The Duchess of Cambridge does love her “surprise visits.” I suspect that part of the reason why she does so many surprise events is because of security, although I also suspect that Kate doesn’t like to make too many firm announcements about her plans because she likes to skip work whenever possible. Who needs stories about “Kate shrugging off a scheduled event” when you can just do “surprise” events? Today, Kate made a surprise visit to the Natural History Museum in London. She’s patron to the museum and she was last there in October 2020, where she cosplayed a very specific look from Meghan.
For today’s event, Kate decided to forgo her usual “casual” styling of skinny jeans (or jeggings). She wore actual proper jeans, a Ralph Lauren top and a £1,795 pink Chloe blazer. She also wore £90 Veja trainers and a necklace by Daniella Draper. The cost of the Chloe blazer is… ridiculous. I get that it’s a trendy piece but there’s no reason for that price tag. That being said, I don’t hate the fact that Kate mixed it up a bit. We’ve been begging her to wear proper jeans for so long, and to just wear simple mix-and-match sportswear. So here we go.
The museum was closed for a time during the pandemic, and I think Kate’s visit is supposed to highlight the reopening. Plus, she got to pose with some kids and breathe on people. She’s had one of her coronavirus shots, has she gotten the second shot?
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Getty.
She has the same problem I have. Jeans that hit me right there don’t look intentional, they just look an inch too short. My good friend can do it, I cannot. I’m so glad that true ankle length is coming back for everyone else. It means jeans finally hit at the right spot on me.
I can’t do it either, I order longs in all my jeans. I do not like the look on her, people with long legs and that are tall look like the borrowed their short friends pants.. (my personal opinion) I like the look on shorter people.
The cost of the blazer is laughable.. it is not even cute. Only nice thing I will say is she looks better when she dresses more her age and casual.
Yeah – I think she looks good at first glance but thr specific pieces don’t hold up under closer inspection.
That blazer confuses me. Is she going on safari with Barbie and Ken? Did she borrow her meemaw’s jacket? What’s the deal with that very noncommittal color and the gathered back and the mini shoulder straps?
I can’t figure out what’s going on or why it cost so much just to confuse me.
Yes! I love the look on shorter people. I tried to make it work for a few years, but mine really need to barely show ankle skin, maybe even graze the top of my shoe to not look too short. I am proud of her for trying jeans other than jeggings.
I don’t think she has long legs, particularly for her height. She’s all torso. Either way it’s not a good look. I like the blazer well enough.
these jeans are supposed to be cropped 🙂
I actually think she looks good, but I did notice she did the rolled up blazer sleeves like someone else!
I can’t get on board with this trend of cropped jeans. My lord.
Neither can I. They look awful on her and that blazer was a bad choice too, especially for all of the jackets she has!
cropped AND high waisted?! big NO!!
Long blazer and short pants. Just doesn’t look “right”. Plus, with her shorter legs, the cropped pants just shorten her, even with the higher waist.
Now if she paired the jeans with a *cropped* jacket, it would’ve looked WAY better.
High waist is a bad look for her torso. Should have gone for low rise.
Nah, she looks great!
She looks cute here, but 1795£ for that blazer?! Too basic to justify that price tag.
The price tag is insane, esp considering she has other blazers she could have worn.
When was the last time we saw her wear a complete repeat outfit? And I dont mean just her jeggings or a pair of shoes. It feels like every time we see her now she’s wearing at least one new article of clothing that was $$$.
That blazer looks like something you could get at Macy’s for $125. Nope.
my God, I love that blazer. The fit! The sweatshirt cuffs!
Me too. Sadly they’re out of my size but I’ll keep an eye out for a high street dupe.
Best outfit she has ever worn. More of this please.
I think she looks great and also very on trend, which can be hard to do.
It’s like her vaccine shot photo. Clean, casual. She looks good.
This and the white Barbara Casasola. She and I have the same body type and I’ve been saying for years that she needs high-waisted crop jeans to even out her proportions. She finally got the proportions right and it only took a decade. Jeese.
Agree, love the whole thing. I want the blazer.
@whatever I agree. I like these jeans that all the young girls (ok 24 year olds lol) in my neighborhood are wearing.
How do I know this is one of her best looks? Because I’m actually tempted to google who makes these jeans—and not because I can’t look away from the car crash (like those beulah dresses that had to be an all time low).
Did it for you: per whatkatewore, these are from & Other Stories. And for those of you who don’t like cropped jeans, these come in regular length, too.
agree – very cute
I like the idea of the outfit but the jeans are a miss imo. A darker jean that wasn’t ankle length would have been better, I think, and as long as I’m nit-picking, a different color blazer would be nice, too. A with so much of what she wears, it’s never quite right. I swear her stylists purposefully make sure that she never looks too good or too put together.
I think she looks great too. To be fair to her, a couple of these photos are less flattering than some of the others at that daily mail link. There are some photos there where she looks perfectly lovely, with a genuine smile and I think that colour of pink is great for her skin.
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/22/14/44532147-9712717-Kate_could_be_seen_sweeping_her_soft_brunette_locks_out_of_her_f-m-41_1624367294149.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/22/19/44546693-9712717-image-a-38_1624385838575.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/22/15/44537877-9712717-image-a-58_1624372210385.jpg
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/06/22/19/44538543-9712717-Dr_Doug_Gurr_gave_the_royal_a_tour_of_the_museum_gardens-a-3_1624384890178.jpg
do you seriously think we will give clicks to the Mail??
She does look lots better in those linked pics.
I agree– that color of pink is really flattering on her and works great with the wash of the jeans. The price tag for the blazer is nuts and I don’t entirely ‘get’ some of the elements (like the cinched-in waist, enlarged lapel, or elastic cuffs) or necessarily think they all work together. BUT at least it’s an interesting piece? As someone who is long-torsoed, I love high-waisted jeans. I actually think if she had gone high-waisted ankle-length skinny jeans (NOT jeggings) this outfit would be better.
I agree, I actually like the outfit.
Yep. She looks great.
Like the casual look here. Nice jeans and they fit well. She has so many blazers in her closet that would have worked better but A for effort.
That engaement ring is so outdated now,but she sure loves it. Where i come from women either wear just their wedding bands or their engagement rings and band on top. Never seen someoene just rock their engagement ring when they are married.
What is the point of an engagement ring if not to wear it? I only have an engagement ring, decided not to have a wedding band because it would cover up some of the stones. I wear it every day, been married 11 years. I can nitpick all kinds of things about Kate, but not wearing her own engagement ring? Sheesh.
What is nitpicky about saying what the custom is where you are from? This did not sound like a criticism to me. You sound a little sensitive.
Where I’m from, it’s customary to match the wedding band to the engagement ring, so both are worn.
She does wear her wedding band, its just hard to see sometimes. But in the last picture in the post you can see the multiple bands on her finger.
If you zoom in on the main photo, she’s clearly wearing the engagement ring, her wedding band, and her eternity band. I’m sure she only wears the engagement ring out an about, given how large it is…I have a much more normal sized engagement ring, and it’s never on at home. But yeah, it’s very normal to wear your wedding set? All engagement rings end up looking dated after some time, but most people don’t care.
Wedding bands don’t go on top, they’re supposed to go on first, then the engagement ring.
Yep. The wedding band is supposed to be ‘closer to the heart’.
Unpopular opinion, but I think her engagement ring is ugly. It looks like costume jewelry to me.
Against custom, I wear my engagement ring first, then wedding ring. They are the same size, but the wedding ring stops my engagement ring from shifting around too much (especially as your fingers change in size depending on temperature, water retention, etc.) I guess I am paranoid that my engagement ring will fall off (I’m the third generation to wear it)!
I’m with JT. I think the engagement ring, and I know it was Diana’s, is awful. It always looks too big and bulky and ‘in the way’. I don’t know how she finds it comfortable. I think that’s why it has no intrinsic beauty for me – it just looks over sized and a bit silly.
I think Wills wanted that ring just for bragging rights. Charles apparently couldnt even be ars*d to pick it himself and Diana picked it because it was the biggest? Does not even have a romantic connection.
The engagement ring is a symbol of one of the most famous disastrous marriages in the last 40 years so I don’t understand why anyone would want to wear that ring. It could have been turned into a necklace or altered so that it’s less gaudy. It just symbolizes so many bad things.
I only wear my engagement ring. Of course, I never got the wedding band. Never saw the point in having both, I guess.
From the minute this ring went on her finger, it was intended to be worn forever.
I will never get onboard with high waisted jeans. My god. She is TINY and doesn’t even look it in these jeans.
She does always look better/more comfortable when she’s going casual.
I hate high waisted trousers! Besides the way they look, I don’t understand people who find them super comfortable: I had one pair and even though they were loose at the waist, whenever I sat down they would crush my stomach, I had to eat with them undone in order to avoid belly aches!
Also, mom jeans: is it me or do they attract attention to the crotch area?
It’s not just you. It doesn’t look good on most people. It’s very “pelvis/crotch” focused.
I’m super high waisted, so I love them, because they’re the only times pants or jeans sit at my natural waist. I feel comfy in them.
😄 And I LOVE high waisted jeans: holds in a bit of the tummy role you get as you get older, and as a shorter person, they make my legs look longer! Wide legged jeans are worn with platform sandals (shades of my teen aged years, when we called them “Elephant Bells”), “skinnier” jeans worn with “regular” shoes/heels/tennies depending on the ankle length and occasion.
Personally I’m not ready for mom jeans. If they look this way on her, as thin as she is, there’s no way it will look good on me.
I love the blazer though. It’s a beautiful color and I love the fit.
I agree. I love the blazer, but the jeans are incredibly unflattering on her.
she just cannot get it right. someone needs to save her from herself. Those jeans do not look like a good fit for her body. For the love of God, she could do so much better. And the sneakers, paired with the shoes, do not help this look. And yes, the price tag for this jacket is crazy.
+ 1 You’d think with all of Charles’ money, she could hire a stylist who can recommend the best types of clothing/fits for her body. She’s got Amal Clooney Syndrome — for fancy events, she mostly gets it right b/c she only has to pick a dress, but her “street style” is TERRRRIBBBBBLE. Just a bunch of super expensive pieces that don’t go together.
And can you imagine if Meghan showed up in an outfit like this? DM would be pearl-clutching for weeks about how wearing jeans to an event is a complete, total, disrespectful, “American” insult to the Queen and violation of centuries of royal protocol that spits in the face of the British public and is the direct cause of climate change and the destruction of rainforests!!!!
Nor are these jeans appropriate for a work visit to a Museum, unless she was digging up flowers in their garden. Oh wait, she wore a brand new expensive dress to plant a tree last year. She never gets it right.
I am so happy these aren’t 2009-style skinny jeans.
This is a nice outfit.
Eye roll.
Well, points for breaking out of her typical “casual visit” uniform! I like the overall look here, even if I don’t love how the jeans fit her at the waist – but at least this is a more modern look.
The surprise visits are weird at this point, right? I get that some visits are embargoed, and I get that visits to places like Northern Ireland are never announced in advance. But lately it feels like every visit of Kate’s is a “surprise” visit. Does she refuse to set her schedule in advance? They say that you have to book people like Charles months in advance. Something tells me that’s not true for Kate.
Honestly I doubt any royal visit is a true “surprise”. It is for us because we didn’t know she would go there but it would be a logistic and security nightmare if a royal just decided to show up on the day.
Oh I don’t think they’re a surprise for the place being visited (here, the museum), just a surprise for “us” – but it didn’t use to happen this often. Visits were announced, took place, end of story. Now it seems like everything is a surprise or embargoed.
It seems like another (poor quality) copycat of Meghan, to me. Except that Megan’s surprises were rollouts of fully developed projects (with a clear purpose, a call to action, and a way for the public to contribute) while Kate’s surprises are pop up visits and not much else.
I suspect the places know by now how Kate can cancel last minute so they are told to keep quiet in case she decides to flake out. Even one of the zoolander research events was “embargoed” for no real reason outside of the fact that she might have cancelled it.
Charles is booked in advance and so are most of the others. We don’t even hear of William doing surprise events. I think this is just code for showing how unreliable Kate can be for the few events she bothered with.
there are a lot of new commenters saying how amazing she looks. She is photoshopped to hell and back and wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a jacket. other than lengths etc hard to screw that up. I think she would at this point find it hard to find jeans that fit her. She’s too underweight. that’s the first thing I noticed.
I am now convinced more than ever that Kate’s position in the monarchy is extremely precarious. This is the most I’ve ever seen her work in recent memory. Perhaps it’s just a phase and Kate will get bored again, going off to get her face done and vacationing. But this sudden engagement and burst of work feels like her singing for her supper to keep William and the crown that comes with him.
CBers with more knowledge than me, please let me know if Kate has worked like this before. I didn’t really follow her in her early years as William’s wife.
Looking at the court circular, it’s pretty common for Kate to be ghost for a week-10 days + longer, come back and do engagements in a span of 2-3 days and then start the cycle again.
It happens sporadically. Like she’ll go dark for a month, then she does a flurry of engagements over 2-3 days, so it seems like she’s working, and then you won’t see her again for weeks. The engagements are usually timed around vacations – as in, I’m sure they’re planning to go away for a few weeks in July so she’s going to do some work now, and we won’t see all the pictures of it, they’ll spread it out so it seems like she’s working more (like she’ll do another event this afternoon that we won’t hear about for another week.) So if you look at her schedules in normal years, she’s “busy” in October/ November, usually February/March she works, and then again from late May to July she works. And by “works” for that last set its usually garden parties, ascot, trooping, and Wimbledon. So the term “work” is a little subjective, as is the term “busy” when talking about Kate.
I’m a bit surprised that she didn’t do Ascot this year but then again that is usually done with William present and he probably didn’t want to go.
She will likely to one more event before she shows up for Wimbledon and then we won’t see her for the summer.
Thanks all for your replies!
I felt like she was wearing the same shirt in the vaccination photos as she wore for her video announcement of “big crap signifying nothing”….like maybe she knocked it all out in a single day and ran home.
I like this outfit. Kate always does the casual/outdoorsey stuff best. Wish she would lean into that instead of the buttons
This look might have worked if she’d worn a less casual, more stylish shoe. Looks so basic and 80s Anaheim mall. What a waste of a pricey jacket.
Why is wearing an expensive blazer to an event in the forest/garden? Just a T shirt or one her Barbour jackets would have been more suitable. And how is it a surprise event if there is official video and photographers waiting to take her picture?
This is a cute outfit and she looks like a normal person instead of an alien like in the Dr. Biden photos.
I loathe those jeans on everyone, but props to her for wearing them. They’re fashionable right now, for some reason.
No, if something looks terrible on you, you should not wear it, regardless of the current fashion.
A registered nurse working 37.5 hours per week earns between £1300 and £1500 a month in the UK, after tax etc. Kate’s blazer alone costs more than that. I don’t think she has the mental capacity to even remotely understand the struggles of the ordinary person, let alone the most vulnerable.
Alleging to care about the early years of the disadvantaged while the price tag of her clothes says ‘I really don’t care, do you’ reveals the truth about this fraudulent Mother Theresa constantly virtue-signalling in her designer clothes and expensive jewels.
Good point.
People lost their livelihoods and the government was looking to cut food programmes for kids, but somehow people have stopped caring about the optics. It used to be a huge issue in 2018/2019 pre-pandemic era.
Kate looks cute. When she got her jab was the best she had looked in ages. And she looks happier in solo engagements.
And yes even commentators on this site used to go on about optics of Meghan’s spending so it’s interesting that there’s very little talk of that now when Britain’s economic position is even more precarious.
Why no one is pointing out that’s the bigger problem. Meghan no longer taking money from the public purse this woman is.. her centre won’t provide anything tangible to those struggling families.. her centre operates with the advice from Anna Freud Centre so what’s the point of her centre? sure it’s good to raise public awareness of early childhood but there’s no need for her centre when there are more competent people out there already doing the same thing!
There is no real difference between Kate and Melania on many levels. They have both lived very selfish existences. The only slight difference is that Melania wasn’t in her position for life.
The blazer isn’t right with the denim, and the style of the jeans is wrong for her body, but she does look more comfortable in sporty fashions.
I do love that blazer though…. it’s spring summer Chloé 2021 – and of course it sold out!
I think it looks cute, definitely better than jeggings. There is something about it that looks a bit Diana cosplay, maybe the lighter color and the big lapel giving it a slight 80s vibe? But…she already has quite a few cute blazers, did she really need one more? I’m not even in the UK but on behalf of their taxpayers I do wish she would recycle pieces more regularly. I think regular recycling might give the impression that she’s got more of a personal style also. Constantly showing up in new clothes makes it seem like she’s just chasing trends and doesn’t know what looks good on her.
I like her in those jeans – not a fan of the jacket in terms of the style and colour. Overall a good look for her.
If you hadn’t told me, I would have assumed that the blazer was from her pink M&S Elle Woods suit set. Missed opportunity for a “thrifty” repeat moment.
Fugly jacket at an exorbitant price. Ill-fitting jeans. Nice top and shoes. Pretty hard to f up such a simple idea for a casual outfit, but it’s business as usual.
I think these jeans would have looked better if the rest of the outfit was more chic (although agree with Red Snapper that low rise would be better for her frame). I do think the blazer is nice, but the color combination is a bit juvenile IMO and I think either a baggier t-shirt or a silk cami would have been a more polished look. Add pointy toed flats and voila.
Love wearing sneakers with jeans and a blazer. VP Kamala Harris can rock that but somethings not hitting quite right here. Would love to actually see this outfit with a pair of converse? Maybe that would help. But in this case a cute pair of flats might have worked better.
Ooh I cannot stand that blazer even before you get to the £££££££ price tag. Clearly my taste differs from other commenters on here but it’s giving me Matalan vibes. Would that be Target for US readers?
That blazer is truly ugly. Hate the sleeves.
Seriously fugly blazer, my god! The color, the fit, the cheap looking cuffs! And then paired with that ostentatious ring, makes it all worse. The mom jeans are not a good look for her, either. I guess I’m in the minority, but I think that when she wears jeggings, they suit her and she looks relaxed and younger.
Veja sneakers 👀 Meghan is not giving any new ideas, so let’s go back to the oldies 😜
I noticed that immediately! She’s wearing her Meghan cosplay sneakers today!
That’s a lot of money for ugliness. Kate face is aging like cottage cheese.
I have a similar body type with Kate Middleton and I avoid mom jeans, or jeans in general except skinnies. I always thought the reason why she still sticks to the skinny jeans must have been the fact that she looks horrendous in mom jeans. My guess was right, she really does. Stick to the skinnies, Katie.
I never thought she could top her worst look but this is almost as bad as this one https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/9687317/kate-middleton-striped-sandro-top-sale/
That was a terrible outfit!
I really love this outfit.
There are children in the UK whose parents can’t afford the price of their lunch. Kate has declared herself a champion for the Early Years. Whether she looks nice is completely irrelevant to me – the question is: ‘Is she believable, authentic, sincere?’
Her clothes speak for themselves, making the answer a resounding ‘NO!’
She is the Marie Antoinette of modern Britain.
The standards for Kate are so low. If she has a cute outfit I guess most people don’t care that the money used to sustain her spendthrift lifestyle is taken from the less fortunate.
The bar for human decency is in hell when your only real job is to look thin and uphold white supremacy.
I do too, she looks stunning.
“Stunning” is a stretch.
I think she looks decentish They make her thighs look thick but in a healthy way. It’s everything else I don’t like.
I love Chloe but I hate the jacket. I know it’s a a luxury brand but it is WAY too much money for a jacket that is not a classic. But I guess she needs to have her new clothes to work.
I read someone saying here that it was crazy that a woman like Kate (thin, tall) looks bad in a lot of her clothes. There’s something about her that can’t make clothes flattering. I see Mary of Denmark who is always so elegant and put together and Kate just falls flat.
I like the jeans. The style gives me a Parisian vibe. French girls really like this type of jeans.
I’m 100% with you on Mary of Denmark. She always looks put together, even when she’s very casual. She puts Kate to shame.
Good God, how on earth did she think this was a good look, what is de story with those jeans and that overly priced jacket, seriously elastic on de back, only Carol would pick this out !!!
I like the blazer except for the cuffs. I don’t understand the cuffs.
These people need to chill with their stupid so called engagements. Cases are rising again in the U.K. because of the Delta variant. Where are these peoples’ brain cells? If God has given you a brain, please do us all a favour and USE IT
Please – if you tuck your shirt into jeans – WEAR A BELT or button the blazer… I think she chose this blazer because it has a little bit of a Jurassic Park vibe without being too cosplay.
What a waste of fuel this is a 20min walk from Kensington Palace
You are right, BUT – this is my theory.
When I saw these pics I thought, ooh, that’s like the top and jeans she had on when she got her covid vaccine. Didn’t she get jabbed at the Natural History Museum?!
I reckon this visit happened on the same day she was jabbed and it’s been embargoed in the press until today. That’s my theory! But, it I’m right, then why on earth the need???
She seems to be spending even more than usual. Does she go shopping whenever Will is mean to her?
I like this outfit a lot! But her hair makes her look frumpy somehow even though it’s immaculate? I don’t know, something about that big wiggy looking hair is just ageing :-/
A ponytail would’ve been way more “in vibe” and youthful, esp. with this casual outfit/outing.
I think she looks fine – natural and not like she’s trying too hard. But I have to laugh a little at the blazer. A few years ago I was on a business trip to Paris and the wife of one of my colleagues wanted a Chloe jacket that cost $3,500. He told her, “Unless you can put a steering wheel on it and four tires, don’t even think about it.”
Someone teach this woman to accessorize to elevate her look, STAT!
She looks cute but the price on that blazer is absolutely insane. This woman is so wasteful it makes me sick. Like Becks1 stated above, when is the last time she repeated a whole outfit? I mean, she has literally dozens of blazers that have only been worm once that she could have worn here. Her wardrobe is just comical at this point for how much money she spends to do so little.
I like the idea of the outfit, right down to the color of the jacket. But I don’t care for that wide elasticized waist, it looks bulky. And yes, that’s a crazy price. That style of jean does make her legs look shorter, but she’s tall so I guess she can get away with it? I think a more streamlined cut for the blazer and a ponytail or less voluminous hair would have pulled it all together.
My goodness, when kate is featured, the conversation is all about what she is wearing. Question why?. What about what she is doing?. What are her plans during the visit?. Will it benefit anyone, but her as a photo op?. I really, really just can’t with her, I think you can tell. Oh i see jeans and jackets everyday, nothing new here, sorry girls.
Modern clothes good, but the proportions are all unbalanced. She tried, though.
I love jackets with jeans. It was a hot look when I was younger in the 90’s.
I hate this jacket. I think it looks polyester cheap.
And can she ever open her mouth without those claw-like hands waving around? I wish someone would tie her hands behind her back.
I think she looks good, not as thin as usual.
Big News!!!!!
Kate was wearing clothes to an event. Was this a photography event to be seen with a group of children from several ethnic groups? Was she raising awareness for something? I have sadly concluded that the people on that island are clueless and unaware because they pay millions of dollars to a family whose main job is to dress up and tell them to be aware of stuff.
I just cant with big wigs and unattractive clothes.
So many new commenters saying how amazing she looks. Stunning even! In jeans and a jacket??? and photoshopped to hell and back. Yeah, we know you’re stans or paid. so obvious.
I know….I’m laughing at “stunning”. At least save that over-the-top salivating for an evening dress. Sheesh.
The pictures taken from front of her face are heavily photoshop but from the side.. is she morphing into Baldimort?
Those two pigeons really get the face that they deserve.
She even wore Veja trainers as M!!
M wore hers I think when she dated H and by that time that brand wasnt very popular in UK ( I dare to say M introduced it to UK and become very popular especially with middle class mums)Look at K little miss copycat….its beyond ridiculous