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Princess Charlotte dressed with purpose on Sunday.
The 10-year-old attended Easter services at St George’s Chapel in Windsor with her parents and siblings. It will be the first time the Welsh family will attend Easter since 2023.
Underneath a custom catherine walker coat in oatmeal with chocolate brown velvet accents, Charlotte wore a pastel blue pleated chiffon self-portrait dress ($335) with layered capelet and bow at the neck.
She completed her look with dark brown Tory Burch cap-toe ballet flats. It was the same pair she wore on her family’s Christmas walk at Sandringham last year.
The coat was also worn again for that December outing, and discerning royal watchers noted its striking resemblance to a Catherine Walker design worn by Kate, 44, for her first royal engagement in 2011.
But the most distinctive detail was the color of Charlotte’s dress. The Princess of Wales has long favored blue for Easter, wearing blue in 2019, 2022 and 2023, with Princess Charlotte herself wearing powder blue to match her mom the first year.
This time, Middleton changed things up and appeared in her first cream self-portrait midi dress of 2022. She paired it with Ralph Lauren Celia pumps ($750), deep toffee Demelier Nano Montreal bag ($330), Queen Elizabeth Bahraini pearl drop earrings, and Juliette Botterill oak leaf teardrop hat (£680, about $900).
Middleton’s white color symbolized rebirth after two years away from military service – during which she underwent cancer treatment and later announced she was in remission – while Charlotte quietly continued her family’s blue tradition.
In her book The Royal Wardrobe, fashion historian Rosie Hart explains that blue served as a “more palatable alternative” to other traditional royal colors, being “much less aggressive than red and considerably more conservative than purple.”
This shade conveys peace, stability and modernity, allowing Welsh people to rely on tradition without being stuck in the past. It connects the young princess with a line of royal women from Queen Mary to the Empress Dowager, who often coordinates Misty Blue with her daughters.
Royal photographer Chris Jackson, who recently spoke to Page Six about watching the Welsh children grow up, described Princess Charlotte as having “amazing poise” and called her “a mini-version of Kate.”
On Sunday she dressed for the role.
