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There's a Reason You'll Never See Kate Middleton Wearing Red Nail Polish


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When it comes to setting trends while still keeping in mind classic royal traditions, Kate Middleton walks the line without crossing it. Her style is classic yet still very modern—hello, she loves the cold-shoulder look as much as we do. The duchess also loves to mix up her beauty look—ICYMI, she apparently changes her hair for each pregnancy—but we dare you to name a time you’ve seen Kate wearing red nail polish or coral on her fingers. Coming up blank? It turns out there’s a very specific reason why.

Marie Claire UK reported recently that only natural-looking nails are permitted at official royal events—which tend to be where and when photos of her get taken. That kind of explains why Queen Elizabeth II has been wearing the same shade of polish, Essie’s Ballet Slippers, since 1989. According to Essie, it’s “the only color Her Majesty would wear.” It is a cult classic, after all. And hey, if you know what you like…

Kate wore a similar, sheer pink shade on her wedding day. Her manicurist Marina Sandoval told the Daily Mail in 2011 that she mixed Bourjois Rose Lounge and Essie Allure to create the custom shade.

Prince Harry’s girlfriend and mostly-likely-soon-to-be-official fiancé, Meghan Markle, has also been spotted wearing natural nail shades when she’s out with Harry: at the Invictus Games, she had her nails painted with a sheer pinkish-white shade.

So why the no-bold-nail-polish rule in 2017? We love those shades, personally. But royals are expected to dress and behave according to strict, traditional codes—they can’t sign autographs, for example. And if it that’s the royal rule, we’ll respect it. The diamonds in Princess Diana’s tiara that Kate’s been known to wear make quite the statement anyway.

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Kate Middleton Just Made Her First Appearance Since Announcing Her Third Pregnancy


In early September, Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William announced they’re expecting a third child. “The Queen and members of both families are delighted,” read the official statement from the Royal Family, which is how the couple officially told the world their happy news.

The couple hasn’t revealed much else since making this announcement, though. We know the Duchess is experiencing morning sickness, as she did with her previous two pregnancies, and Prince William told a midwife on September 20 that he’d be seeing her “sooner” than she thinks, which led people to believe the Duchess’ due date is just around the corner. But that’s just speculation, of course.

What isn’t speculation, however, is that the Duchess made her first public appearance since announcing her pregnancy on Tuesday (October 10). She, along with Prince William and Prince Harry, hosted a Buckingham Palace reception honoring workers in the mental health field. She wore an effortlessly chic power blue dress with lacy sleeves and her hair down is flowing waves. Check out the video of her entrance into the event, below:

Mental health is a case close to the Duchess, Prince Harry, and Prince William’s hearts. In April, they released 10 powerful short films showcasing people from all walks of life speaking openly about their mental health—and, specifically, revealing who they first told about their struggles. You can watch them all, in full, here.

This appearance is coming off a news cycle dominated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose relationship has been meticulously documented and analyzed. The coverage was especially heavy at last week’s Invictus Games in Toronto, where Prince Harry and Markle held hands in public for the first time.

The Duchess is reportedly due next spring.

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This Kate Middleton Hair Conspiracy Actually Checks Out


In literally any single context, a photo of Kate Middleton is a gift. Her personal style is consistently classic and any slight change in her fashion or beauty choices is a delight to behold. And while the duchess is probably used to the constant level of speculation that comes with life in the public eye, it turns out she might just have a very public tell when she’s got big, personal news coming up. By which I mean, Middleton’s been secretly communicating with us this whole time, and we didn’t even know it. Personally, I’m honored.

First noticed by English political reporter Kate Proctor, there’s a highly interesting correlation between Middleton’s hair changes and her pregnancy announcements. Per Proctor’s tweet, Middleton’s basically been running a decoy operation: Every time she changes her hairstyle, people focus on it—and then, with the world paying more attention to her hair than her silhouette, the family announces the pregnancy at the time of their choosing.

The crazy thing is, the pattern’s in plain sight. Follow along…

On June 29 (about two months prior to the reveal), Middleton was making an official visit to London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Her hair looked great, if standard, with its long length and curled ends.

PHOTO: Max Mumby/Indigo

Then a few weeks later, on July 3, Middleton showed up to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships with hair freshly cut into midlength territory. Clearly, it looks gorgeous, with the ideal amount of lift at her roots and the just-slightly blunt ends. Very casual, but also incredibly chic (and on trend with the cuts every celebrity in Hollywood is getting right now). About a month later, we got the news: Baby number three is on the way.

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One cut doesn’t a pattern make, so let’s take a stroll to yesteryear. Before baby announcement number two, Middleton was making the rounds at the Tour de France on July 5, 2014. Truly, it’s a good thing her every move is documented so we can track this—it was business as usual with her chestnut brown curls.

The Duke & Duchess of Cambridge And Prince Harry Attend The Tour De France Grand Depart

PHOTO: Max Mumby/Indigo

And then a month later, at the Tower of London on August 5, a hair change. This one is the most subtle, but as some publications pointed out, Middleton at the time was embracing her roots. Cue media fervor, because that’s a huge event (sigh). Then, just over another month later on September 8, the royal palace announced that Charlotte was coming to bless us all.

Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge And Prince Harry Visit Tower Of London's Ceramic Poppy Field

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Intentional? That one’s your call, but here’s where the trend really comes together. The day was November 8, 2012; the place, a benefit dinner for her and Prince William’s alma mater, the University of St. Andrews. Eight months into her life as a duchess, Middleton by that point was well-known for her coiffed, shiny brown curls. The baby rumors had started up, but nothing was confirmed.

The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Attend A Dinner At Temple Inn

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Flash forward to November 27, and the world received huge news: Middleton had gotten bangs, and they were fabulous. The world was so fully focused on her hair that when the royal family announced they were expecting, on December 3, it was straight out of the blue.

The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge Make An Official Visit To Cambridge

PHOTO: Indigo

So we’re left to wonder: Is she doing this on purpose as a crazy-smart distraction tactic? Or (and I’m leaning toward this one), is it that Middleton knows she’ll be in the spotlight nonstop soon, so she merely preps for the frenzy? It could go either way. The royal family is notoriously tight-lipped, so it’s not likely the palace is going to cop to anything anytime soon. But forever and always, we’ll take any royals insight we can get.

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Kate Middleton & Prince William Win Over $100,000 Over Topless Photos


The verdict is in: Two French gossip publications will have to pay up after publishing topless photos of Kate Middleton.

Back in 2012, the French magazine Closer and the local newspaper La Provence published photos taken with with telephoto lenses of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless with Prince William at a chateau in France. Closer‘s headline translated to “Oh My God: the photos that will go around the world.” Sure enough, the photos spread to other European publications—despite the couple’s getting an injunction against their further use.

After the photos came out, William and Catherine sued Closer‘s editor and owner and the photographers who took the pictures—who were part of a celebrity photo agency—for violation of privacy. Five years later, they’ve now been awarded 100,000 euros ($118,000) in damages by a French court—significantly less than the 1.5 million euros they asked for.

The Closer executives were each fined 45,000 euros ($53,000)—the maximum fine—and Catherine and William each got 50,000 euros ($59,000) from the executives and photographers.

Closer’s lawyer, Paul-Albert Iweins, argued at a hearing in May that “the public and private lives of the royal couple are so closely linked as to be inseparable” and “it’s of public interest to know that future heirs to the throne have a solid relationship and are getting on well.”

In a letter read by his lawyer during the same hearing, Prince William said the scandal was “particularly shocking because it reminded us of the harassment that led to the death of my mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.” (Princess Diana died in a car accident after her vehicle was chased by photographers in Paris.)

Soon after the photos were published, St. James’s Palace said in a statement that they represented a “grotesque and totally unjustifiable” invasion of privacy. It continued, “The incident is reminiscent of the worst excesses of the press and paparazzi during the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, and all the more upsetting to the Duke and Duchess for being so.”



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