The Princess of Wales selected an Alexander McQueen blazer and Knatchbull shirt for at the moment’s match on the Women’s Rugby World Cup.

The match was held at AmEx Stadium in Falmer, close to Brighton, with England taking up Australia. We be taught extra from this Daily Mail story. 

The sport marks the ultimate of the group stage of the Ladies’s Rugby World Cup, with England presently sitting on the high of the leaderboard, and Australia presently in second place. 

England, who’re ranked the primary aspect on the planet, shocked the US with a 69-7 win within the first spherical earlier than one other sturdy efficiency to win 92-3 towards Samoa final weekend.

Earlier than the match, the Princess frolicked with the group. 

Under, 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 private message to the group as competitors obtained underway. 

A greater view of the Princess is obtainable on this picture.

Roughly 200 miles away, Prince William watched the Wales group tackle Fiji in a match the Welsh group misplaced. He’s the patron of the Welsh Rugby Union.

The Princess, as she arrived at her seat. 

The match was bought out with greater than 30,000 followers within the stadium.

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

And doing the wave.

When time was up, England’s Purple Roses have been victorious. 

England’s subsequent match is towards Scotland on Sunday, September 14.

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

A fast video posted by the Red Roses. 

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

— Purple Roses (@RedRosesRugby) September 6, 2025

One other view. 
 It appeared like everybody was elated and really a lot having fun with the victory.

Chatting with gamers. 

And a proper group shot.

The Princess additionally greeted followers exterior the stadium. 

Now for our have a look at what Kate wore, starting with a brand new blazer (not less than new to these of us protecting the Princess’s type), an Alexander McQueen design, the Peak Shoulder Crepe Blazer ($2590).

The jacket is a traditional McQueen lower that the Princess has worn in different colours. It’s crafted of a viscose/acetate mix with angled flap pockets, peaked lapels, double again vent, and single-button entrance closure.

Beneath the jacket, the Princess introduced again the Knatchbull shirt first famous in May of this year at a British Trend Council awards ceremony. 

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

The trousers worn at the moment seem like the Roland Mouret Axon type the Princess has worn on a number of events.

The Princess carried her Chanel Mini-Flap Bag in Lambskin once more, proven beneath at a earlier engagement. 

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

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The black jacket and trousers make sense, because the Royal Household is in a interval of official mourning following the loss of life of the Duchess of Kent. Right here is yesterday’s Buckingham Palace announcement on social media.  

And the publish from Kensington Palace. 

Extra concerning 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 primary untitled girl in additional than a century to marry into the Windsor household “agency”.

Under, the couple at their 1961 wedding ceremony. 
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We return to the Occasions piece. 

Regardless of retiring from royal duties in 2002, she successfully changed one type of service with one other. For 13 years she taught music at Wansbeck major faculty in Hull, travelling there by practice from London, unrecognised and unnoticed. “I used to be simply generally known as Mrs Kent,” she stated. “Solely the top knew who I used to be … There was no publicity about it in any respect, it simply appeared to work.”

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

Under, the Duchess as she arrived for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding in 2019. (If the gown seems acquainted, it’s the identical Erdem design worn by the Duchess of Cambridge for the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show.)

The funeral service will likely be on September 16 at Westminster Cathedral. I anticipate the Prince and Princess of Wales will likely be amongst these attending the service, though there isn’t a affirmation of that at this level.