Kate Honors Diana and Elizabeth II at Remembrance Events

Catherine, 44, watched the Remembrance Sunday ceremony from a balcony at the Cenotaph alongside Queen Camilla. She wore a black coat, a wide-brimmed hat and Princess Diana’s pearl-drop earrings, originally given to Diana before her 1981 wedding to then-Prince Charles. Three poppy pins and her HMS Glasgow brooch completed the look.

King Charles III and Prince William laid wreaths during the service. The three poppies worn by Catherine and other royals have been linked to several possible meanings, including the armed forces’ three services and the deaths of three of Catherine’s great-grandmother’s brothers in the First World War. The reason for wearing three has not been established.

At the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on November 7, Catherine wore earrings inherited from Queen Elizabeth II in 2016 and a black polka-dot dress she had worn previously, with several alterations. Prince Harry did not attend the Cenotaph ceremony. He instead stood with local people on a street in Brackley, Northamptonshire, wearing his medals and a poppy pin. Roughly 10,000 veterans marched past in London in a procession organized by the Royal British Legion.