By Katherine Tinsley
2:57pm PST, Nov 13, 2025
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While attending the Remembrance Day gathering, Kate Middleton and Sophie Wessex didn't stray away from showing emotion.
"With Kate sharing her balcony with Camilla and Sophie with the very frail Duke of Kent, both women seemed to prove how much they have inherited their royal behavioral legacy direct from the late Queen they were both so close to," body language expert Judi James told Daily Express.
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"Both women looked utterly regal with Kate standing to elegant attention wearing a suitably solemn facial expression, while Sophie stood in a very stoic pose on her balcony spot," Judi James continued.
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Queen Elizabeth II was known to maintain a stoic appearance during gatherings, while Kate Middleton and Sophie Wessex took a different approach.
"There was only some slight breaking from royal tradition under the 'Elizabeth rules' to suggest a modern evolution here: Kate couldn't stop herself from flashing a very warm, loving and admiring dimpled smile at husband William and his father as they walked back inside the building, while Sophie appeared at one point to have become more openly emotional as she wiped away a tear," Judi James said.
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"It was a quick moment though and, after one speedy dab with her gloved hand, she inspected the tip of her finger as though looking at the culprit, before regaining her stoic composure again," Judi James continued.
