If they’re going to name the kid after the queen, they should’ve gone with Betty. Archie and Betty, a natural pairing.

Because she’s still their grandmother and they love her. Acknowledging someone’s faults so you don’t repeat them doesn’t mean that you stop loving them.

They’ve been pretty clear from the beginning that their beef isn’t with the Queen. It’s with the British press, the people in the palace working behind the scenes and…

Probably the same reason as all the other things and times he’s given these mixed signals (“they’re prisoners trapped in a cage, but I still love them. They wouldn’t help me at my lowest or while my wife was viciously bullied, but we’ll reconcile one day”). Genuine love, stockholm, cynical protection of whatever…

I’ll back you up in that I think Lilibet is not a great name and it’s weird to name your child after someone you have conflicted feelings over. I mean, they could be doing the “Albus Severus” route in that they’re acknowledging those conflicted feelings but it’s still yikes. If they’re done with the royals, there’s no…

I’m going to get reamed for this, but what the hell: Granted, those are lovely names, but why in the world would they name their child after (“in honor of?”) someone who Harry accused of inflicting generational pain just a while ago (the Queen/Philip-to Charles-to-Harry)? I don’t get that.

At least they pressed it. The original pictures looked like it was shoved at the bottom of the closet and Diana decided to wear it. (Yeah, I know, it’s a *lot* of dress to be crammed into a coach, but come on! Look at how horribly wrinkled it is in that picture of her with Charles!)

The whole world thought she was a virgin on her wedding day but apparently that was part of the Palace “sell.” Diana had sexual partners from the time she was a teen, she and Charles had slept together before their wedding, and so on. The whole sacrificial lamb narrative never gets any less sinister. I actually find…

It’s so enormous—like it was designed specifically to smother and entrap Diana so she couldn’t get away.

She was not an unsophisticated country girl. The Spencer family is arguably older than the Windsor family she married into. Her father was the 8th Earl of Spencer. She had connections to and associated with the royal family from birth, basically.

Puffed sleeves. Like Anne of Green Gables! 

I don’t know about the behind the scenes politicking and I don’t want to know, but they would have had to put her in a smocked dress with a peter pan collar and a cardigan to infantilize her more effectively. 

The fact that it will “come back into style” doesn’t make it any less ugly to my eye. I’m old enough to remember the 80s the first time around, and that shit was ugly then and it will continue to be ugly no matter the number of times it spirals back.

OMG! It does! It looks like the click bait paid articles: website vs. reality.

I agree with all that you say with the exception of that horrific dress. It will never be admired. Not 30 years from now. Not 100 years from now. And I have seen a lot of fashion come round again due to being around for so long. I understand that they felt she needed something very grand due to the nature of the event…

Laura Ashley on speed! I was a teenager in the 80's and this dress was awful to me then... also, I was SUPER creeped out by their age difference and all the attention paid to her virginity. Gross.

I beg to disagree. I was also a teenager at the time, and the love for that dress was by no means universal. I hated the dress, big time, and a lot of people did. Yes, some people adored it, and my closest friend (I didn’t know her then, but we talk about it now) loved that dress and had her engagement ring modelled…

I remember thinking that dress was such a wrinkled mess when she got out of the carriage. For years people praised that dress as so “royal” and perfect. I am so glad to find other commenters that agree.

Is it Haunted?

oh no. 

Dear God, that dress is hideous.