Duchess Kate and Prince William have done/will do a bunch of events through the course of the next week, so I’m going to break up the photos by event, okay? We’ll have the Remembrance Day pics tomorrow, for sure. These photos are just for the event on Saturday during the day, which is when Kate and William went to Wales to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pembrokeshire oil refinery. This was their first public event together since they returned from their Scottish “babymoon” vacation.
For the appearance, Kate wore BUTTONS!!! YAY!! Actually, they look more like big shiny balls, right? The pale blue coat is by Matthew Williamson and it retails for $2650 (at full price on Net-a-Porter). Kate has about a million coats, but her coat game can be a little hit or miss, depending on how you feel about double-breasted styles and buttons. I love the color of this coat and I think the wool-blend fabric looks great. It would have been great to see this without the shiny balls/buttons and maybe in a more modern single-breast. Underneath the coat, Kate wore a brown shirt dress from Hobbs that we only got a glimpse of when her coat blew open a few times – you can see a photo of the dress here (it’s nice). She finished up her ensemble with Aquatalia Rhumba boots and her green amethyst Kiki McDonough earrings, which I believe William gave to her for Christmas a few years ago.
If you’d like to read a particularly sugary account of this public appearance, go here to People Mag’s story. They literally noted when Kate smiled at a baby and one witness breathlessly reported, “That was her motherly instinct.” They also received a toy oil truck for Prince George from the refinery’s general manager, who suggested that William is probably going to keep it for himself.
Does anyone have an opinion on the theory that Kate is wearing a lot of blue lately because she thinks/knows she’s having another boy? My gut says it’s going to be another boy. My gut also says Blake Lively’s having a boy, so maybe my gut is just in an all-boy mood lately.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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