Princess Charlotte dressed with intention on Sunday.
The 10-year-old joined her parents and brothers for Easter service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor — the Wales family’s first Easter appearance since 2023.
Beneath a bespoke Catherine Walker coat in oatmeal with chocolate-brown velvet accents, Charlotte wore a pastel blue pleated chiffon Self-Portrait dress ($335) with a layered capelet and a bow at the neck.
She finished the look with dark brown Tory Burch cap-toe ballet flats — the same pair she wore to the family’s Christmas Day walkabout in Sandringham last year.
The coat was a rewear from that December outing, too, and eagle-eyed royal watchers noted its striking resemblance to a Catherine Walker design Kate Middleton, 44, wore for her very first royal engagement in 2011.
But the most telling detail was the color of Charlotte’s dress. The Princess of Wales has long favored blue for Easter, wearing it in 2019, 2022 and 2023 — with Charlotte herself matching Mom in powder blue that first year.
This time around, Middleton switched it up, stepping out in a cream Self-Portrait midi dress she first wore in 2022. She paired it with Ralph Lauren Celia pumps ($750), a DeMellier Nano Montreal bag ($330) in deep toffee, Queen Elizabeth’s Bahrain pearl drop earrings and a Juliette Botterill Oak Leaf Teardrop hat (£680, or about $900).
While Middleton’s white symbolized renewal after a two-year absence from the service — during which she underwent cancer treatment and later announced her remission — Charlotte quietly carried the family’s blue tradition forward.
In her book “The Royal Wardrobe,” fashion historian Rosie Harte explains that blue serves as a “more palatable alternative” to other customary royal colors, describing it as “far less aggressive than red and significantly more conservative than purple.”
The shade telegraphs peace, stability and modernity, allowing the Waleses to lean into tradition without looking stuck in the past. It connects the young princess to a lineage of royal women, from Queen Mary to the Queen Mother, who frequently coordinated with her daughters in misty blues.
Royal photographer Chris Jackson, who recently spoke with Page Six about watching the Wales children grow up, described Charlotte as having “great poise” and called her a “mini version of Kate.”
On Sunday, she dressed the part.
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