What an ending to the month. Yesterday morning, William and Kate welcomed Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel at Windsor Castle. The Swedish royal couple are on a three-day trip to the U.K.
To the delight of those of us who are weary of the trousers ensembles, Kate chose an Emilia Wickstead dress in a wintry forest green. She paired it with Emmy London heels and sapphire earrings. Although events like this inside Windsor don’t provide the best/most photos, she looked lovely in those we did get. I hope she wears this dress again so we can get a better look. It is similar in style to a number of Wicksteads she has worn in the past, but with that longer midi-length. Very elegant.
All four attended the Royal Variety Performance together that evening. Kate wowed in a blue gown by Safiyaa, a brand Meghan has worn a number of times, which sparked off a discussion of its own.
The busy day of engagements for Kate came as controversy swirls around the publication of Omid Scobie’s book Endgame (discussed in more depth here). It seems that the translator received an earlier version of the book to translate into Dutch for publication. In that version, the book named both King Charles and Kate as two senior royals who wondered, before his birth, what color Archie’s skin would be. Omid claimed no version of the book ever included the name, while the translator has vehemently asserted the manuscript she received included the names. Whom do you believe?
The books were pulled almost immediately (although I heard it is still for sale at at least one Dutch bookstore), but the names circulated pretty quickly on social media. No media outlets were saying which two royals were named until Piers Morgan publicly named the royals on his program. According to the Telegraph:
Morgan revealed the names of the two members of the Royal family caught up in a racism row involving the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, after their identities were published in the Dutch translation of a new royal book.
As copies of Omid Scobie’s Endgame were urgently pulled from the shelves in the Netherlands, Morgan said it was nonsensical that the names should be accessible in another country but not in the UK.
He told viewers of his TalkTV show Uncensored on Wednesday evening that he did not believe “any racist comments were ever made by any members of the Royal family”.
But he said he was sharing the names in order to allow an “open debate” about what really happened.
Now the Palace has said it is considering all its options, including legal action.
I am not a British lawyer, but I don’t think that the Palace will sue Piers. I found this legal commentary interesting