Kate Middleton Pays Homage To Princess Diana With Church Look

kate-middleton-2025-ve-day — LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 08: Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, attends a Service of Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey on the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, 2025. (Picture by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Photographs)

Kate Middleton is not any stranger to an outfit rerun or an announcement heirloom. This specific prowess was on show once more this week because the Princess joined her household at Westminster Abbey this Thursday for a commemorative service on the eightieth anniversary of VE Day—held to honour the top of World Conflict II in Europe.

For the event, she was styled in a well-recognized polka dot gown by Alessandra Rich, that includes lengthy gathered sleeves, an eighties-style bodice and shoulders, and a excessive neck element. The gown was beforehand seen on her at The Order of the Garter service in 2023, styled with a black and white fascinator and equally colored pumps.

WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 19: Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales attends The Order of The Garter service at St George’s Chapel, 2023. (Picture by Pool/Max Mumby/Getty Photographs)

This time round, the tea-length gown was paired with a black Juliette Botterill fascinator, a nude bag and matching Ralph Lauren stilettos. Of most significance and the important thing accent featured each instances have been her oft-worn Collingwood drop pearl earrings, as soon as belonging to the late Princess Diana.

The Princess of Wales additionally wore the pearls usually, together with on the 1994 Vainness Honest get together together with her famed ‘revenge gown’. Nonetheless, one look of specific be aware was her ensemble on the Royal Ascot in 1988. The Individuals’s Princess wore a white polka dot gown, with an identical hat and two-toned sneakers, very similar to Middleton’s unique look in 2023.

princess-diana-1988-royal-ascot — Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 – 1997) attends the Ascot race assembly in England, sporting a black and white noticed gown by Victor Edelstein and a Philip Somerville hat, June 1988. (Picture by Jayne Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Photographs)

Princess Kate has usually paid homage to her late mother-in-law, and does so whereas shining a light-weight on the British vogue trade and sustainability. Her look this Thursday was no totally different and was quintessentially reflective of her timeless model ethos of getting probably the most out of her wardrobe.

Take earlier this week, when the Princess wore a plum Emilia Wickstead coat-dress and Jane Taylor bow hat on the VE Day navy procession. An ensemble worn initially in 2022 for the President of South Africa’s state go to to the UK, her outfit additionally featured the heirloom pearl earrings.