Recent content by Susanna Wynne

It appears to me that "the bottom line" is this: Andrew is not particularly popular with the British media and public; Sarah is... well, we all know where Sarah stands with public and media opinion. The York girls, who appear to be nice, well-meaning girls, cannot escape being the children of...

Her Majesty is barely 5'3" and Kate is 5'10, or so I have read; at the very least, she is quite tall. Unlike The Queen, Catherine does not need to worry about wearing bright colors "in order to be seen." She will always be seen, no matter what she wears. And last year in Canada and the US...

As for her hair, Lumutqueen, I believe it takes Kate a good deal of work and time, in the salon and out, to maintain. To postulate that wearing her hair down is a sign of laziness is disrespectful and unkind, as well as untrue.

Picky, picky. How about overlooking small unimportant details and focus on the incontrovertible fact that she looks amazing!

I'm with you, Mirabel! She may love her daughters, but that fact doesn't guarantee she will act with good sense where they are concerned, as her past behaviour has shown.

I think the coat is sheepskin, ideal for very cold weather.

Mary of Denmark Duchess of Cambridge

British and Danish families

Earl Percy Hi Kyle: To your question about Earl Percy and why he is not the Earl of Percy. Percy is his family's (ancient) surname and like Diana's brother, the Earl Spencer, when the family surname is used, the "of" is dropped. By contrast, the Earl of Carnarvon is George Herbert, Herbert...

Spectacular Crown Princess Mary The white outfit, the black with grey outfit are amazing on her! When I think that she gave birth to four children in less than six years and on the brink of 40 looks incredible. She is intelligent, active, beautiful, has a wonderful smile, is very stylish...

Catherine as Role Model On the contrary, CasiraghiTrio, if one looks back at her childhood, sporting activities, academic performance and her university career, she could be a role model for many young people. And she pulled off a wonderful, understated yet fabulous royal wedding, one that...

Catherine's Slow Start as a Royal To those who question whether Catherine's "slow" start as a royal is sanctioned by the Queen and her advisor's, among other press reports, I found this from Richard Palmer's blog: "She (Kate) and William have taken advice from the Queen and Prince Philip, who...

My point, Lumutqueen, is that it doesn't matter how different Diana and Catherine are to me or to you, it is what the Queen and her advisors think. THEY are the ones who are determined that Catherine will have a slower and better introduction to the activities of being a royal than Diana did...

A Positive Perspective Lumutqueen, I may indeed be an American, but by descent am British and Welsh, and feel a deep kinship born of both interest and DNA with the British royal family. So it does affect me, and it also affects everyone who sees the monarchy as a bastion of tradition and as...

Diarist: Thank you for this interesting, important and in-depth discussion of how things really work at and through BP! It is, by this time, a highly sophisticated operation -- and ever so subtle, yet able to put the pressure on anyone at anytime. We are being very naive if we don't realize...