Prince Harry
On Thursday, Prince Harry popped over to visit England's rugby team during a World Cup training session, where he was presumably supportive and also looked handsome. I read this week that "sources" claim the beard is likely to stay and while I really doubt ANYONE has inside sources on what Harry plans to do with his facial hair, other than Harry himself, here's hoping The Secret is real, and just putting that out into the universe works.
Prince Harry
"Should I just chuck it all to become a rugby player? This looks fun, and I am handsome holding a ball."
Prince Harry
Harry also put on his fancy uniform and made an impromptu visit to The Duke of York's Royal Military School in Dover.
Prince Harry and students
I love these girls, both the clearly delighted student AND the one who is trying so hard not to laugh. (I also love the student whose back is turned to us, because she is A MYSTERY.)
Prince Harry
Harry ALSO joined the Walking with the Wounded's Walk of Britain earlier in the week (he's a patron of that charity and does a lot of work with them). "But this is not walking," I hear you say. "This is football. American football." It is, and it's because Dan Marino was also there for some reason. (Presumably because he's also involved with the charity and not because Dan Marino has taken to wandering Britain's woods and fields, searching for a prince to whom he could teach a spiral.)
Prince Harry
"OOOOH so many sheep in these pastures!"
Prince Harry
Maybe I AM going to frame this and pretend it's my family WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ME?????
Prince Harry
High five indeed!
Prince Harry at the France v Canada Rugby World Cup
I assume this level of delight was prompted by his companion's cape.
Prince William
This is totally the photo they're going to use when Wills releases a self-help book. To informative caption! "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, during a visit to the National Sport Centre in Cardiff to launch the Coach Core Welsh Rugby Union Programme...[which] provides an intense training programme for 16 to 24-year-olds, many from disadvantaged social backgrounds, to become qualified coaches and inspire their peers."
Prince William
"I TOLD YOU I could levitate."
Queen Rania
Over to royals of the non-British variety. Queen Rania has been in New York recently, and ergo I can bring you many photos of her out and about this week. I realized in writing this piece that she is one of those people whose age is a total mystery and could conceivably span like a twenty year range. (She's 45.) I then fell into a wormhole of looking up the ages of other Royals Round-Up Favorites; Maxima is 44 (and we share a birthday, which explains, astrologically, our mutual affection for a cape), Letizia is 43. Queen Mathilde is only 42! I would have guessed she was way older, but now that I think about it, her FACE doesn't look old. I think she has The Hairdo of Someone Older. Crown Princess Mary is 43. The More You Know.
Queen Rania
Somewhere, Angelina Jolie just placed an order for this coat.
Queen Rania
I dislike basically everything about this except her kicky clutch. (I mean, this dress is FINE. But the shoes are AGGRAVATING.)
Queen Rania
Salma appears to be thinking, "could that be...a jumpsuit? Also, why am I wearing so much leather right now?"
Queen Maxima and King Willem-Alexander
These are apparently "the festivities marking the final celebrations of 200 years of the Kingdom of The Netherlands," and I always enjoy when a tie and a frock are clearly coordinated.
Max, Wax, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
As ever, when I can't see Max's feet, I assume she's wearing something insane.
W-A and Maxima
This is "the symposium 'China in The Netherlands,'" which makes her red dress very appropriate.
Queen Letizia and Queen Sofia
This is all very aggressively beige.
Queen Letizia
But this is great -- and I continue to LOVE this hair on her. The bob really works on her head.
Queen Letizia of Spain
And this, for National Red Cross Day -- at which she does traditionally wear something great -- is SO CUTE. The red bag!
Charlene, Albert and two irritated children
There is A LOT happening on this cover of Paris Match: Charlene is wearing culottes (??!!!), Gabriella is MESMERIZED by the aquatic life, and Jacques HATES WEARING A SUIT SO MUCH.