Prince Harry in Kandahar

Let us begin with our Informative Caption. Gather round, please: "Prince Harry meets with British service personnel following a Remembrance Sunday service at Kandahar Airfield." Yes, after going to a rugby match on Saturday, Harry just, you know, POPPED ON OVER TO AFGHANISTAN to mark Remembrance Sunday with British troops. That's all.

Prince Harry In Kandahar

Whilst there, he also wore his beret and looked hot in front of slightly out-of-focus flags, the better to be photographed dramatically.

Prince Harry In Kandahar

INFORMATIVE CAPTION: "Prince Harry climbs to meet pilots of a RAF Tornado following a Remembrance Sunday service at Kandahar Airfield." I think my many years of reading books about People Having Romantical Problems During Wars have caused me to have a very positive knee-jerk reaction to the phrase, "pilots of a RAF Tornado."

Prince Harry In Kandahar

This looks like a movie poster for a movie that I would watch. Several times. On a loop. (It doesn't hurt that one of those dudes looks rather like a Hemsworth.)

Prince Harry Presents No 26 Squadron RAF Regiment With A New Standard

Yesterday, an old Standard was retired and a new one presented and Harry did the honors, and I enjoy that this calls for swords and spurs.

Prince Harry

And then he rescued this woman's hat when it blew off. HARRY. You are truly doing yeoman's work in the name of goodness this week, from visiting the troops in far off lands to rescuing millinery for fair ladies at home.

Prince Harry

He also went to a private view of 'Wounded: The Legacy of War," which is, Informative Caption tells me, a "photography exhibition by Bryan Adams of young wounded servicemen and women from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts." Here he is with the artist, proving that it is not the same Bryan Adams* of "Summer of 69," or "Have You Ever Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLLY SERIOUSLY REALLY Ever Loved a Woman," both of which, however, I believe are chapter titles in Harry's eventual autobiography. I kind of wish he were also wearing jeans.

*EXCEPT I WAS WRONG AND IT IS. In my defense, in my head, Bryan Adams looks like 1987. I had no idea he was such a double-threat. You go, Bryan Adams.

Prince Harry

This art exhibit looks excellent, though. Go, people of London!

Kate Graffiti

Speaking of art, this is a very cheeky (although I think quite affectionate, if nude) bit of graffiti that's popped up in North London over the past week. I read an article in which the person whose storefront this is said he's already gotten a ton of people calling and asking if he can chip it off the wall so they can buy it. He can't, but I hope one of those callers was William, who wants to hang this over his bathtub.

The Duchess of Cambridge

This was some fairly good side-eye from Kate, which I assume is the expression she gave to that street art when William drove past it and said, "don't you think that'd be absolutely ripping hanging above my bath, poppet?! DON'T YOU?"

The Duchess of Cambridge's UPDO

I will always bring you Up-Do Back of Head Close-up For Maximum Pinteresting.

Michael and Carole Middleton

Kate's parents also were invited to this event and I like to think that she and her mother showed up and looked at each other and were like, "UM."

Wills and Kate

Because otherwise, it's just too matchy-matchy. My guess is that the apple just didn't fall far from the tree.

Wills and Kate

WILLS: Bye, Middletons! WAIT until you see this new painting of Kate I'm trying to get! It's REALLY something!

KATE: WILLS. Don't tell them about it. They're my parents.

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik

Over in Germany, these two attended the Bambi Awards and HOLY SMOKES, Mary looks great in that dress. CPF looks like he just fell out of a rolled up tapestry.

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

Now, FINALLY, I am allowed to share with you all the snaps of CPM in South Africa. I apologize for the delay in these -- she is often embargoed, I don't know why, and we have to wait it out, because I don't want to get sued. Anyway. This is a rather underwhelming opening, for me, but who can follow that navy sequined number and NOT underwhelm?

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

I have no idea what's happening on her feet -- so blurry! -- but the dress is sunny and chipper.

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

And this is AMAZING. I don't know if I think her top is 100% succcessful, but that skirt is major and everyone's just looking at those ginormous earrings anyway.

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

She LOVES this crazy coat, but I'm in love with the moderately crazy pants on the woman behind her.

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

Mary DOES NOT need a bracelet.

Crown Princess Mary visits South Africa

She ALSO looks Hotter in Sunglasses, because no one is immune to that.

Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik

And now she's back in Denmark -- this is an event for the American Chamber of Commerce -- and I have to admit, this is ALSO sincerely glorious, and I love it. A very strong showing from Mary this week. Round of applause.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia in Luxembourg

Felipe and Letizia zipped over to the Grand-Ducal Palace in Luxembourg for an official visit. I really liked the dress on Letizia at first glance, but it's doing whatever the opposite of "growing on me" is. Falling off me?

King Felipe and Queen Letizia in Luxembourg

But I am FEELING her winter white coat.

King Felipe and Queen Letizia in Luxembourg

AND that clutch. (Bonus Crown Prince Guillaume sighting. I don't currently have a shot of Princess Stephanie, but I'm working on it.)

Spanish Royals Visit Brussels

While they were out of the house, Felipe and Letizia ALSO went to Brussels. I LOVE this outfit on Letizia. I feel like Queen Mathilde is thinking, "I kind of regret this wreath on my head. I'm so used to standing next to Maxima, in some giant headpiece."

Queen Maxima Of The Netherlands Attends Frans Listz Piano Competition

Maxima is like, "YOU CALLED?"

Maxima and Beatrix

As goofy as she looks in the prior slide, she and Beatrix look appropriately somber and elegant here, at a memorial for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster.

Prince Charles Attends The Welsh Guards Regimental Remembrance Sunday

This is the "Welsh Guards regimental remembrance Sunday lunch" and I look forward to one of you telling me why he's wearing a bowler, because I'm sure there's a reason. (I kind of would like to see the return of this hat in general.)

Canadian Remembrance Day Ceremony Held At War Memorial In Ottawa

I don't know to whom Governor General of Canada David Johnston is gesturing here, but whoever he is, HE'S GUILTY.

Sophie and Edward Wessex

This is the Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance and it's hard to take a flattering picture of people mid-song. I wish I had a full-length gander at Sophie's dress.

Sophie Wessex

Is she wearing purple tights?! This is a meeting with Girl Guides, and nothing is more appealing to young girls -- not to generalize -- than purple tights.

Prince Philip and QE2

CAN WE JUST DISCUSS THESE SEQUINS? The old girl's still got it.

Royals Round-Up, November 14, 2014

This Royals Round-Up has EVERYTHING! Loads of formerly embargoed pictures of Crown Princess Mary looking like a boss! Prince Harry in SO MANY UNIFORMS! Sequins on QE2! Extra Wills and Kate! Coats! In case you missed it, we had lots of Hot Royals Action around these parts this week: Wills and Kate went to an oil refinery and then a rugby match; there was both a Harry sighting AND a Goat sighting, although sadly TRAGICALLY not together. Everyone wore somber hats on Remembrance Day, and William's had the bonus benefit of making him look pretty hot. Kate put on some flat boots and visited with athletes at a laBORatory. And last night, of course, everyone got all formal and looked dreamy to meet One Direction. ELSEWHERE! Wills and Kate are COMING TO NEW YORK in less than a month. New Yorkers, know that we are going to want to hear all about it. (That link goes to their press release; they are doing a ton of stuff in 72 hours.) Wills and Kate are tying bells to George to keep track of him. (Not really.)(NOT YET.) (The Express) Netflix has given the thumbs up to the Peter Morgan-penned drama The Crown, which I am very excited about. (Entertainment Weekly) GQ has suggestions for what Wills ought to do with his hair, and I think I agree with their final analysis. Wills knighted Daniel Day-Lewis today, and everyone looks quite smart. (The Telegraph) Via Hello, there was recently a royal wedding in Morocco and it will not surprise you to hear that Lalla Salma looked awesome. Here's Maxima, looking delighted as she cradles a wheel of cheese. (Royalista) James Middleton gave an interview about his Marshmallow Empire and noted that he really wants to be "the cool uncle," which...I am afraid you have a tough competition there, dear heart. (The Telegraph) Maclean's sings the praises of Princess Anne, but keeps her crime-fighting side gig secret. Over at The Duchess Diary, they're discussing some of the most famous British royal jewels. Modern Farmer, natch, has all the scoop on The Goat -- or rather, one of The Goats. It's a great read, if a little old. Just trust me.