Yuletide green, just perfect for the Princess of Wales and her tartan army, writes ALICE HARE with her fashion verdict By ALICE HARE Published: 21:57, 25 December 2024 | Updated: 22:30, 25 December 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Talk about step into Christmas and let’s join together! To attend church at Sandringham yesterday morning, the Princess of Wales continued the ‘literal dressing’ that has characterised her wardrobe of late – that is, adopting sartorial codes to reflect an event’s theme. For the traditional Christmas Day service, this came in the form of Kate’s colour choice: a perfectly yuletide forest green with a flash of equally festive tartan. Her long coat-dress was made bespoke by her favourite designer, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, whom the Princess has called upon for all the most important events of her life, namely her wedding day.
Kate, 42, first wore it last year at the launch of a Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood campaign in Leeds. Yesterday, she teamed it with another long-time staple of her wardrobe, a Gina Foster hat which she wore to the very same service at Sandringham in 2013. Indeed, she has made a habit lately of rewearing older items, demonstrating she knows that the most stylish move in 2024 is to wear clothes repeatedly.
Her bag, by London designer Grace Han, comes in at £2,370 – but Kate has certainly invested in this wisely, using it innumerable times. The only new items? Her topaz, gold and diamond earrings (£5.
