First Official Portrait of Kate Middleton

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The politics of hate. And envy.

Not at all. It's just a crap picture

 

[Frank Merton]

Not at all. It's just a crap picture

I disagree. It's very formal and stiff and does make her look a bit mature, but as I said earlier her beauty does come through. I would have liked a friendlier smile but I take it that is not considered the thing in Britain.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I disagree. It's very formal and stiff and does make her look a bit mature, but as I said earlier her beauty does come through. I would have liked a friendlier smile but I take it that is not considered the thing in Britain.

It doesn't. It's dull and dreary and makes her look even more dull and dreary when she can and has (before she married) looked much younger, stylish and happier.

Now, I don't know when these ones of Diana were done, but there's plenty here that make her look young and happy. (Maybe they were after she left Chaz though?)

There's plenty of bright and colourful ones here

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=diana and official portrait&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.d2k&biw=1252&bih=540&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=xzjwUNHvB8rQhAfdk4CAAg

although equally, there's some very dull ones, e.g.

Awful

 

[DotCommunist]

I disagree. It's very formal and stiff and does make her look a bit mature, but as I said earlier her beauty does come through. I would have liked a friendlier smile but I take it that is not considered the thing in Britain.

shit dentistry ennit. You'll never get a pic of me showing my apple-through-a-letterbox gnashers unless you snap me off guard

 

[stuff_it]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20978904

You'd think they could do a better job than that - All it needs is a few unicorns and other magical folk in the background and it's hippy art from the local market..

She looks...erm....a bit older in that pic.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

She looks...erm....a bit older in that pic.

I'd put her in her mid-40s

 

[stuff_it]

I'd put her in her mid-40s

That's about what I would guess. Maybe she's not planning on getting a nanny and they were trying to get ahead of themselves.

 

[Manter]

I think it was his wife and it was the Sutherland one.

yes- a completely amazing picture too, based on the sketches for it. And Sutherland was a genius. This chappie.... isn't

E2A- the pic that was destroyed

 

[Manter]

shit dentistry ennit. You'll never get a pic of me showing my apple-through-a-letterbox gnashers unless you snap me off guard

she's got amazing teeth. Veneers, apparently, but still

(read Grazia on the plane this week )

 

[silverfish]

its just not very flattering, she wouldn't bang it on her facebook wall

 

[Teaboy]

Yeah its a rubbish picture. How much did we pay for it? We should ask for our money back.

 

[magneze]

It's like she's been kidnapped for years and this is an impression of what she looks like now.

 

[brogdale]

Did she use to sing on that Cruise programme or summat?

 

[souljacker]

I preferred the pic with her husbands hand up her bottom, if I'm honest.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It makes her look older and fatter. It's rubbish. I don't get it!

 

[skyscraper101]

They should liven these things up, get some bedroom action paintings commissioned for a change.

a la..

 

[Voley]

The painting looks like it would much rather be of a kitten, and on the kind of 'keepsake' plate they advertise in the back of the cheaper TV listings guides.

This type of thing?

 

[susie12]

She looks both smug and hard. Not good.

 

[magneze]

She looks both smug and hard. Not good.

Are you a talking about skyscraper101's post or the original?

 

[SpookyFrank]

They've tried to put a mysterious and sexy smile on someone who is about as mysterious and sexy as plywood.

 

[Pickman's model]

Actually she is lucky. She could have had me paint it.

she could have had stan do it

 

[MillwallShoes]

i know it's a really tacky painting, but by god if i was single i would like to kiss her.

 

[stavros]

She looks...erm....a bit older in that pic.

She can use it to get into bars and clubs without being ID-ed.

 

[mrs quoad]

 

[brogdale]

Yes, that's her; didn't she do that Loose Women an all?

 

[Miss Caphat]

It is rather unflattering and too dark. It gives the impression she didn't want to be sitting there for a painting. In photographs she always seems very open and cheerful by contrast. I understand that she is a well-known person but am not all that up on celebrities.

it's in her eyes, she has dead eyes in the picture, like she's half-asleep or heavily sedated

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it's in her eyes, she has dead eyes in the picture, like she's half-asleep or heavily sedated

Maybe it was cold when she sat for it. Reptiles don't like the cold

 

[shagnasty]

With the hair nearly covering her eye i thought it was Veronica Lake

 

[intersol32]

I think it looks like a Francis Bacon painting.

Hideous and abstract.

 

[Orang Utan]

It doesn't. It's dull and dreary and makes her look even more dull and dreary when she can and has (before she married) looked much younger, stylish and happier.

Now, I don't know when these ones of Diana were done, but there's plenty here that make her look young and happy. (Maybe they were after she left Chaz though?)

There's plenty of bright and colourful ones here

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=diana and official portrait&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.d2k&biw=1252&bih=540&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=xzjwUNHvB8rQhAfdk4CAAg

although equally, there's some very dull ones, e.g.

Awful

I think that's a great portrait! She looks nervous and uncomfortable.
It's beautifully painted, almost Vermeeresque