As my colleague Emily Cronin wrote, the ‘Valeria’ coat’s cream colouring and lace pattern served as a reminder of the Cambridges’ wedding day in the same venue ten years ago and, more generally, of happier, simpler times when the Duchess in a coat dress was a regular sight on foreign tours, at church services and at pomp-and-circumstance royal events.
After a year of wearing high-street buys and old favourites for Zoom appearances and more relaxed in-person engagements, Kate’s Catherine Walker coat dress was her first new piece from the label, which specialises in classic occasion wear, since her tour to Ireland in March 2020.
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