Definitely check out cerave products. What ever you use you may have to let your face have an adjustment period. Start by using the product every 3 nights then after about a week go to every 2 nights, working up to every night. And only try 1 new product at a time. Repeating that pattern with each one.
Thanks, that's really helpful :)
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I love Letizia's hatred of hats. She's worn them only a few times - single figures - and I think whenever it's expected she'll wear one she spends the whole time trying to work out the smallest amount of material she can put on her head and still have it be classified as a "hat"
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HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark turns 84 today! 🇩🇰
Congratulations!
📷 Det Danske Kongehus
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What skincare products do you use at the moment?
For a cleanser try cerave
For Moisturiser I use Nivea
Also, the ordinary serums are really good!
All products I use are from The Ordinary, can’t remember the precise names but something to do with hydration. They seem to not agree with me. And thanks :)
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So people might remember I decided to start using skincare products at 31 but I think they're a bit too harsh for my face. They leave my skin quite red and blotchy, but I get really dry skin otherwise. So does anybody else with very sensitive, dry skin have recommendations for basic skin care stuff - cleanser, moisturiser, whatever else it is you're supposed to use - that won't make me look like a peeling lobster
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HRH Princess Eléonore of Belgium turns 16 today!
Congratulations!
📷 Belgian Royal Palace/ Bas Bogaerts
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Most royals either don't care what the public think or desperately want to project an image that despite their wealth and privilege, they can connect with ordinary people. And then Martha Louise is out here dedicating a long, angry Instagram post to proving that her fiance actually was more rich, privileged and out of touch than anyone else thought.
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There was originally a bit more about Mark's involvement in all of this which I unfortunately cut out but we may call on your knowledge for a future episode I promised on Anne's love interests (the conclusion will be: how did Andrew and Mark ever manage to get someone like Anne?)
Charles and Camilla just celebrated their wedding anniversary, so it's time for @duchessofostergotlands and @princesscatherinemiddleton to break down the true story behind the most controversial royal romance of the 20th century.
Episode 96 - “The Camilla Myth” - on Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts and Amazon!
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This is the weirdest thing and I'm completely obsessed with it
Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and King Philippe of Belgium celebrate their respective birthday together as The King is celebrating his 64th birthday today and The Grand Duke will turn 69 tomorrow on April 16th 2024, ahead the Luxembourg State Visit to Belgium which starts tomorrow, at The Castle of Laeken in Brussels, Belgium -April 15th 2024.
📷 : Bas Bogaerts/Belgian Royal Palace & Cour Grand-Ducale Luxembourg.
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I’m pretty sure tumblr staff are in some kind of long experiment where they are putting false trending topics that no one’s actually talking about into the top 10 to see how long we go along with it
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Random Question: Might I ask what is considered royal or not royalty. For example Delphine of Belgium wasn't born with a royal title and is illegitimate but was made a princess very late in life but for example Joachim's kids were all born prince and Princess and were stripped of their titles but are still in the line or succession. Is a royal just anyone with a prince or princess title or anyone who is eligible to inherit the throne or even anyone who is directly related either illegitimate or legitimately to a monarch i.e like Albert's older children in Monaco? Very long ask but I just wanted to ask your opinion. Thanks.
That is the eternal question lol. There is no objective definition, really. The dictionary will say something along the lines of a member of the family of a sovereign monarch (although some just say King and Queen because they don't really care that those aren't the only monarchs, even though members of families from Principalities and Grand Duchies and so on have called themselves royal). But dictionaries aren't like encyclopaedia, you don't get the background and debates behind the explanation. So in reality, it's a very simplistic definition you'll get. They don't clarify whether it's only those who have a certain degree of kinship to the monarch or are legitimate or any of those other questions. Basically short answer is there is no answer, everyone will say something different.
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I asked recently about an illegitimate child scenario (admittedly I was on a bit of pain meds and forgot I asked LOL) and just now remembered to go look at the answer LOL. Anyway, thanks for answering and being your normal amazingly informed self. I did just have a weird follow up though. If the parents were married after the child was born and the royal father was given a dukedom, could the title be created with language to pass it to the first born child, no matter of legitimacy or gender? Thinking about how DoE reverts to the crown in this current creation gave me the thought.
Lol it was very coherent for pain meds. I remember when my dad had surgery and he sat in a corner like a zombie for ages lol. Anyway, the answer is buried in my very long explanation but I'll highlight it for you:
"The way a title is inherited is stated at the time of the title’s creation and cannot be changed after the fact. So for example Lord Mountbatten only had daughters so when the Earl Mountbatten of Burma title was created it said that it would pass to his eldest daughter and then her lawful heirs (additional note that wasn't in the original: the change was just for his daughter Patricia so after her death inheritance went back to men only). So I suppose there probably isn’t anything legally to stop a title from being created and the Letters Patent saying “it goes to this illegitimate child”... but it would be unprecedented to my knowledge in the modern era and highly context dependent."
The Letters Patent which are used to award titles are actually regulated, there's a rule book with the exact language which should be used. However it does say that it can be varied "as required for the insertion of special remainders or any special grants" by command of the monarch. So yes, theoretically that could be done. But it would be a bit of a headache as I mentioned in the last ask. For Mountbatten it was basically stopping the title becoming extinct because he had no sons but it was phrased so that if he did have a miracle son that son would still get it. Whereas your situation is a little different, potentially, and I think would just be a bit of a headache all around. So I think they'd much rather people just used contraceptives lol.
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My brother and I were the same age as Charlotte and George when our mom was diagnosed with cancer. (She's been cancer-free for more than two decades!) Even when you know that the prognosis is good and a full recovery is expected, it's SO hard to deal with all that fear and uncertainty at that age. I can't even imagine how much harder it's been made by all the unhinged speculation. I'm sure they have a great support system and mental healthcare but God I really feel for the Wales kids rn. :(
Glad to hear your mum's doing well! :) I can certainly imagine it's very difficult for kids that age. I've never been in that position - and as you say, even those who have been in that position haven't had quite the same situation as George and Charlotte in particular. They are old enough to understand, old enough to hear things in the playground, but not quite old enough to understand the full story or to challenge what they're hearing. I would definitely take comfort in the fact that within their social circles people are incredibly protective. We saw that in St Andrews and in Anglesey - the fact they lived in both of those places for so long and we can count on one hand the number of times the paparazzi saw them or the locals said anything about them - and we've seen it with other royals like Camilla, whose friends absolutely rallied around her and the kids to protect them. I knew someone who was very very close to William and getting information out of him was like getting blood from a stone! So I have no doubt that the people around them will have closed ranks to make sure the kids are well protected and that the fact they waited to confirm it until the kids were on holiday will really help.
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King Carl Gustaf stops mid interview to ask the camera man to film a cat
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For people who are fond of my random personal anecdotes, a guy messaged me the other day who I hooked up with once at university. Apparently he saw me on Tinder when I was in Edinburgh (I live not too far away and he's a doctor in Edinburgh now). Admittedly it did take me 6 months to log into Facebook and see his message but I haven't spoken to him in about 10 years so I'm going to consider it a triumph that he saw me and 10 years down the line still thought "yeah I'll give her a message."
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I finally watched The Dropout and it was everything I wanted Inventing Anna to be.
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