Kate Middleton's Amazing Fashion Evolution

Kate Middleton's Amazing Fashion Evolution
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Speaking Solo
Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge gave her first solo official remarks as a royal at the opening of the Treehouse Children's Hospice on March 19, 2012, in Ipswich, England. She wore a blue Reiss frock—the same dress that her mother, Carole Middleton, wore to the Ascot horse races in 2010.

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