The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and Prince Harry Attend The Mix Christmas Party

This picture makes me laugh. It looks like a shot from the opening credits of a mediocre sitcom about the royal family.

The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and Prince Harry Attend The Mix Christmas Party

Kate's dress is...fine. It's very festive? I enjoy a print, generally speaking? It's very 80s day-dress-adjacent, which isn't always a terrible thing. More importantly, though, HOW IS SHE NOT FREEZING?

The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and Prince Harry Attend The Mix Christmas Party

Allow us to turn, ever so briefly, to Informative Caption: "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, decorates a gingerbread house during a visit to a Christmas party for volunteers at The Mix youth service, [which] works with Their Royal Highnesses' Heads Together Campaign." I appreciate his level of concentration here. Someone get this man a level! OBVIOUSLY these windows are NOT STRAIGHT.

The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and Prince Harry Attend The Mix Christmas Party

"And then I was like, 'Meghan, I know. William once went off boar-hunting with his ex-girlfriend when we were in a fight and I was NOT PLEASED but sometimes you have to just white-knuckle through it.' Then we talked about hats for like forty-five minutes."

The Duke and Duchess Of Cambridge and Prince Harry Attend The Mix Christmas Party

Seasons greetings and all that jazz from three people whose Christmas plans are gonna get massively scrutinized!

Wills and Kate and Harry Are Determined to Be Festive

This Vanessa Seward dress is very on-the-nose for a Christmas party. Additionally: Kate wears this belt all the time, and I never like it. I hope someone gets Kate a new belt for Christmas. Make a note, Wills. Do it for me. For additional discussion, if you so desire -- and since I suspect a lot of people will be in an anticipatory eggnog coma come Friday's Royals Round-Up -- is the new intel that not only are Wills and Kate spending Christmas Day with her parents rather than Her Majesty (which I personally don't think is a big deal; they've been married five years and only done that once before) but are ALSO skipping the Boxing Day festivities with The Firm, which I do think is sort of surprising. (There's a rumor that Harry is ALSO skipping Christmas at Sandringham, but I REALLY don't know if I buy that, and if that's true, then Something Is Definitely Up.) (Also: The Express, which broke the aforementioned gossip, is getting VERY SNARKY about all of this.) ALSO apparently Harry went boar-hunting with this dude after popping over to Toronto to visit Meghan on the way home from the Caribbean, in case you're keeping track of his whereabouts at all times. [Photos: Getty]