As promised, we are back with polls on the many styles worn by the Duchess this past week. However, we have an update to Kate’s Calendar to take care of first.
Wednesday, June 22: Kensington Palace confirms a Daily Mail report that Kate will host a fundraiser for the EACH Nook Appeal at historic Houghton Hall, the stately home of the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley. This is where Kate took Charlotte and George to the horse trials. The EACH news release notes William will also be attending. “A Taste of Norfolk” will feature a champagne reception, 5 course dinner and performance by the Treehouse Choir. More from EACH:
A special five course meal will be served with courses created and cooked by five world renowned chefs: Galton Blackiston, Sat Bains, Claude Bosi, Tom Kerridge and Mark Edwards. The evening will also feature a number of exclusive highlights for guests, beginning with a champagne reception featuring musical entertainment by the Jefford Brothers and Sam Aldersey-Williams and magician Archie Manners.
You may recall Kate’s participation in the launch of the Nook Appeal in November of 2014.
From our 2014 post:
EACH hopes to raise £10 million for construction of a new hospice that would allow things like more overnight accommodations, more private family support areas and treatments such as hydrotherapy. Below, a rendering showing how the hoped-for new hospice would look.
She also took part in the formal opening of an EACH store this March.
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Now to our primary topic, polls asking for your favorites from this busy week of engagements.
Next week we will do jewelry polls, as well as our very last poll. That final poll will ask for your favorite overall look, what entire ensemble (clothing, hat, shoes, bag, jewelry) you liked the most. So keep that in mind as we do all of the polls for individual items. We begin with your choice of favorite dress/coatdress as a standalone item, not including accessories.
The week started with the annual Sports Ball celebrating SportsAid’s 40th anniversary. Kate wore the ‘Nansen’ gown by Roland Mouret.
A weekend of events marking the Queen’s 90th birthday started with a National Service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral when Kate wore a new Catherine Walker coatdress.
For the Queen’s Birthday parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, the Duchess brought back the custom Alexander McQueen coatdress first seen at Princess Charlotte’s christening. This is a tough one because the event precludes full-length photos.
We saw a new dress by Roksanda Ilincic at the Patron’s Lunch, a giant picnic on the Mall in London.
For Order of the Garter Kate wore the red ensemble by Catherine Walker first seen during the North American tour.
Kate chose her Day Birger et Mikkelsen brocade coat for the annual garden party in Northern Ireland.
Kate and William’s first time at Royal Ascot brought a repeat of the Dolce and Gabbana Cotton Blend Lace Dress first seen at the Queen’s Royal Windsor birthday spectacular.
NOTE: The ensue blue with the Tory Burch dress and Ralph Lauren jacket worn to the US Embassy for the signing of the Book of Condolence is omitted deliberately.
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In the chapeaux department there were quite a few new pieces and some previously worn favorites. At the National Service of Thanksgiving on Friday we saw the the Jane Taylor style first worn for Princess Charlotte’s christening.
Trooping the Colour brought a new hat by Philip Treacy.
For Order of the Garter Kate returned to a lush Lock and Company piece initially worn to the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in 2012.
At the next day’s Garden Party Kate sported a new piece by Lock and Company, the milliner’s Morning Rose Perching Hat.
For her first appearance at Royal Ascot Kate debuted the ‘Una,’ a new (to us) design by Jane Taylor.
(No hat was worn at the Sportsaid dinner or Patron’s Lunch.)
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In the footwear department, we saw just one pair of new shoes among the many styles worn during the hectic week.
At the SportsAid dinner, Kate was in Gianvito Rossi’s Sisely suede sandal. Unfortunately, I do not have a good photo of Kate wearing these heels.
For the Service of Thanksgiving Kate wore her Gianvito Rossi ‘Praline’ suede heel.
At the Patron’s Lunch walkabout the Duchess was in her LK Bennett Fern heels.
We saw new heels for Order of the Garter ceremonies, another pair of of Gianvito Rossi suede pumps, this time in a deep red.
When at the Garden Party on Tuesday Kate brought back her Fern heels by LK Bennett.
The praline Gianvito Rossi suede heels returned for Royal Ascot.
(There is nothing shown for Trooping the Colour because we did not see Kate’s shoes.)
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We now move to handbags, starting with the SportsBall, when the Duchess carried her Prada clutch.
For Friday’s Service of Thanksgiving Kate had her LK Bennett Nina clutch.
Once again, the constraints of Trooping the Colour impacted our ability to see the bag Kate carried, although there is one image The Daily Mail published that shows Kate carrying a clutch. It looks like the ‘buttercream’ suede version of the Mulberry Bayswater Clutch Wallet that we first noted on the April tour.
At the Patron’s Lunch the Duchess returned to her Nina clutch from LK Bennett.
For Monday’s Order of the Garter we saw the red suede clutch by Alexander McQueen again.
The Nina clutch by LK Bennett returned for the Northern Ireland Garden party.
Kate brought back a favorite for Royal Ascot, the LK Bennett Natalie clutch.

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Early next week we’ll have our jewelry polls along with the one asking for your favorite overall look, the ensemble you most liked.
sarah
Tuesday 21st of June 2016
i love you this blog. will duchess wear gown or dress at gala wendesday??
Raman
Monday 20th of June 2016
I don't remember Kate debuting so many earrings in such a condensed time frame! We saw three new pairs. Actually that was the case during her trip to India/Bhutan as well.
Regardless, always such a pleasure to see a new pair on her! :)
Waiting for the jewelry poll. I know how much ElizaMo loves that Mappin and Webb pendant. :)
ElizaMo
Monday 20th of June 2016
Oh, you noticed! How kind of you ;-) I do like it very much as it happens and if one were given to me I can quite see I might just carry on wearing it whatever outfit I had on!
ElizaMo
Saturday 18th of June 2016
I thought the top poll was a no-brainer, the Roland Mouret was such a stand-out look for the Duchess. And the Treacy hat stood out as exceptional, perfect for the occasion and stunning on Kate I also had no trouble picking out those red Gianvtito Rossi courts, such a relief to see the Duchess branch out into some serious colour for a change.
I was impressed to find my opinions coincided with the majority on the three whole polls, but I managed to avoid the popularity tag on the last as I couldn’t make my mind up about the bags. Here I stuck to safe, anonymous workhorse LKB Nina and picked it out against the colour-block Ilincic dress which I thought was a stand-out day dress. I was sorry to see the dress scored so low earlier, although on reflection the Nina was possibly a better match with the Thanksgiving outfit.
In fact I thought all Kate’s looks were well coordinated and thought-through and she has looked consistently lovely in the floods of photos we’ve enjoyed. She may have cracked the Royal thing, I think.
What lovely polls – thanks so much for all your hard work putting them together. Looking forward to the EACH date – do I sense some bling potential there? Fingers crossed!
Leslie
Saturday 18th of June 2016
Thanks for this wonderfully comprehensive post and these fun polls! Your website is always so thoughtfully done and a pleasure to read.
-Long-time reader and very occasional poster, Leslie.
admin
Saturday 18th of June 2016
What a lovely comment, thank you. :)
Carol
Saturday 18th of June 2016
Tough choices above because I really have to hand it to the Duchess...she looked fabulous this past week!
The one comment I'll make is about those Gianvito Rossi suede pumps in both red and praline. I studied them beside a picture of the nude LK Bennett Fern pumps, and while there is little difference in silhouette, somehow the Rossi pumps just look better on Catherine (my opinion, of course). The heel is slightly higher, and the Rossi shoe is perhaps more "structured" in that it doesn't curve so deeply toward the outside in coming around the toe---if that makes any sense. A beautiful shoe, indeed.
Still love those nude, platform LK Bennett pumps that the Duchess used to wear all the time...miss them! :-)