{"id":333082,"date":"2026-08-30T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333082\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T10:16:11","slug":"the-late-queens-real-opinion-on-kate-middletons-unprofessional-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333082\/","title":{"rendered":"The late Queen’s real opinion on Kate Middleton’s ‘unprofessional’ hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picture the Princess of Wales, and you’ll likely imagine her signature long, flowing hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since she first\u00a0stepped onto the royal scene as Prince William’s girlfriend in 2004<\/a>, Princess Catherine has always had beautiful, glossy hair \u2013 always long and perfectly styled, tumbling down her back.<\/p>\n

The future Queen’s hair came under undeserved scrutiny earlier this summer, when royal watchers declared her ultra-long locks ‘unprofessional’<\/a> when it looked longer than ever at a reception for Cancer Research<\/a> in early June.<\/p>\n

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Princess Kate’s hair looked longer than ever in June (@ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

HELLO! reader Carol commented: “That hair is just so unprofessional,” which we vehemently disagreed with in the office. Though Princess Kate does appear to have the longest hair of a British royal in living memory, there’s no rulebook that says members of the family have to have a certain length of hair to do their job.<\/p>\n

You may also likeQueen Elizabeth’s opinion on Princess Catherine’s hair<\/p>\n

Though many of the royal ladies (Princess Anne, Duchess Sophie, Queen Camilla and Zara Tindall, for example) do all have shorter hair, Queen Elizabeth was reportedly a fan of Princess Catherine’s style of choice.<\/p>\n

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Queen Elizabeth II had an opinion on Princess Kate’s hair (@ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In fact, Prince Harry wrote in his memoir, Spare,<\/a> that his grandmother praised Princess Kate’s look. Speaking of the first time he introduced Meghan Markle to his father, the Duke of Sussex wrote:<\/p>\n

“Her hair was down, because I suggested she wear it that way. Pa likes it when women wear their hair down. Granny too. She often commented on ‘Kate’s beautiful mane’.”<\/p>\n

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Her Majesty was a fan of Princess Catherine’s hair (@ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

If that’s not a seal of approval, we don’t know what is!<\/p>\n

Prince Harry didn’t go on to share if Meghan’s hair had pleased King Charles, but during her time as a working royal, the Duchess of Sussex became best known for wearing her dark hair in a messy updo, including on her wedding day.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Meghan famously wore a messy bun on her wedding day (@ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

While Meghan’s hair looked picture perfect for her and Harry’s nuptials, it wasn’t without drama.<\/p>\n

Queen Elizabeth’s input on Meghan Markle’s wedding hair<\/p>\n

Cast your mind back to Meghan and Harry’s 2018 wedding and you’ll recall the bride wore a dazzling tiara<\/a>, previously owned by Queen Mary, named the Diamond Bandeau Tiara, borrowed from the late Queen’s collection.<\/p>\n

Upon choosing the headpiece, Prince Harry said his grandmother told Meghan “quite tenderly” that “tiaras suit you.”<\/p>\n

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Meghan wore a tiara from Queen Elizabeth’s vault (@ Getty)<\/p>\n

Her Majesty also warned Meghan about the pitfalls of the tiara. “Make sure that you practice putting it on. With your hairdresser. It’s tricky and you don’t want to be doing it for the first time on the wedding day,” Harry said that his grandmother cautioned the Duchess.<\/p>\n

He added that Princess Catherine shared similar advice. “We’d spoken to Kate about her own experience, and we’d learned that Granny’s warning was spot on. The placing of the tiara was an intricate, elaborate process. It had to be first sewn to the veil, then Meg’s hairdresser would need to fix it to a small plait in her hair. Complicated, time-consuming \u2013 we’d need at least one dress rehearsal.”<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the tiara looked picture-perfect on the wedding day \u2013 and we’re sure both Queen Elizabeth and the then Prince Charles approved of Meghan’s bridal look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture the Princess of Wales, and you’ll likely imagine her signature long, flowing hair. Since she first\u00a0stepped onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3993,125282,9580,74905,125285,3359,125284,489,9,24,63,490,9380,125280,125281,125283,1433,1315,125286,13802,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-333082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-elizabeth-ii","tag-getty","tag-getty-images","tag-harry","tag-kates","tag-meghan","tag-meghan-quite-tenderly","tag-meghan-markle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-prince-harry","tag-princess-anne","tag-princess-catherine","tag-princess-kates","tag-princess-kates-relatable","tag-queen-camilla","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queen-elizabeths","tag-queen-mary","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}