Kate vs Mary: the royal challenge with looks ends in a draw

We can confess it, we expected more. The highly anticipated encounter-clash between Kate and Mary of Denmark basically ended in a draw. The Duchess of Cambridgein Copenhagen for the second day of visit to Denmark for a trip between work and diplomacy, he met his direct rival in the championship of best dressed royals.

The hostess, perhaps so as not to disfigure the guest, went on the safe side with an outfit that has already been tested before. Undoubtedly very elegant, Mary lit up a look total black with a white Chanel overcoat.
Kate instead packed a brand new cachmere coat in gunmetal gray but very similar to others already in her possession for today’s appointment. The coat dress can only be of Catherine Walkerthe trusted tailor shop to which it mostly turns for official commitments.

There is also saw us in this garment a kind of replica of a Diana coat worn by the princess in 1984, however, created by Catherine Walker herself, the designer who passed away in 2010 whose business is now followed by her husband Said Cyrus. The coat in question with black lapels and cuffs has a much more feminine cut even though it is based on an 18th century navy frock coat.

Kate and Mary in common not only have taste but also a series of activities to carry out with their respective foundations. The British Duchess, promoter of her together with her husband William of the Royal Foundation Center for Early Childhoodin fact she arrived in Copenhagen to get to know the renowned Danish educational models aimed at early childhood but she also went to Danner Crisis Centera shelter for women and children victims of domestic violence supported by Mary Foundation.

The first day with an outfit that paid homage to the flag of the Scandinavian country he first visited the Copenhagen Infant Mental Health Project of the University of Copenhagen and then the Lego Foundation Play Lab where she gave herself a slip that is already a legend also because her outfit has managed to remain impeccable.

On the second day, however, she went to the discovery of a kindergarten in the forest where she enjoyed cutting a piece of wood. Her look was very similar to what she sports in similar engagements in the UK but, in another diplomatic move, replaced the Barbour with a similar jacket but from a Danish brand, Seeland.

Back in town, it’s time to slip on the coat dress of ordinance. Before going to lunch with Mary, Kate paid tribute to Queen Margrethe at her residence. The Danish queen is also celebrating an important milestone with the golden jubilee: if for Elizabeth the years on the throne are 70, for her “colleague” it is 50.

But let’s go back to our frivolities for a moment, the look of the day. There were high expectations for this day also because, as we said, the two are often compared. To do so, in unsuspected times, it was even Karl Lagerfeld who claimed that Kate could very well have been Mary’s younger sister.

The two had already met together in the past, once in 2011, again in Denmark and another in Ascot in 2016. A red and a blue coat in the first case and a white lace against a bright orange in the second.

Cases are also known in which the two future queens (both married two heirs to the throne) drew from the same fashion houses.
Probably in order not to obscure the causes that are close to their hearts, they both opted for an outfit without too many frills. Or maybe they did it in order not to feed any opposing supporters, thus deciding not to step on their toes. Feet that among other things wore the same model Gianvito 105 black by Gianvito Rossi, a suede pair for Kate and a leather pair for Mary. Two royals for a décolleté.

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