By Katherine Tinsley
10:09am PDT, Oct 9, 2025
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"Where is my dress? If I had known… I'm sorry I didn't wear my dress today. Thank you for coming to see me," Kate Middleton told the young girls.
Kate chose to wear a gray Bella Freud suit instead of her typical frock.
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Since becoming the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton has leaned into more corporate clothing and muted colors.
"There is an absolute feeling that it [the public work] is not about what the princess is wearing," a palace insider
told The Times.
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"There will always be an appreciation of what the princess is wearing from some of the public, and she gets that. But do we need to be officially always saying what she is wearing? No," the insider continued. "The style is there, but it's about the substance."
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During the visit, Kate Middleton admitted that her three kids, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, would've loved to see the aircraft she viewed.
"They will be very upset that I've seen a Typhoon without them," Kate shared.
