Beatrice and Eugenie Ascot Outlook

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This episode is brought to you by Prime. What if you had one more chance with the one that got away. Sam, you came home. Based on the best selling novel from Carly Fortune. Every year after follows childhood friends, Sam and Percy, as they reunite in the dreamy, nostalgic lakeside town of Ferry's Bay. Love can be hard to find. So if you're lucky enough to find that person, never let go a second chance at first love every year after, now streaming only on Prime . Her husband's at partingy while she is ill in bed. Is Princess Beatrice's relationship with Ed o in trouble? Are her and her sister Eugenie being manipulated by ex Prince Andrew in a desperate attempt by him to hang on to his status, did Andrew bully them into making an appearance at Harriet and Peter's wedding? Will they really show up at Royal Asker? And where did Beatrice and Edo go from here . Yes, well, hello, I'm Tom Sykes. This is the Royalist and I am thrilled to be back with you today. You'll have to excuse the backdrop I'm travelling, I'm in London, trying to finish my book, trying to get stuck into an action packed week for the Royals, which we're going to be getting into . And we're going to be joined by Plum Sykes , giving us a preview of Royal Ascot. So stay with us and without further ado , let's get into today 's Royal Rundown . So here's what's coming up on today's show . First, we've got the Royal News Update .roop Ting the colour on Saturday, a fabulous spectacle. I hope you all watched it on television and saw the pictures. It was a glorious day, but it wasn't all cheers. There were a few sneers too. I was there and I'm going to tell you everything , including Princess Catherine's very stern look at some protesters . Then it will be time for tea with Tom , and I'm delighted to say that none other than the mighty Paul of Frol ick is back with me to discuss Princess Beatrice and Eddo's marriage. Charlotte Griffiths has gone big again on this story in the Mail on Sunday. We're going to be talking about what's really going on . And thirdly, folks, this week, an absolutely special edition of Royal Fashion with Plum Sykes. Plum Sykes on Royal Askat. It kicked off today, Tuesday. We'll be talking dress codes , enclosures , car parks, champagne , badges, high heels, shoes , block colors , and of course Beatrice and Eugenie. So without any wasting of time , let's get into our Royal News update Now I'm going to be talking about Trooping the Colour, which was this weekend. It is the King's official birthday parade. And as you can see from all these fantastic photographs that you'll be watching . If you're watching us on YouTube, if you're watching listening on the audio platforms, you'll have to allow me to paint a picture for you with words, but it was a fantastic , fantastic day on Saturday. It was the perfect English summer's day , blue skies , everybody in a good mood and of course interestingly, taking place the day before Donald Trump 's ATF on Sunday. Quite a difference. In the White House, there was a cage fight in Buckingham Palace, there was a thousand year tribute to history and pomp and circumstance. So I was here. I'm in London for a couple of weeks. As I say, it was a beautiful day . I went there to watch it all unfold and it all went without a hitch. Well almost because there was a pocket of protesters from Republic , the anti monarchy campaign group who turned up with umbrellas , which I thought was very odd because it wasn't raining. And when royals went by them, they opened their umbrellas and they had spelled out stop the rain. Hah a very funny. And of course, for usual, not my saints, not my king signs dotted about . Okay , fine. You want to protest, you want to protest. That's part of the beauty of the country in which we live. You can go ahead and do that . But rudeness, my friends, is another thing . And they were caught booing and they booed at Catherine and her children when they drove past in the carriage, which I think frankly just made them look pathetic. And I just think that booing children is not a very good myself. And personally, I think plenty of people have quite a lot of sympathy with Republic and think that the monarchy should be abolished or should be reformed. I mean, I don't, but it's a valid position to hold if you can argue it politely. And I don't think that booing children is the way to go. And I tell you someone else who didn't think it's the way to go Princess Catherine , who gave them a absolutely what the Queen used to Paddington Bear used to call a hard stare , which the Queen was an expert in delivering a hard stare. And Catherine gave them a very, very hard stare indeed. And I have to say, good for her because I just think it's one thing to be opposed to the policy. It's another thing to take it out personally on some kids, you know? So anyway, moving on King Charles . I thought he looked . Actually, maybe a little bit looked a little bit exhausted by the time we got up to the balcony later in the day, but earlier in the day. And it's a long day actually because they kind of start at ten thirty and the fly past isn't till one and they are on parade the whole time. They are on view the whole time. It was pretty hot in the sunshine. So I thought that King Charles looked pretty good. You know, he's an old er chap. He's fighting cancer doing brilliantly . I thought he looked great with Camilla by his side. He took the salute. He's the colonel in chief of the household division . The trooping the color , well, we'll get into the history a bit in a minute, but the guy the fellows in the red jackets, the soldiers in the red jackets are called the guards, there's seven regiments of guards, the lifeguards, the horse guards, the Irish guards, the Welsh guards, the Scots guards, the cold stream guards, which my grandfather was a member of and they are effectively the ceremonial they are the part of the army that performs ceremonial duties. They are also fighting regiments. They are not like just strictly ceremonial. Unlike the red arrows who fly over the top, right? They're the acrobatic core the RAF. They are strictly just the acrobatic corps. They are not a fighting regiment at all . The guards are a bit different . Credibility and their legacy and their history is as fighting regiments. And also Prince of Wales, of course, was there with the three children, George, Charlotte and Prince Louis . As we mentioned , they gave a unimpressed look to the protesters from Republic. And Louis, of course, irrepressible energy on the balcony where he never disappoints, does he? Catherine looks amazing in this in her lovely blue outfit. William in his full ceremonial dress. I really felt that the day it just hit all the marks. It was like you could have just taken a video from any point over the past one hundred years when it was a nice day and replayed it on television. It was exactly the same. That's the whole point. The mass bands, the precision drilled, the thundering hooves, the crowd surging down the mall , the red white and blue contrails from the REF fly past. It was it was just it was a really good day . And I think what's so interesting about the tree of the colour and then we have Aska obviously this week , it's the big kind of ceremonial events of the summer. Now trad,itionally what, used to happen was that immediately after Asca, the Queen would abscond for about four months to Balmoral and literally wouldn't be seen again. Now they don't quite do that anytime these times. But there's a sense of end of term. There's a sense of the end of term party about it. And they will also sneak out the royal accounts usually around this time when there's a lot of good feeling and nice pictures of the royals. And when the Royals important are getting to write the narrative because so often the narrative is being written about them. It's just everybody picking up on stories and what's happening and this and that and the other. These are the trooping the color particularly is the occasion where they get set the agenda, they get to set the timetable and it of course also anchors the sovere into the military traditions, which is so important for the royal family that give it its legitimacy and credibility. The king is the head of the armed forces . The royal family, as I would often emphasize , is str uctured along military lines, right? You have to follow orders and ask questions later. You have to do what you're told. Of course, that was the thing that Prince Harry and Meghan found themselves ultimately unable to accept. It's been used to mark the sovereign's birthday since seventeen forty eight . Every monarch has maintained the tradition of having this second official birthday on the second Saturday of June. The parade takes place on Horse Guards parade in Whitehall, which right in the middle of ceremonial London, it's the old jousting fields, which is like a huge parade ground. Look, this was definitely a good day for the firm. It was definitely a day where they get to write the script. They get to set the narrative. And despite all the scandals , everything 's been going on these past couple of years, it was a really good reminder . I thought of what they do well and how well they do when they did it . The monarchy at its best is a spectacle and on Saturday I, thought that they absolutely delivered. This episode is brought to you by Redfin. You're listening to a podcast, which means you're probably multitasking . Maybe even scrolling homeless on Redfin , saving homes without expecting to get them. But Redfin isn't just built for endless browsing. It's built to help you find and own a home. With agents who close twice as many deals, when you find the one, you've got a real shot at getting it. Get started at redfin. com the dream . Is anyone in need of refreshment ? It's time for tea with Tom with my old chum, Paula Frolic . Yes, well it's now time for tea with Tom and I am only delighted to welcome back my old chum Paula Frolic who, has by the looks of things successfully moved apartment. Paula, we'll get into your interior decoration in a moment, but first of all, Princess Beatrice and Eduardo, trouble in paradise I think so, Tom , you know, she called him her rock, but here's the problem. If you've got a rock, you would think that the rock would stick around in stormy weather . But he's been in and out and in and out all year , you know, going back and forth to the States and then they took a lovely fun, romantic trip to Santrope at the invite of their friend Gabrielle Peacock , and she got sick. So what did her rock do? Well , he left her in bed and went out and parted with Gabriella, Amanda Holden, and Piers Morgan , because nothing says I love you and I'm here for you for through health and illness than partying . No, it certainly doesn't. And partying with Piers Morgan, oh my goodness, one slightly wonders what Harry and Meghan are going to make of it all. Now I would point out that the Royalists did actually cover this last week because we saw Pears basically posted an Instagram snap and he didn't tag Edo, but you could see Ed o in it. Charlotte Griffiths, of course , the social editor at the Mail On Sunday, very well plugged in, very well connected, a good friend of Prince Harry's, as we saw in the Daily Mail trial, of course Griffiths is known to kind of have good contacts in this lane. And of course, this is the USP of the mail on Sunday as these call sort of weapons grade high, society contacts, I suppose. But she's been on this for a while, hasn't she, Paula? I mean, it does seem there is some genuine marital difficulty here connected really as a sort of proxy aspect of the whole Andrew scandal . Absolutely. And I think Ed o is kind of looking at Beatrice and saying no , do not have contact with your father. Don't go around him because of course, as we've seen in the past , she is very close to him and has always been the one who's run to his side and her mother's side to be like, is everything okay? Let me try to make this better. And he has successfully kept her away from it, but not so much for familial reasons. I think it's much more to do with his own business, which the interior design, which has of course taken off since he left his ex, Darra Wang and immediately hooked up with Beatrice . And the design business has now made millions, and it is also many think because the royal connections. So of course, he's saying, Don't go there, don't go near your father. He's toxic , and my business will fail. But then again, at the same time, Tom, you know, what did they need the money for? They're living for free off of lovely uncle Charlie . Yes, and so it's been a really interesting few days in the kind of Beatrice and Eugenie subplot of the royal family because we've seen the weekend before this one , we saw them arriving at the church service the wedding of Peter and Harriet. Of course, by the time this goes out, we will know if they have attended the first day of Aska. We are recording this on Monday. Royal Aska kicks off tomorrow, and we're going to be talking about that with plum sites in more detail later . But we will know a bit more potentially then. But there was this fascinating story, wasn't there, Paula in the, the mail at weekend saying that Andrew basically was the puppet master who had told Beatrice and Eugenie to go to the wedding , to go with their heads held high, to make a big entrance, which I must say made a lot of sense to me because I was told the week before the wedding that they were very uncertain about going and really, you know, were having real second thoughts about it . But then the way they showed up , whereas everybody else was just dropped at the front door , Beatrice and Eugenie actually met at a friend's house in the village and then walked for five minutes through the village to make sure that every photo was captured. Of course we saw that awful picture, didn't we of Eugenie being hugged by Mia Tyndall and kind of really checking that she was being photographed by the camera . I mean it',s just they've got themselves into a bit of a mess, I feel. The Royal Family are in a mess about it and Beatrice and Eugenie are in a mess about it because the whole thing is just incredibly awkward now is,n't it? If they do show up if they, don't show up , I mean, what did you make of that whole story at the weekend saying that it was Andrew, who's the puppet master telling them to sort of preserve the York family name? I mean, I'm not shocked by it. That was an Andrew move . You know, look at the last couple royal things that Andrew did . You know, the funeral that he went to was like, Hey, William, let's hang out. William gave him the cut direct ion. And you know, he's very much one of those no, no, no, you're still a York . You are still, even though they're not, technically, I guess, with the titles taken away . Can you still be a York if your father who have the title originally is not a York anymore . But it's definitely very odd. But they also you and I have talked about this before . Their identity is in their title and their family connections , period . And they are there to remind everybody hello, we're here. This is who we are. This is our family . So no, it was not shocking at all. I tipped a little bit of a hat to William who gave, you know, the sisters a kiss, hello and then just walked away . It was very much like family unity, we're okay. Next, look over there . It is very much a York family trait though. To come out and remind everybody, hello, we're so here. And frankly, it's one that I think Harry and Meghan would love when he comes to England this summer in about what? Three weeks , they need to be seen as still part of the family because that is where their cache is, same for their cousins, beatriss and Eugenie. Yeah . And that kiss as well was obviously much compared to Fredo, the kiss of Fredo and Godfather Two , because it sort of whilst the kiss was taking place, William's team was simultaneously briefing the Sunday Times that Beatrice and New Junior needed to get out of the apartments and this situation wasn't going to be allowed to persist, et cetera, et cetera. You make a really interesting point about can their title survive their father being stripped of his title? And I mean the plan at the moment, as we understand is yup, you know, their roles are going to be completely unaffected. But of course it makes the complete nonsense of the hereditary principle. If you're going to say that there is a hereditary principle, if you're going to say that there is divine right, which I mean, I know they don't say explicitly, but they do still believe that, it just seems crazy to me to suggest that you can break the link in the chain, but the titles that hang from that link are unaffected. And the other thing that I think about it, Paula, why I think that actually in the end, all of the titles will go from the entire York family and their children, whether it's under Charles or it's under William, but in the end it will go. I think actually the precedent is there because when Edward VIII abdicated , he had to in his abdication statement , he gave up his title for him and all his heirs forever. Now, of course, they got a lucky break in that he never had children. Him and Wallace never had children , but it seems to me like I just when I see Beatrice and Eugenie, I'm just immediately reminded of their dad and what their dad got up to, especially for their involvement in the Middle East and all these sort of murky financial networks and all the mentions and the episode. I'm just like, it's time guys. I mean, I'm sorry that, you know, the sins of the parents should not be visited on the children . But at the same time , like just in terms of what kind of image you're trying to present to the world, it just seems like a massive mistake to me to have Beatrice and Eugenie run. And also it seems like it makes them gigantic hostages to fortune because it's by no means guaranteed that nothing is ever going to emerge about Beatrice and Eugenie, right? Yeah. No, but it's all there's a couple things I want to say about that, Tom. Number one , think about when the Duke of Windsor abdicated , right? The queen , or the queen was the princess then , but his brother then King George was being advised by I believe it was Winston Churchill who was quite smart and very could see furthest down the line. So of course he said no and their children should they have any will not have any titles . The queen when she was dealing with Harry and Meghan, was not being advised so well by perhaps the people in power in the UK and not to get political. But then you go on to Princess's Beatrice and Eugenia and you just think , Geez , can't anybody in this family just say, Pull a queen Margaret , no more titles, but we can be family . How about that? If you've ever blasted synth beads from your boom box or burn seed bees for your besties , this one's for you. As people get older, much like their music tastes, their health needs change. Age one is the simple daily health drink designed to deliver over se venty five essential daily nutrients in pre and probiotics to support energy, digestion, and mood. So you can make the most out of every decade, and dance break. Learn more at drinkag ne dot com . Yeah , it's really interesting and as you know, Paula, I'm actually writing a book at the moment and Edward VIII is part of it. And it's a really interesting comparison that you make there about how it was explicitly stated when Edward VIII abdicated him and his heirs were cut out forever. Wallace, of course, didn't get an HRH a great source of aggravation and resentment to them for the rest of their lives . But I think in a sense what the queen didn't expect the queen kind of relied too much on sort of everyone was going to do the right thing. And I think that actually George V 's letters patent, which specify that if you are the grandson of a reigning monarch, you are entitled to a prince or princess title. I mean, I don't think that when George V sat that letters patent was done actually to reduce the number of royals, the number of HRHs in circulation. And I just don't think anyone realistically thought that this couple at that stage, I just don't think anyone thought that they were going to invoke these letters patent, you know, when they were living in another country on the other side of the world that's a republic having said that they hate everybody and they were leaving the Royal family and the institution was unfeeling and corrupt and evil. And you're right, the Queen was very naive, frankly, throughout the all the negotiations and they didn't nail it down. And they also of course made another massive mistake when they didn't actually nail down taking away the HRHs from Harry and Meghan. They just said they were agreeing not to use it. They will not use it. But we've seen Meghan using that and we know that she's still using it for herself privately, for the children privately , which brings me back to this story at the weekend saying that Andrew is demanding that his staff still refer to him by his proper titles and he's saying that he will do that until they send vampires to suck the last drop of royal blood from my veins. I mean, the arrogance and entitlement of this man is astounding But are you shocked ? This is this guy, first of all, he's very lucky he has any staff left considering the majority of them when he moved from the Royal Lodge to the far and I say that as in wood and marsh , most of them were saying, heck no. I don't want to have to rearrange those teddies anymore while he sneers and screams at me. You know, this is not this is not the plum position that perhaps some people thought it might be when they first joined Royal Lodge. And now he's, you know, beggars can't be choosers, but of course , Andrew's just never a beggar and always a chooser. Does it matter if someone's told him otherwise? And of course he wants to be called sir. He probably has people bow to him all the time. And it's just ridicul ous. I mean, the guy doesn't know any better. It's almost as if he's entered a second or third bizarre dimension in his little mind. I mean, I just wonder if he's out in the little RV play ing popper just for fun like he was a couple months ago . Janelle, I've got to tell you something really exciting. I am about this I'm about this far away from getting a copy of the Teddy Bear Map, the original Teddy Bear Map. I don't believe I don't believe you and I'll tell you why because you told me this six months ago and I've been waiting for it ever since . I mean, I have to tell you if your source is in London, I'm coming in about week. I will hunt down your source . Did it hole in a sake give him to give it to Tom . I need the teddy map . I need the teddy map. I've got to have the teddy map. Give me the teddy map. By the way, Doug wants the teddy map . We all want the teddy map . I want to range Jug's toys in the position of the teddy map . Couldn't he get one of those teddies that you pull the string and it goes, Yes, Your Majesty. Yes, Your Majesty . By the way , what a genius idea. They should just have that everywhere. Would he, you know, make it a smart home , a smart farm where every room he walks into, I love your majesty because AI can treat him the way he'd like to be treated . Paula, as always , an absolute delight to be with you. I can't stop giggling. It's so much fun. Paula , how's the new tell us very quickly how the flat looks amazing, the apartment looks amazing and beautiful lobster picture in the background there. It looks stunning. Well done. Thank you friend. It was difficult but I did it and who , I'm here. I'm very excited and if anyone has any hints or suggestions , they can contact me on my substack po lyfrolic uncensored . And you also have a new show on News Nation, I believe. I do . The scoop with Paula Frolic it comes out every Tuesday and Thursday . I think everyone's going to be Paula overl oaded. Well, congratulations. It couldn't have happened to a nicer person or everyone in the community is absolutely thrilled for you. Congratulations. Paula Frolick, thank you so much for being with me. Thank you friend. Okay guys , now it's the moment that you've all been waiting for. She's fabulous and she's back. It's plums royal fashion. Well folks, it's Royal Aska today we've actually recorded this in advance . Plum Sykes fashion expert is going to be there for the Royal Ass but, she's delighted I'm delighted to say that she's able to join us now to tell us all about what to look out for at Royal Ascot. Plum, you're actually going today slash tomorrow. Yeah , I am going this week, I am going this week. And what I feel, Tom is the thing about Ask it is it's about a strategy . It's about having a plan. And I'm not just talking about clothes . I'm talking about absolutely , who you're going with, how you're getting there. What badge do you have , right? Which enclosure are you in? Which tent are you in even down to car park are you in ? Because number one car park has far higher status than any other car park there and it's actually impossible to get a ticket to number one car park. Even yours truly could not get a ticket to the number one car park . So I have to park somewhere called something like Aska B two and walk to number one car park, which is actually not even really a car park. It's where people have glamorous picnics . So maybe a few people can park in them. I'm not entirely sure , but I'm going to a lunch party in number one car park. Sounds so unglamorous, but it's really glamorous because guess what I'm going with? You're going to have to tell me Prince William's third cousin. Third cousin . Why nothing? I know it's spectacular. I'm really impressed with my garbage. I'm very impressed. So I've been invited by she's called Daisy Natchable and Natchball's, as you know, Tom, are part of the Mount Batten line of royals . And Lady Pamla , Hicks, which she called who was telling about Mountbatten died actually last week and there was a very grand funeral at the weekend with all the royals looking really chic, I might add. Anyway, so I'm going with Daisy Nashbalt, who's got this incredible tailoring brand. She's like the biggest women's tailor on Savile Row, which is pretty incredible. So I'm going with her. She's got a really chic table . But the rest of the strategy, once you've got the parking sorted, once you start in the traffic jam, for four hours , four hours for the two or three miles to get from Light Windsor to Ascot, whatever it is, then it's the clothing and the shoes . So where do you want to start, Tom ? Well , I think we have to start with Her Majesty the Queen, of course, who turned up at Ask er looking impeccable. Always in the sort of block color Angela Kelly, didn't she? And the queen, of course, would always wear very comfortable, sensible flat shoes, I think. Is that something you'll be emulating? So actually after last year when I wore high heeled spike heeled stilettos which broke in the grass because I kept thinking in and which gave me honestly blisters like knives were chopping at my feet . I'm wearing loafers Tom. I'm wearing a pair of loafers. So I'm wearing a pale blue suit and flat cream loafers because I just can't take it anymore. And I do think that the real pros that Askirt , you kind of can spot them because they're dressed a bit more relaxed, a bit more comfortable. You still have to look really, really, really smart, okay? But if you wear spike heeled pointer stilettos like I did last year, you're just an agony stoat. You're right. The queen always wore like block heeled plump pumps, which I think she got from somewhere like Faragamo which has the and princess Anne always the same. Catherine Princess Catherine wears wears um high she wears a lot of high heels I don't know how she manages it, but they're block heels and they're from Jan Vito Rossi in case anyone wants to know or the other brand that she's worn quite a lot is Jennifer Chamandi, who is in Mayf , who is the only shoakeer m in London who I know who will make a couture shoe, which means that they will make a last for you for your foot and they will make a shoe out of the same fabric as your dress if you really want them to. So that's pretty amazing . So she just st toicks a couple of shoe brands, but the queen, as you say, block color head to toe. And actually, when you look at the pictures of the queen in that block color, and sometimes you might think or at least I would think go,sh , it's a bit uncool, right? To wear all bright red or all bright yellow . But then when you look at people who are wearing multiple different colors , right at Asker, for example, like Eugenie and Beatrice where they do a green hat with a purple dress . It looks very , very heavy and messy and over the top . And interestingly, Princess Catherine also only really wears one color or maximum two colors. So she'll wear a hasten a dress and shoes that are same color or one or two. So navy and white is the two colors that she'll mix. Cream with a little bit of brown, she might mix those two . And I absolutely loved when she wore this , I think it was in twenty twenty three. She wore this brown spotted dress by, I think it was designed by Alessandra Rich and it was so like the dress the cream dress with the brown spots that Princess Diana had worn in the late eighties looks absolutely amazing. But again, she's sticking to a neutral one color . She also wore I, think my favorite ascot outfit that Princess Catherine's worn has been the Alexander McQueen cream lace dress with a pale cream hat with like lacy feathers and things on top. Really really beautif ul, really simple . And it kind of just goes show, just keep it simple. Don't make it too complicated, don't be too clever . Otherwise you look too much. And the other thing is, Tom, when you get outside of the Royal Enclosure at Asker, which is, you know, the sheet pot, it's a bit like a VIP members club, right? You have to get a badge to go into the Royal Enclosure, and the badge has your name on it and when they send you the form to say what's your title for the badge ? I have to say Mrs and I really wish I could have said the Duchess, the count , whatever. So they're all walking around. Everyone's got, you know, instead of like a conference where it says Mr. Bloggs, it says The Duchess of Kent or Viscountess Vosomere or the Marchness of So and so and so and so and so . You know, so you feel belittled all the time at Asker. Everyone feels insecure because there's always someone more grand. And then what's quite funny is you've got these really, really grand ladies with the badges, but then of course who's the absolute grand est tom, the Saudis ? Like when you see the Saudis and the Wives and what they wear and the way the Saudi men dress for the race is oh my god, unbelievable. They so're smart, they're so rich. They're so smart . And you know, because it is sort of the most expensive sport in the world flat racing. It's really beautiful actually. Yeah, no, it'll certainly be a wonderful day and the weather's looking very promising, which is great Do you hear that? Sounds like breakfast is ready . Because Quakers coming in hot with morning nutrition . one hundred percent whole grain oats and a good source of fiber to fuel the rhythm of your morning and kick start your day and that sounds absolutely delicious . Fuel to start whatever's next. Quaker, official sponsor of FIFA World Cup twenty six. Oh let's go . There's a lovely photograph, aren't it? If you go back in time a bit. It's an interesting way to sort of take the temperature of the fashion, look at fashion through the ages. I mean, I think lots of people remember the picture of Diana in the kind of polka dot dress . Again, as you say, very simple , very chic , but But I think for a lot of people who thought of Diana as being a bit of someone who was able to sort of prove that thing of elegance and style sort of never go out of fashion, do they? I mean, 'cause she could actually be wearing that this year and she'd look pretty good as well. Yes, exactly. And funnily enough, that sort of slightly eighties look because rivals and these kind of TV shows that are channeling that look, it's kind of becoming chic again. And there was a lot about the eighties that was really chic. It was very modern, it wasn't kind of nostalgic, you know, it wasn't everything was kind of new and quite angular and quite sharp , which is really flattering. And then of course Princess Catherine then wore a polka dot dress a couple of years ago which was extremely similar by Alessandra Rich, which also looked absolutely incredible. Really the only difference was the hat and apart from that, they looked pretty much identical. Also, I think that long sleeves are really, really great in the summer. I think anyone who's tempted to reveal their arms after the age of thirty five should be warned seriously not to go there and that they should like forget about short sleeves, forget about cat sleeves, just wear a long sleeve and you will look thousand times more elegant and glamorous and you don't have to do any workouts to get your arms to look nice. Zara , of course, very horsey always looks very at home and very natural at Asker. There's a nice photograph of her actually wearing a custom teal silk dress by Claire Missivani with a matching Juliette Botorille millinery hat . I mean, that's it's definitely a more slightly more punchy , isn't it? It's a bit more dressed up, but it's still a bit, I mean, like don't scare the horses, right? Isn't that that's basically the idea, isn't it? Yeah, you don't, you don't want to look too garish and it's very easy when you put on a hat with a great big rose on it and a bright color to look garish. But funny enough, I always think that Zara Phillips looks very appropriate for every occasion. She always looks a little bit slowy, but she's very good looking. She's got a very beautiful face and everything. And the blue outfit that she wore with the hat . actually It's really, really chic. And slightly the ruffled collar reminds me slightly of Anne Boleyn, which I think can only be a good thing . You know, it's very royal, isn't it? It's very royal. But again, what's funny is that her mum, Princess Anne, you know, again in that same year when Zara that is also wearing pale blue . But it's a very, very old coach, but it looks fabul ous. And gloves, I love the fact she's wearing the white gloves, which most people wouldn't bother with now. That's very, very correct, very polite . And I think one of the things about Asker is there's a lot of rules and regulations about what you can wear and you can't wear. There's rules about the size of the hat , the size the minimum size, there's rules about if you do have bare arms, there's rules about how thick th howin the straps can be over your shoulder. They have to be at least two inches wide . So it's , you know, they take it all very seriously and I actually went to get a hat the other day from Lock and Co hm and the woman who was selling me the hat kept going , Which day are you going? And I said, I'm going on Thursday and she said Oh, okay. Who going I said, Oh, I'm going with Dave Nashville. I thought this is really odd conversation to have with someone who's selling your hat. And then she said, I said, Why actually out of interest? Why are you asking me? She said, Oh, because we keep a list of everyone what day they're going on, who they're going with and what hat they bought. So they don't show up and bump into their friend wearing it. And I thought, wow, talk about customer service . Amazing. Isn't that sweet? It's the most PG Woodhouse thing I've heard for quite a long time . I know, I know. So it's still very like that. It's still very, very old fashioned. And then there's also a sort of what's quite funny about Aska and all of these kind of social occasions. There's a kind of hierarchy of you know boxes , tents, marquises, picnics, you know, whose you're going to. And obviously the most expensive and the grandest thing is to be in a box, you know, as close to the king and queen as possible. So if you have the box next door to the King and Queen and you can say just quite just an aside but loudly enough for everyone else to hear, I'm just going to see Pamela . I'll be back in five minutes , everyone. We know what that means. It means I'm really good friends with the king and queen. But that's, you know, that's it all becomes, it's all about proximity to the royals ask it's really. funn Ity. It's like a micro universe where suddenly royalty really matters like you're in the court and then you leave even then you forget about it . I totally agree. It's one of the last expressions of the kind of old fashioned court. And of course it's very much symbolized in their arrival every day, in these coaches that come up the straight mile , a vasket and it's a wonderful wonderful occasion, very old fashioned. It feels like that thousand years of history feels very kind of present, very sort of viscerally there And as you say, that the sort of accessibility of the royal family on the day is pretty unique because I mean, there's lots of events where you can go and stand behind a fence and mingle with the Royal family or you can be , you know , involved in a charity or whatever and you can hang out with them. But the sort of and it's not look, I'm not saying that you're going to be rubbing up at the bar next to next to William Catherine , but there is a sense of informality that they are floating around and you might bump into them on the way to the toilets. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, well or actually on the way to the betting stations because outside all the smartest boxes they have you know little mini betting stations absolutely everywhere. And honestly, yours truly does not really indulge in gambling or at the most I'll gamble like ten pounds which, is old fashioned . But you know, that's what everyone does ask it. It's this kind of high low thing of like the champagne and the roles and then like, oh my god, we're going to put twenty pounds on the next race on the favourite. And the other thing which is quite funny is these really smart boxes and marquises, they will hire someone like say Charlie Brooks who's a racing pundit or they'll hire Alice Fox Pit Dito who will come into the box and they will give a little speech after lunch and they will say here are my tips and people sit there with their little cards and they go through with a pencil and they go, okay, well Charlie Brooks told us this is going to win and that's going to win. And it's like the kind of insider chic thing. It's very funny, it's very funny. It's its own kind of system and then you can you get a delicious lunch and it's really, really amazing. And I have to say the court is very beautiful, although when you get outside the royal enclosure , it's extremely crowded. That's my only sort of criticism of Aska is it is a little bit you know busy , but then you know, people like it. It's an amazing occasion . Yeah, yeah. Now , one of the questions that I'm going to be looking at carefully this year is what kind role and what kind of reception Beatrice and Eugenie are given. Obviously, we're not in the business of making forecasts here on the royalist. And as I say, by the time this goes out, we will have had Tuesday. Now, I think I will stick my neck out and say that I think we're probably unlikely to see them on Tuesday. Typically we'd be more likely to see them on ladies day, which is the Wednesday and but and of course the other question is if do they just attend as you know, of course like anybody can apply for a ticket for a badge for the Royal Enclosure through the appropriate networks . But in fact, that's a good point. We might get into that, how you actually can't get a park. Not just anyone, Tomsky. No, not just anyone. So how do you actually get a park? Because I've always got a media pass , but yes, so to get into the Royal Enclosure, you have to be accepted to the Royal Enclosure. You have to apply . It's a bit like a member's club. I haven't applied to the Royal Enclosure. Daisy Natchball has. So I said to Daisy when she invited me, do you know what, Darling? I'd love to come, but I do not have a badge to the royal enclosure. And she said I'll sort it. Because guess what? She's third cousin of the Prince William . So she probably just got on the phone . Yeah . But it didn't it's it's not easy, it's not easy to get a pass to the royal enclosure. And once you've got one or however many you get, you have to keep getting them year on year or else you get to the back of the list again . It's a bit, you know, it's the same as these like , you know, very good Wimbledon tickets and things like that. It's all a members club. I'm afraid England is all about members clubs, you know ? 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There's this extraordinary story in the mail that I actually talked about briefly earlier with Paula about how Andrew had kind of effectively been a kind of puppet master to encoura ge them to go to Harriet and Peter's wedding and is presumably encouraging them to go to Asker. And of course there's been briefing and counterbriefing saying well they're not invited, they are invited, they will be, they won't be. And I mean, look, obviously it's a free country and people can do what they want and the king can do what he wants and the king is the king and he can have whoever he wants around him. But I just from my own perspective, I just feel that I feel that maybe a year off from going to Aska and being Anakin Queen might be sort of courteous from their point of view. Anyway, I don't know, I don't know. Well, do you know, it's such a funny thing because look , okay, they have a nice flat in the palace like lots of the other nephews and nieces. They're all living off the crown and whatever it is and people are annoyed about that , but I think because they're the children of Andrew , they are being they're like the middle of a media feeding frenzy. And I actually think it must be absolutely awful for them. Whether you think they're good or bad, it doesn't really matter but they haven't you know they just had the unfortunate accident of being Andrew and Fergi's children. So if they don't go they're damned and if they do go, they're damned. They can't really get it right . But if I was them , I would think twice about this year. I agree. I think this year it would be good not to because the problem is when they appear, it means the male can write that story again about them having the flat in St. Is it St. James's Palace or Kensington Palace, a cop number? One each . But okay, let's assume that they let's say that they've decided they do want to go . What would be the what clothing they need a bit of styling? Let's be frank. Their ask at looks have not always been the best. What would your advice be to be and you if they were saying no actually we are going to go. The thing is they'll want to go because it is their scene. It's their social scene. All their friends will be there and all their family will be there. But I agree with you, Tom, some of their AskArfits have been what can be described only as Gopping . At what? Gopping . What does gopping mean? It's a very slony word for not good . Goping. Absolutely gopping. Very piggy without . You know, okay Okay, you can laugh, you can laugh at fine to fine . So there's been some gopping outfits and gopping sony outfits because they're very they're very tempted by frills and fastened baux and roses and bright colours and great big Phillip Treasi hats with prongs sticking out of them in completely inappropriate unflattering places . And I think that what they need to do is parrot back , you know, get into a little navy dress, put on a straw boater, just wear like a school uniform as if they were going back to school, they'd look really chic with the red hair and the red lips and everything. And just try and be low key, just try and be low key . But you know , I noticed that Be on at the wedding was wearing like a very expensive familia wixed dress, you know, comfort in flowers. It's a very identifiable dress like a three grand dress, you know , so they're not really trying to be wallfowers at this point. But I think they I think they should be very like even if they haven't done anything wrong whether they have or they haven't, they need to play it cool and be really humble and respectful of what has the fallout is terrible. It's absolutely terrible . I suspect that the compromise will be that they will come . I suspect they I very much doubt they'd go in the carriage down the strait mile with the king and queen in the carriage procession . That would certainly be a real moment, a real talking point . That would be my suspicion. You know there's a helicopter pad opposite the grand . So they can take a helicopter from Windsor Castle or Kensington Palace wherever , and they can just land there and they can just sneak across the race course and no one would know, no press would see them . I mean, unless someone pointed out that's the Royal Helicopter . What are some really good brands that are going to be seen everywhere at Aska this year . And what of those brands are your particular favourites? If people were thinking of buying one or two things that gave a bit of an Aska vibe or what have you, what are the brands that you think are really chic and really cool that maybe everybody wouldn't completely know about that are a little bit inside? Well, I think actually Amelia Wixed, who I just mentioned , is one of the go to London designers for Askirat dressing and literally they know every single rule about how long the sleeves should be, how much arm you can choke, how long the dress can be as well. Because I don't think you're allowed to wear a mini dress as far as I recall. You can wear a trouser suit as a woman and you do see quite a lot of people wearing like things like from like Daisy Natchable's brand, which is called Natchable. She does the most amazing linen trous, er suits , Julieva Heritage does really beautiful Italian tailoring, soft linens all that kind of thing . But I think I think probably the brand that obviously we all know about, but there will be most in evidence among the sort of super rich will be Chanel because that has been the brand that have been the most successful this year in terms of image and design design , also deal because they've got a new designer Jonathan Anderson. So I think those two will be the big guns of the brands, if you see what I mean . And then you also always get people like the very old school people will turn up in like a vintage Aussie clock, you know, with a wonderful straw hat or something, which I think also looks really chic. Or vintage theater porter that they've bought in a junk shop in Nottinghill with a lovely old hat . Lots of people like Gabriella Hearst , they love Chloe and then shoes wise, I think Ferragamo is a brilliant choice because they have the original classic block heel that you're not going to kill yourself in on the grass . Fantastic . Well , suffice to say that we are all going to be glued to our televisions over the next few days. Speaking of Coco Channel , my sister Plum done a marvellous for her series of videos for her substack, which is called PS by Plum Zykes, about very funny series of film lets about life and the Cotswolds. And I have to say Plum, that in the most recent one, which is my favorite so far , you look exactly like Coco Chanel striding over the fields of Gloucestershire. Oh, thank you, Tom So we might be able to show you a little clip of that, but I'm not going to make myself hostage to fortune, but hopefully technically we can show you a small clip of that before we go. So Steve Tim , do we go straight down ? Oh my god . How important would you say fashion is to use not at all. Not interested . You not heard of Shannon? No , okay. Timmy , I think I've got shit all over my new skirt. Can we go back to the house and wipe it off, darling? Oh god . Plumbsite's always a great pleasure to see you, not only because you are my sister, but because you are such an expert and just such a fascinating wealth of information and detail on fashion. Thank you also for the wonderful new word gopping , which I understand is a slowy term for not terribly nice or no not quite not terribly . Is that what it means? Ugly, ugly. Okay, not terriblized. That'll do. And if I may give you my own tip when it comes to car parks, number three car park, Irish owners and breeders. That's the one to go to. Oh, do you think that you can just sneak in there if you've got a slight Irish connection? That's what I'm gonna do. That number three car park will be the most fun by miles winch. Champagne out of a shoe, it'll be marvellous . Okay, thanks Tommy, it's so nice to see you darling. Enjoy yourself. Bye. Bye bye Well, that's it for this week's episode of The Royalist. Thank you so much for watching and for listening. Thank you to all our regulars. Thank you to Alexandra for your fantastic welcoming duties. Thanks to our guest s this week, Paula Frolic and Plum Sykes. Thanks to my amazing and incredibly patient producer Rachel Passer. Thanks Rachel, as always, a fantastic show . If you enjoyed the show , may I ask you to do the following things in the following order ? 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