Colour coordination has become one of the most utilised royal dressing tactics at Trooping the Colour, applied by the prominent members of the Royal family who are not in formal regalia.
The Princess of Wales has been developing this approach subtly since she made her first appearance at the event in 2011. In the years since, she has increasingly chosen to dress in coordinated outfits with her children and the wider family, an approach that creates visual harmony in that all-important photograph on the Buckingham Palace balcony. In times where the Royal family has been under particular scrutiny, it could be seen to symbolise unity.
For the 2026 incarnation of the event, the Princess gave the watching fashion spectators all this and more. This year, she chose a new ice-blue Catherine Walker & Co “Lafayette” coat dress with graphic pointed lapels, trimmed in white binding. It is nearly identical to a coat, made by the same designer, which the late Princess Diana wore in 1987 as she attended an Easter service in Windsor, holding the hand of a young Prince William, who was also dressed to match her.
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