The Princess of Wales slice a sombre figure as she attended the Remembrance Sunday provider in London right now, along with other senior associates of the Royal Household.

Kate, 40, wrapped up heat in a black coat, which was adorned with 3 poppies, and a matching hat as she arrived alongside the Prince of Wales to check out King Charles, 73, and Prince William, 40, lay wreaths to pay back respects to Britain’s war dead.

Charles will lay a new poppy wreath incorporating a ribbon of his racing colours, with the structure a tribute to the kinds used by both his late mom and his grandfather George VI.

Meanwhile Massive Ben will chime eleven times at 11am, as it returns to support just after yrs of servicing and maintenance.

As Charles potential customers the nation at the Cenotaph for the to start with time as King, the provider will be a poignant second for the Royal Household. In a going ceremony on Friday, the late Queen and her motivation to war veterans was remembered in an evening attended by customers of the royal relatives which include the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Anne.

In the meantime, the Princess of Wales cut an equally dignified determine as she stepped out in an all-black ensemble at the yearly Festival of Remembrance very last night.

Mother-of-3 Kate joined other senior royals as they attended the yearly function hosted by the British Legion at London’s Albert Corridor.

It was a person of a sequence the royals are attending to commemorate the nation’s war useless, ahead of modern Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph in Whitehall. 

And the royal also paid out tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, by donning two items of the late monarch’s jewelry – drop pearl earrings and a pearl choker.

Dressing in all-black outfit for the night engagement, Kate chose a belted Self Portrait robe, that includes a midi skirt topped with a blazer. She has previously worn the same robe in ivory.

Preserving the appear easy, she coordinated the frock with a pair of pointed black pumps, and sheer black tights, as nicely as a small black clutch bag.

She wore her shiny brown locks in a basic down do, permitting her tresses fall down her back again. In the meantime, her make-up was uncomplicated and elegant, with a dim smokey eye, and purely natural pink lip. The only splash of color on the sombre outfit was her three purple poppies. 

Even though the palace has never confirmed the cause the royal dons more than one particular, it has been speculated that the 3 bouquets signify three of her relations who ended up killed for the duration of the 1st World War.

Kate’s add-ons were being the focal place of her outfit, with her pearl earrings and choker getting a specific this means.

Each parts when belonged to Queen Elizabeth, who was photographed sporting them a number of instances all through her 70-12 months reign. They had been also worn by Diana, Princess of Wales on some situations. 

The necklace, described as a Japanese choker, attributes with four rows of pearls and a curved central diamond clasp. It is said to have been commissioned by the Queen applying pearls which have been a present from the Japanese governing administration just after her first state stop by to the country in 1975. 

Her Majesty the Queen was pictured putting on the established for the duration of an engagement in Bangladesh in 1983, getting loaned the established a yr earlier to Diana to dress in for the duration of a condition visit from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Kate was noticed wearing the necklace to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh’s 70th marriage anniversary meal in 2017.

In the meantime the Bahrain Pearl Diamond Drop Earrings, which also arrived from Her Majesty’s private collection, were being also worn by Diana in 1982. 

They were being crafted from pearls gifted to the Queen and Philip from the ruler of Bahrain at the time of their wedding day in 1947. The monarch famously wore the jewels in her initial Royal Command portrait by Dorothy Wilding in July 1952.

She then wore the earrings many times all over her reign, and she has also lent them to her daughter-in-regulation Sophie Wessex, 57, on occasion. 

This is not the 1st time Kate has borrowed the earrings. She initial wore them in 2016 for the Remembrance Working day support at Westminster Abbey. She also wore them to go to Prince Philip’s funeral in 2021.

Previous night’s celebration marked King Charles’ 1st Remembrance Day as monarch. 

The support doubled as a tribute to the late Queen and her contribution to the result in, as Royal British Legion patron, the longest serving Commander-in-Main of the British Armed Forces and the former Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor soon after growing by way of the ranks of the Auxiliary Territorial Services as a driver, mechanic and junior commander.

Her loved ones – and the country – watched on as archive footage of the former monarch was played at the Royal Albert Hall. In one particular clip, the Queen spoke of the ‘tremendous contribution’ the Armed Forces manufactured to Britain’s ‘standing and reputation’ during her reign.

‘When Prince Philip and I had been married, Britain experienced just endured 6 years of war, emerging battered but victorious. Prince Philip experienced served with the Royal Navy in the Far East when I was in the ATS finding out to push an ambulance with care. The wartime generation – my technology – is resilient and it is with humility and satisfaction on behalf of the overall country, in fact the complete totally free world, that I say to you all: thank you.’

As nicely as the King and Queen Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, the occasion was attended by the Earl and Countess of Wessex, the Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Kent and Princess Alexandra.