The Princess in Alexander McQueen and Knatchbull for Women’s Rugby World Cup

The Princess of Wales chose an Alexander McQueen blazer and Knatchbull blouse for today’s match at the Women’s Rugby World Cup.

The match was held at AmEx Stadium in Falmer, near Brighton, with England taking on Australia. We learn more from this Daily Mail story. 

The game marks the final of the group stage of the Women’s Rugby World Cup, with England currently sitting at the top of the leaderboard, and Australia currently in second place. 

England, who are ranked the number one side in the world, shocked the US with a 69-7 win in the first round before another strong performance to win 92-3 against Samoa last weekend.

Before the match, the Princess spent time with the team. 

Below, the Princess as she walks to her seat with Jonathan Webb, the Vice Chair of World Rugby. The Princess is patron of the Rugby Football Union.

In late August, the Princess posted a personal message to the team as competition got underway. 

A better view of the Princess is offered in this image.

Roughly 200 miles away, Prince William watched the Wales team take on Fiji in a match the Welsh team lost. He is the patron of the Welsh Rugby Union.

The Princess, as she arrived at her seat. 

The match was sold out with more than 30,000 fans in the stadium.

Here you see the Princess with England captains Zoe Aldcroft and Marlie Packer.

And doing the wave.

When time was up, England’s Red Roses were victorious. 

England’s next match is against Scotland on Sunday, September 14.

After the match ended, the Princess visited the team’s locker room. 

A quick video posted by the Red Roses. 

A special visitor 🌹

The #RedRoses were joined post-match by our Patron, Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.#RWC2025 pic.twitter.com/b0xJHEShv5

— Red Roses (@RedRosesRugby) September 6, 2025

Another view. 
 It looked like everyone was elated and very much enjoying the victory.

Chatting with players. 

And a formal group shot.

The Princess also greeted fans outside the stadium. 

Now for our look at what Kate wore, beginning with a new blazer (at least new to those of us covering the Princess’s style), an Alexander McQueen design, the Peak Shoulder Crepe Blazer ($2590).

The jacket is a classic McQueen cut that the Princess has worn in other colors. It is crafted of a viscose/acetate blend with angled flap pockets, peaked lapels, double back vent, and single-button front closure.

Beneath the jacket, the Princess brought back the Knatchbull blouse first noted in May of this year at a British Fashion Council awards ceremony. 

The Cascade Ruffle Blouse ($595) is 100% silk with fluted, elongated cuffs and a cascading ruffle down the front. 

The trousers worn today look like the Roland Mouret Axon style the Princess has worn on multiple occasions.

The Princess carried her Chanel Mini-Flap Bag in Lambskin again, shown below at a previous engagement. 

The Princess wore her hair partially pulled back, and brought back her Cartier Trinity Earrings in white, rose, and yellow gold.

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The black jacket and trousers make sense, as the Royal Family is in a period of official mourning following the death of the Duchess of Kent. Here is yesterday’s Buckingham Palace announcement on social media.  

And the post from Kensington Palace. 

More about the Duchess from this Times of London obituary. 

When she married the Duke of Kent, the Queen’s cousin, in 1961, the duchess had been the first untitled woman in more than a century to marry into the Windsor family “firm”.

Below, the couple at their 1961 wedding. 
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We return to the Times piece. 

Despite retiring from royal duties in 2002, she effectively replaced one form of service with another. For 13 years she taught music at Wansbeck primary school in Hull, travelling there by train from London, unrecognised and unnoticed. “I was just known as Mrs Kent,” she said. “Only the head knew who I was … There was no publicity about it at all, it just seemed to work.”

Below, you see the Duke and Duchess arriving at Westminster Abbey for a service marking the 60th Anniversary of the late Queen’s Coronation in 2013.

Below, the Duchess as she arrived for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding in 2019. (If the dress looks familiar, it is the same Erdem design worn by the Duchess of Cambridge for the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show.)

The funeral service will be on September 16 at Westminster Cathedral. I expect the Prince and Princess of Wales will be among those attending the service, although there is no confirmation of that at this point.