Best in Annual Events
Princess Letizia
Video: The 2013 Prince of Asturias Awards ceremony
Each year, the Asturias couple head to Oviedo for a couple days of engagements surrounding the big show, the Prince of Asturias Awards. It almost always ends up being one of Letizia's sartorial highlights of the year, and 2013 is no different - look at her, all sparkly and green! Like a tasteful Christmas tree come two months early.
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| Asturias Awards events |
I mean, I could have done without the 1980s flashback tuxedo-dress, but on the whole - a good week in LetiziaLand.
Best in Returns
The Duchess of Cambridge
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| At a charity dinner |
Ooh, this is lovely. I know many of you will cry out for a necklace here, but I actually think it's styled perfectly for this occasion - add a necklace and you'll need to pull the hair back or up, but the dress works well with the cascading locks she loves so much. Welcome back to the fray, Kate.
Best of the Rest
Crown Princess Victoria
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| Victoria at a meeting and at a formal gathering for the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; Mathilde finishing up her visits around the country with her husband; Máxima with her husband in Greece |
That blue dress, which we've seen before, is just so elegant on Victoria, I'm not even mad at her for not wearing a tiara (it's not a tiara event, despite the otherwise extremely formal dress code). Besides, someone else got their tiaras out last week, so I'll live. Read to the end for that...
A (Dis?)Honorable Mention to...
This Dress, AGAIN
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| Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Kate in 2012; Alexandra of Luxembourg in September and Madeleine just this past week |
I'm starting to get mad at this dress and it's not even poor Madeleine's fault. There are two different designers here, Jenny Packham and Tadashi Shoji, yes - but come on, same difference. I loved it at first and now all I can ask is: Are we done yet? (On another note, Madeleine will be in attendance at this year's Nobel Awards! Huzzah for maternity tiara fashion! Please don't let it be another version of this dress.)
Plus an Honorable Mention to...
The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Video: Guillaume and Stéphanie have an audience with the Pope
I don't cover Stéphanie here as much as some of you would like, but there's no denying the girl can wear a veil.
Speaking of cool things to put on your head (segue, nailed it), time for that little
Tiara Watch I promised.
The Norwegian royal family hosted a gala for parliament and Queen Sonja busted out
her mega emerald set. I'm entranced by the movement or perhaps lack of movement of her skirt -
click here for video, the royal party enters at 10:38 (including Haakon and the King - and Haakon, yes). And Princess Astrid was in attendance, dutifully wearing the
largest tiara at her disposal, her turquoise diadem, as though trying to do whatever she could to make up for the family being down a tiara-wearer in Crown Princess Mette-Marit's absence. Bless.
Who was your best dressed last week?
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