On a recent peruse of a July monthly glossy, I was most taken aback by the photographs of Monaco's most beautiful royal, Charlotte Casiraghi, as shot by Alisdair McLellan. And no it wasn’t the gorgeous new season Gucci she’s dressed head to toe in that had my jaw on the floor, oh no. It was her hair. Or lack of it, to be more specific. There, in all its glory, is the princess of Monaco with what can only be described as a bob. A short, cut-off, androgynous bob. Wow.

‘So what? It’s just a haircut’, you say. Which yes, it is, but this is a princess we’re talking about. A true, posh girl. The granddaughter of Grace Kelly, in case you’d forgotten. Princesses are meant to have long, flowing lengths that are synonymous with the fairy-tale lives that they live. The kind of hair that looks best when plaited into an angel-like braid or flowing beneath a wedding veil as they walk up the aisle in some bespoke Chanel number.

And it seems Charlotte’s not the only one – they’ve all been at it. Scissors have found a new spiritual home among the aristocracy because there’s snipping going on left, right and centre. Edie Campbell, who rose to modelling fame thanks to the most beautiful waist-length head of silkiness (which won her that sultry, black and white Saint Laurent campaign), recently lopped all of hers off too. On a modelling shoot, no less.

And mum-to-be Margherita Missoni, whose bohemian style was always captured via zigzag printed headbands that gave way to ridiculously voluminous brunette lengths, has followed suit as well, cutting the whole dam lot off in favour of a grown-up and, well… less boho look. 

There’s also wealthy divorcée Sheherazade Goldsmith. And New York socialite-cum-actress Annabelle Dexter Jones; seriously, all the posh girls are at it. Look through the gallery to see them before and after their snipping escapades.