The Telegraph, it was carefully planned out to bolster the nation's spirits. She wrote: "Tuesday’s look... wouldn’t be out of place on the balcony of Buckingham Palace or in the Royal Enclosure at Royal Ascot (just add a hat)."It also, inescapably and almost certainly not accidentally, evoked the memory of another of Kate’s appearances at Westminster Abbey: her April 2011 wedding to Prince William."Could the coat be a nod to the couple’s 10th anniversary next month?"Only Kate can know for sure.
But using an official appearance on a national day of reflection to subtly remind Britons (and the world) of happier, simpler times, both for the UK (and the world, and the royal family), seems like just the masterstroke we’ve come to expect from.
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