Royal blue Kate seems trendy and chic in an Alexander McQueen coat
The Princess of Wales seemed fittingly regal in a wealthy royal blue as she celebrated Christmas Day at Sandringham with the prolonged Windsor household yesterday.
Holding daughter Charlotte’s hand on the stroll to the annual Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church, Kate’s key piece was a protracted Alexander McQueen coat with fabulously structured shoulders and a nipped-in waist. Unfussy, trendy, elegant… We’ve come to count on nothing much less.
She teamed this with a roll-neck navy jumper, £1,180 customised ‘Glen 85’ suede knee-high boots from Gianvito Rossi and a bespoke matching royal blue headpiece. The dramatic felt pillbox type hat, designed by London-based milliner Juliette Botterill, was adorned with a sublime, stylised bow and crossed quill embellishment.
The look was accomplished along with her linked sapphire drop with diamond encompass earrings from her late mother-in-law Princess Diana‘s jewelry assortment.
It was the queen of tonal dressing at her finest.
Elegance: The Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte, eight, at Sandringham yesterday
In step: King and Queen Camilla. Below: Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh in feathered fedora
Kate, who is thought to put on the identical garments in a number of colors, additionally owns a inexperienced model of this attractive Alexander McQueen coat and a black model of the hat, which she wore to Welsh Guard’s St David’s Day Parade in March this 12 months.
Kate’s been nailing the formal Christmas gown code since she first joined the household at Sandringham in 2011, the identical 12 months she married Prince William at Westminster Abbey. On that first event she wore a maroon coat gown and an identical hat by Jane Corbett.
In the 12 years since, this formulation of a tailor-made coat with an identical headpiece has been refined and repeated and this could be the strongest iteration but.
Her household coordinated their outfits this 12 months. The future King and his eldest son, ten-year-old George, have been additionally in blue, whereas eight-year-old Princess Charlotte wore a fern-green double-breasted coat with velvet collar – much like the shade her mom wore final 12 months – with navy blue tights and matching flats.
Meanwhile, little Prince Louis, 5, tied the household along with essentially the most festive outfit of all – a navy pea coat over inexperienced and blue tartan trousers, £60 from Trotters – a change from his common shorts and knee socks.
He adorably clutched the hand of his older cousin Mia Tindall, 9, additionally on her option to the service along with her mother and father, Zara and Mike Tindall and sister Lena, 5.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh attending the Christmas Day morning church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk
The Prince and Princess of Wales weren’t the one ones coordinating. The King and Queen wore complementing colors with Camilla in an Anna Valentine beige longline coat we have seen many instances earlier than. She wore a blue silk paisley gown, accessorised with beige boots and a Philip Treacy hat with feather element. The King mirrored her with a basic camel overcoat.
Ever elegant Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh was seen in coat gown by Claire Mischevani, a British designer who has develop into a agency favorite among the many royals.
Sophie’s tweed piece was tailored from a khaki crepe design – additionally with bow element neckline – obtainable on-line for £1,145. A fabulously festive alternative topped off with a £95 Hicks & Brown fedora.
For the second 12 months in a row, Andrew, the disgraced Duke of York, walked to church with the household. His ex-wife, Sarah, Duchess of York joined him in public at Sandringham for the primary time in years. She walked beside her ex-husband in Holland Cooper’s Dowdeswell coat, £799, in emerald inexperienced, a conventional alternative for the Sandringham service, teamed with ankle boots and a coordinating bejewelled clutch.
