Princess Anne has been photographed wearing an item straight from her late mother Queen Elizabeth II’s wardrobe during a major royal engagement. Anne, 75, paid homage to the late monarch last week when she went to the British Standards Institution's International Electrotechnical Commission Annual Meeting in Edinburgh. The Princess Royal wore a striking purple suede jacket for the annual event to keep warm in chilly Scotland.
Anne paired the jacket with a check skirt in a navy pattern, wearing a high-necked silky printed blouse beneath. Eagle-eyed royal watchers quickly pointed out that that the bold purple number was a hand me down from Elizabeth II, who most recently wore it in 2010, also in Scotland, when she disembarked the Hebridean Princess at Scrabster Harbour. Anne is known for re-wearing her clothes for decades and still favours a fur coat each winter that the famously thrifty royal originally acquired in the early 1970s.
In 2023, Anne dug deep into her wardrobe and pulled out a light blue pleated A-line dress for Royal Ascot that she originally wore in 1978. The popular royal has also publicly spoken out against the rise of low-cost fast fashion and said she prefers to alter older pieces and reuse fabrics than buy new clothes. “You think about how much is going into landfill,” she said in 2023 while visiting one of the few remaining English textiles factories.
“You go through the phase when fashion was very structured and people followed fashion, but you had.
