👑 The Queen's steadfast style formula is an inspiration to women of all ages.
On Her Majesty's 95th birthday, @BethanHolt looks back on her Royal Highness' fashion over the years and her style that has remained largely unchanged over 6 decades
👗 In her steadfast dedication to this singular way of dressing, the Queen has not only made herself into a figure who would be recognisable to millions from a mile off...
She’s probably made her job easier - with little room for manoeuvre, there’s little room for error
✅ Her Majesty has found a comfort zone.
The style works for her both practically and with an eye on what would be dependable for years to come, transcending the whims of the catwalk
🛍️The Queen has become a trendsetter in her own right - designers from top houses, including Gucci and Chanel, have been inspired by the look that is all her own.
Careful attention paid by senior dresser Angela Kelly, can be credited for many of the Queen's looks
✏️ The Queen’s hats and coats are often designed in-house by Kelly.
🪡 Designs are then made by her team of seamstresses or are commissioned to just one designer, Stewart Parvin, and a small handful of milliners, including Rachel Trevor Morgan
💎 Each of Her Majesty’s coats is accessorised with a thoughtful brooch
They often hold some significance to the event she is attending
Some of Her Majesty's favourite broaches include:
🇬🇧The ruby and diamond Andrew Grima brooch given to her by Prince Philip in 1966 as a tribute to British design.
💎The sapphire piece famously worn on her 1947 honeymoon.
💐The flower basket brooch, a gift from her parents
👡Shoemakers Anello and Davide have held a Royal Warrant since 2001.
They have created the same chic, low-heeled courts to the Queen for over 50 years.
👜Another British company, Launer, has made over 200 handbags for the Queen since she was a young woman
👗We might not all find that highlighter-hued coats and statement hats work for our everyday style...
But in a world where trends come and go, there is a lot to be said for the Queen's timeless approach which has worked so well over the years
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.