Duchess Meghan looked stunning as she and the Duke of Sussex arrived at St Paul’s Cathedral for a service of thanksgiving celebratingQueen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee. The couple walked hand-in-hand up the flight of imposing steps to the cheers of the watching crowd and the pealing of the cathedral’s bells. Meghan wore an all-white outfit for the ceremony: a belted white ’50s style dress and a floppy white hat under the brim of which her hair was styled in an elaborate bun. She also wore her $13,000 Birks ‘Snowstorm’ diamond earrings in a very symbolic move—these are the earrings she wore on her very last engagement as a working member of the royal family, when she wore that emerald caped dress to a service in Westminster Abbey. (Read more about Meghan’s ‘Revenge Dress’ here.) Once inside the cathedral, Meghan and Harry took their seats with Harry’s cousins Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice and their husbands Jack Brooksbank and Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. It was announced ahead of time that the queen herself would miss the service, having experienced “some discomfort” during yesterday’s Trooping the Colour parade and her traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. However she was represented in St Paul’s by her sonPrince Charles, his wife Duchess Camilla, her grandsonPrince William and his wife Duchess Kate. The Duchess of Cambridge was photographed smiling and waving to the crowds in a lemon yellow coat dress by Emilia Wickstead, which she accessorized with a massive matching saucer hat. Somehow it’s not the yellow hat that she wore to Meghan and Harry’s 2018 wedding that she has worn on several occasions in the years since, but a completely different hat that looks almost exactly the same, featuring a big bunch of yellow flowers under the brim. Which begs the question, why not simply wear the original hat? She also wore a pair of earrings loaned by the queen, the Bahrain Pearl Diamond Drop Earrings, which Kate wore to Prince Philip’s funeral last year. Tomorrow Kate and William are being sent to Wales on a jubilee engagement while the Sussexes have a little party for Lilibet’s first birthday at Frogmore Cottage. Next up, From Pantyhose Protocol to Fancy Table Manners, 22 Royal Family Etiquette Rules
