Kate Middleton wore a black Alexander McQueen coatdress and Meghan Markle opted for a Stella McCartney cape dress. Both wore pearls, per royal household tradition.
Catherine, Princess of Wales and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, wore head-to-toe black, and pearl jewelry, at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
In carrying pearls, they adhered to a mourning customized first added in the age of Queen Victoria. She wore them with her all-black outfits following the dying of her husband, Prince Albert. Pearls are thinking to signify purity, but also tears, and the British royal family has persisted the tradition.
Kate Middleton wore a black coatdress from Alexander McQueen, which she additionally owns in white, and which she earlier wore to ultimate year’s G7 summit in Cornwall, England. She teamed it with a black hat with a netted veil and wore the queen’s Japanese pearl choker which consists of four strands joined by a diamond clasp.
The pearls have been a gift from the Japanese government, and the queen had them made into a necklace. The queen wore the choker for the first time in the early 1980s, and later loaned it to Princess Diana in 1982 for a kingdom go to to the Netherlands.



Middleton wore the choker for the first time in 2017 to the 70th’s wedding anniversary dinner of the queen and Prince Philip.
Meghan Markle arrived wearing a black cape costume via Stella McCartney, who designed the halter pinnacle costume she wore to her wedding reception. She has previously worn a comparable navy dress, also by way of McCartney.
Markle additionally wore a Stephen Jones hat with a extensive brim. Her pearl rings are understood to have been a present from the queen for their first joint engagement together after Markle married Prince Harry in 2018.
Later on Monday, Middleton and Markle will travel to St George’s Chapel for a non-public household provider at Windsor Castle, where the queen will be laid to rest.
The pair, whose family members have been frosty for the higher section of two years, had been first reunited in public at Windsor Castle on Sept. 10 to greet contributors of the public outdoor with their husbands, Princes William and Harry.


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