

So I'm not the only one, blondie28 and Roslyn

Here are some pics of Bea taken on Friday, 12 Oct 2007,
when she went shopping in London together with a friend:

* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 *

 

[Skydragon]

some bad ones:
* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 **

Oh my, I think you can definitely class this outfit as a 'bad' one!

Pic 4 *

It doesn't seem to get much better, does it?

 

[magnik]

* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 *

She doesn't hear about dresses with the shoulder straps?

 

[blondie28]

So I'm not the only one, blondie28 and Roslyn

Here are some pics of Bea taken on Friday, 12 Oct 2007,
when she went shopping in London together with a friend:

* Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 *

What the heck is on Bea's head?

 

[zembla]

That blue dress she wore to Boujis is so slutacious...yowza...

 

[Roslyn]

What the heck is on Bea's head?

It's a tea cosy. Some little old lady must have knitted it for her. It almost matches the blue jeans and if it only had little crocheted pink flowers on it like the tea cosies my grandmother used to make, to match the flowers embroidered on the black top, it would have matched her outfit quite well!

*meow*

 

[almab]

An elegant exit for Beatrice and her Boujis beau | the Daily Mail

The article states that the blue beanie hat is the latest teen fashion craze. Let's hope it dies a natural death very quickly!