> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Royally Played: Wills and Kate at the Royal Variety Perfomance - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/royally-played-wills-and-kate-at-the-royal-variety-perfomance/ - Published: 2014-11-13T22:00:13.000Z - Updated: 2014-11-14T02:17:21.000Z - Author: Jessica - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:39 ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend The Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl888841_007.xml) Apparently (per the *Daily Mail I Know*), this event is often attended by The Queen, or a very senior royal, so these two getting the nod is apparently a big thumbs up from the lady in charge. I'm glad they didn't then show up in, like, metallic leggings with festive holiday cornucopia tied to their heads and dueling ugly Christmas sweaters. Instead, Wills looks like Wills and Kate looks very pretty and appropriate. ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend The Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl888841_003.xml) Is this almost exactly the same picture I just showed you? YES. But let's just acknowledge that those earrings are really good. ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend The Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl889611_011.xml) I know this dress also comes in navy, and I am obsessed with navy, so on a personal level, it might have been NICE in a navy. The more you write the word "navy," the stranger it sounds. ANYWAY. I think she facially is also looking very pretty tonight. Is the eyeliner perhaps more of a grey? ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend The Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl888841_006.xml) And as much as I worship at the altar of her shiny perfect hair, this updo is really good, and she was right to put it up tonight. The Hair would have gotten in the way of the dress's neckline AND blocked our view of the earrings. (I also kind of want to go in the other room now and try to recreate this myself, on my own head. First, I'm going to have to grow 40% more hair and 60% more arms.) ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl887024_001.xml) It also works show off the back of this dress, which I like a lot. Thanks for reading all our comments about your occasional need for an up-do, Kate. Say hello to your brother-in-law for a variety of us. ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend the Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl887024_006.xml) So, I originally chose this photo so you could see the back of her dress better, but I also just noticed that Kate is walking past a poster for *Cats*, accompanied by Sir Andrew himself. Which stuck out to me not because I have a whole passel of Rum Tum Tugger jokes at my disposal (although I do), but because there is an important scene in *The Royal We* involving a production of *Cats* and I had this moment where I was like, "HAVE FICTION AND FACT CROSSED STREAMS?!" Because what are the chances?\* (Also, now we know that [*Cats* is back on the West End, and you guys, Grizabella is being played by Nicole Scherzinger](https://london.catsthemusical.com/?%5Fga=1.245592972.921978218.1415911514&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). What sentence did I just even type?) \*Additionally, although there is not yet a cover up and this listing therefore looks somewhat wonky, I am pretty excited to note that as of a couple of hours ago, Amazon and Hachette made up, which means [*The Royal We* is FINALLY pre-orderable there, if you are an Amazon user](https://www.amazon.com/The-Royal-We-Jessica-Morgan/dp/1455557102/ref=tmm%5Fhrd%5Ftitle%5F0?ie=UTF8&qid=1415912025&sr=8-1&ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Do you not want to know what happens after *Cats*?! (*Eventually, there will be a cover. It won't arrive at your house sans cover.)* ## Kate and Harry Styles ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl889611_001.xml) (Harry Styles is NOT in *The Royal We*. OR IS HE? \[He's not.\] ) Reports from this event amused me, I have to say. [Apparently, The Other Harry congratulated Kate on her bump, and then noted "although she didn't look bumpy,"](https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/535242/Duke-and-Duchess-Kate-William-Royal-Variety-performance?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io) and somehow that statement reads like such a slightly doofus-y twenty-something boy thing to note that it warmed my heart. (As an old woman, I am at a point where I feel fondness for young doofuses.) That said: Harry, what are you wearing?! Taylor Swift is going to write a song about that jacket, and it's NOT going to be complimentary. ## The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend The Royal Variety Performance ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl889611_006.xml) WILLS: Dude. Treasure that mop while you've got it. JUST SOME ADVICE FROM ME TO YOU. To ALL of you. [Royally Played: Wills and Kate at the Royal Variety PerfomanceThis is a new dress on Kate -- it's this Diane von Furstenberg -- and I am beginning to think she feels about black/navy lace evening gowns the way we both feel about sailor-striped shirts: That they're IRRESISTIBLE. Because this new dress reminds me a wee bit of this old dress (although not as much in actual fact as in my memory). That's not a complaint. While no black evening gown will ever reach the heights of THIS black evening gown, we are in a different time (and she is in a temporarily different body) and I think she looks great in this. I also know a lot of you are very pleased about the up-do, and frankly, so am I. Let's examine all of this far more closely. \[Photos: Splash, Yui Mok/PA Wire\]![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/spl888841_007.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/royally-played-wills-and-kate-at-the-royal-variety-perfomance-11-2014/)