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Vicki McClure Davidson | December 22, 2011

  Ever since their engagement announcement in November 2010, and even after their greatly anticipated royal wedding at Westminster Abbey last April, Prince William’s lovely bride — the former Kate Middleton, now Duchess Kate of Cambridge — still captivates. The media and millions of people, even those outside the UK, attentively watch Kate for her [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | October 24, 2011

  I’m all set for Halloween. A colleague gave me a fabulously feathered Mardi Gras mask as a little gift from his recent trip to New Orleans, and I’ll either resurrect my black high school graduation gown (the nearly always perfect, last-minute Halloween garb) or a long-sleeved, slinky black sorceress dress I made eons ago [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | June 19, 2011

  I’m impressed by this woman’s money-awareness sensibilities more and more, by her efforts to continue to be a frugalista even though she is now a member of British royalty. The new Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, stunned some royal watchers when she recently wore a coat dress to Prince Philip’s 90′th birthday [...]

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