The world simply can't get enough of the British royal family.
We stay up late to watch their weddings, and we delight, empathize, and gawk when they suffer
celeb-style wardrobe malfunctions. Here are the most hysterical royal wardrobe mishaps to date.
The former Camilla Parker Bowles, now officially known as the Duchess of Cornwall,
is a somewhat controversial entry to the royal family, having married Prince Charles in 2005
after a long relationship that began when he was still married to Princess Diana.
The world has slowly warmed to the future king's true love,
but perhaps she unofficially became a true royal not when she married into the Windsors,
but when she experienced her very own embarrassing wardrobe malfunction.
In July 2015, she arrived at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk, near the royal family residence
at Sandringham, to attend the christening of her husband's granddaughter, Princess Charlotte.
She wore a tasteful pale blue ensemble with a matching hat for the occasion.
On the way to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury at the door, a random gust of
wind came out of nowhere and aggressively threw up the skirt portion of the dress.
She adeptly kept things less embarrassing than they could have been by holding the
dress down with her handbag, and even managed to laugh off the near faux pas.
The royal family is quite large, with all of the various nieces,
nephews, and cousins of Queen Elizabeth II hyper-aware of just how many people would
have to die for them to become the monarch of the British Empire. Beyond the household names
such as Prince Charles and Prince William, there are many lesser known royals, such as
Princess Beatrice of York. Born in 1988, she's the eldest daughter of Queen Elizabeth's son,
Prince Andrew, and eighth in line to the throne. As she's in her thirties, and recently got married
to real estate tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, she gets a fair amount of tabloid attention,
which was quite unfortunate for her when she wore an ill-fated sheer dress to a big London party.
In June 2017, Princess Beatrice wore a breezy navy mesh dress to a V&A Museum summer shindig.
Those sheer and mesh panels rarely stay where they're supposed to, especially when you need
to move about. Indeed, that's just what happened to Beatrice, who posed for photographers with her
under-dress shapewear suddenly and accidentally in plain sight. It happens to the best of us.
"I don't know if you're aware of, like, the contraptions
there's under here."
In 2011, Queen Elizabeth II, dressed in a wine-colored Stewart Parvin coat with
a matching hat by Rachel Trevor-Morgan to visit her grandson, Prince William,
at a Royal Air Force search and rescue facility where he was working at the time.
As she de-boarded an executive jet, she was greeted, not by a receiving line of royal fans,
but by high winds measuring around 50 miles per hour,
which is quite rude of Mother Nature considering that Elizabeth is the queen of England.
"Very unwieldy."
As station commander Group Captain Bruce Hedley looked on,
ready to give Her Majesty a tour, the high winds nearly captured the queen's fancy hat.
Elizabeth awkwardly clung to it as she tried to get out of the plane, maintain decorum,
and not fall over. When Prince William finally arrived, he reportedly quipped,
"I was worried your hat would blow off!"
A little too late there, Wills.
A wardrobe malfunction doesn't always involve clothes, per se, nor does it always expose
the fleshiest or most scandalous of body parts. Shoes, those shapely and stylish foot-coverings
with which most of us have a tortured, love-hate relationship, can fail us, too, Unsurprisingly,
they can also fail a duchess and turn a regular, run-of-the-mill photo opportunity into a hilarious
moment straight out of a movie where Sandra Bullock plays a clumsy undercover investigator.
In February 2018, a pregnant Kate Middleton visited Action on Addiction, a drug treatment
center in Essex. She approached the receiving line of nervous hosts and well-wishers, who
all dutifully stood just next to a metal grate. Middleton confidently strode up to greet them,
only to have the pointy heel of her shoe lodge in the grate. Unlike a romantic comedy character,
she somehow managed to avoid toppling or losing her balance,
and gracefully freed herself from the offending drainage device without too much trouble.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's big day was the fairy tale wedding of the century.
The nuptials between the heir to the throne and a beautiful, young, charming blue blood
were watched by tens of millions around the globe and introduced Princess Diana to the world.
She would, of course, go on to become a pop culture icon and tireless humanitarian.
But at the time of the July 1981 ceremony, Diana was just 20
and understandably nervous about her extremely public and important wedding.
According to the Express, as Diana arrived at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, she decided to apply
one last finishing touch, a spritz of her favorite perfume. However, because she was so nervous,
Diana was a little clumsy, and somehow managed to spill the whole bottle of perfume over her dress.
According to Diana's makeup artist, Barbara Daly, in the book Diana: The Portrait,
the two women tried in vain to clean up the unsightly stain on the front of the dress.
Daly said she advised Diana to hold the dress on the site of the stain,
making it look like she didn't want to step on the gown. So that's apparently what Diana did,
except for those moments when she held her bouquet or her hand over the blemish instead.
English designers David and Elizabeth Emanuel created Princess Diana's stunning,
highly memorable wedding dress, which is perhaps so stunning and memorable
because of its impossibly long train. However, a 25-foot train is as impractical as it is amazing.
All that material had to go somewhere while Diana's traveled to her wedding at St. Paul's
Cathedral, so she and her bridesmaids had to just kind of stuff it into a carriage as best
they could. The material was so delicate that along the relatively brief ride to the church,
all 25 feet of that train became hopelessly wrinkled. As Diana arrived,
and just before she walked down the aisle with the world watching,
her bridesmaids worked quickly to try to press and shake the wrinkles out of the gown,
but nothing worked. As a result, Diana walked down the aisle with a very vast and vastly
wrinkled train. However, she still managed to look breathtaking throughout the unforgettable event.
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