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Wanting festive! Princess Kate was a stunning sight on the Royal Christmas Church service in Sandringham on Sunday, December 25.
The Princess of Wales, 40, wore her Sunday Better of an olive-colored coatdress and matching wide-brimmed hat. Kate accomplished the look with a pair of brown leather-based gloves, a brown clutch and delicate golden earrings.
The Duchess of Cornwall was joined by her husband, Prince William, and their kids — Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4 — for the event. King Charles III — who honored William, 40, and Kate’s regal duties in his first-ever Christmas handle — was additionally in attendance, in addition to Queen Consort Camilla and different members of the royal household.
The vacation marks the household’s first Christmas with out Queen Elizabeth II following her dying on September 8 at age 96.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the royals’ vacation plans in a press launch on Monday, December 19, per royal correspondent Omid Scobie. “Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort accompanied by Members of the Royal Household will attend the Morning Service on Christmas Day at Sandringham Church on Sunday twenty fifth December 2022,” the announcement learn.
In earlier years, the British royals spent the vacations at Elizabeth‘s Sandringham Home in Norfolk, England, usually visiting a rustic church to worship on Christmas Day.
Celebrating Christmas with out the queen will really feel “bittersweet,” a supply advised Us Weekly completely earlier this month. “[She] wouldn’t need them to mope or let that detract everybody from coming collectively and having fun with the event,” the insider added.
Sunday’s outing comes after the household stepped out for a vacation live performance at Westminster Abbey in London, which was hosted by Kate on December 15. That night, the Princess of Wales was a imaginative and prescient in a burgundy coat costume. The tailor-made quantity was completed with elegant gold buttons and squared shoulders. She paired the piece with coordinating maroon heels and an identical crocodile-embossed clutch. Charlotte matched her mother in the identical hue and Kate’s sister, Pippa Middleton, adopted swimsuit in a wine-colored belted coat costume.
Princess Kate and Prince William with Prince Louis, Princess Charlotte and Prince George. Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/Shutterstock
The occasion was the second annual Christmas carol live performance sponsored by The Royal Basis and was filmed to broadcast to the general public on Christmas Eve. Kate organized the primary musical soiree in 2021, dedicating the evening to first responders who supported the nation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
It seems Kate, who was given her princess title after Her Majesty’s dying, shall be taking up extra royal duties after Charles appointed the U.Okay. native as the brand new honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards. Kate takes over the function from William, who was given the glory by the queen in February 2011.
The 40-year-old Prince of Wales, in the meantime, is now the Colonel of the Welsh Guards as Camilla was appointed Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, a title beforehand held by Prince Andrew. (The late queen eliminated Andrew’s titles in January shortly earlier than his sexual assault lawsuit.)
