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Kate chooses plum purple dress by Goat for Place2Be Forum

Kate Middleton at the Place2Be Conference
Mappin & Webb Empress Earrings

Mappin & Webb White Gold and Diamond Empress Earrings

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Mulberry Bayswater Clutch Bag

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Tod's Black Suede Block Heeled pumps worn by Kate Middleton

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Goat Eloise Tunic Dress in Plum

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On the 8th of November 2017, the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton) attended Place2Be’s School Leaders Forum at UBS in London.

Kate Middleton wearing the Goat Eloise Tunic Dress in Plum

Place2Be is one of the UK’s leading children’s mental health charities.  Kate’s been their Patron since 2013.

Kate Middleton meeting with the organisers of the Place2Be Forum

The forum addressed the topic of schools and the role they can play in tackling mental health problems in early life.

Kate Middleton at the Place2Be Forum in London

Kate opened the conference with a short speech, emphasising that “it takes a whole community to raise a child.”

Kate Middleton giving an address at the forum

She highlighted that a child’s outcomes later in life greatly are improved if they’re supported from an early age.  You can watch Kate deliver the speech below:

Watch The Duchess of Cambridge speak at the @Place2Be School Leaders Forum. pic.twitter.com/HRQlrJVHD1

— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) November 8, 2017

After, Kate joined conference delegates.  She heard from a number of leading experts on the topic of children’s mental health.

Kate Middleton sitting in the audience at the Place2Be School Leaders Forum

She also wrote a letter that was featured in the forum’s program.  You can read it below. (Kindly shared by People Magazine’s Simon Perry).

Note: The letter has a new photo of Kate at the bottom.  It looks like she’s wearing the Catherine Walker suit from her visit to the Netherlands earlier this year. 

Kate attended the conference as part of her ongoing work in the field of children’s mental health and wellbeing.

Kate Middleton at the Place2Be School Leaders Forum

In a statement, Kensington Palace said that Kate is “championing school support” for children’s mental health and that topic is one of her “key priorities”.  Of course, this isn’t Kate’s first Place2Be conference.  She also attended in 2013.

Kate visiting Place2Be wearing MaxMara "SportMax" Moto Jacket

During the conference, Kate revealed that she’s now well enough to take George to school in a morning.  Of course, she famously missed Prince George’s first day in September due to her pregnancy-related illness, Hyperemesis Gravidarum.

Prince George and Prince William

Kate’s outfit:

Kate chose a new dress for the Place2Be forum.  It’s by British designer label Goat.

Kate Middleton's outfit at the Place2Be Forum. She chose a plum purple dress by GOAT

The plum coloured dress is known as the Eloise style.  It’s an A-line tunic dress with three-quarter length sleeves and a high neckline.  The dress has four decorative buttons on the shoulder.

Goat Eloise Tunic Dress

The tunic comes in four different colours: plum purple (as worn by Kate), marigold yellow, navy blue and black velvet.  They retail for £480 GBP / $640 USD (except for the black velvet version which is more expensive).

Goat Eloise Tunic Dress in Dark Navy
Goat Eloise Marigold Yellow
Goat Eloise Tunic in Black Velvet

Kate chose black suede accessories to coordinte with her plum purple dress.  You may recognise her Mulberry Bayswater wallet?  She carries it often.

Mulberry Bayswater Clutch Bag in Black
Mulberry Bayswater Clutch Bag

Kate owns the clutch bag in three different colours to our knowledge.  It features a gold-tone turn-key closure on the front.  Sadly, Mulberry no longer stocks the Bayswater clutch as it’s from an older season. If you want to copy Kate, you can still find the bag on eBay in multiple colours.  Or, try Mulberry’s Darley clutch from the current season collection (it’s very similar).

On to Kate’s shoes now.  They’re by Tod’s.  Kate first debuted the black suede shoes last month.

Tods Black Suede Pumps
Tod's Black Suede Block Heeled pumps worn by Kate Middleton

The shoes feature a block heel and a streamlined pointed toe.  The Italian-made shoes can still be purchased from Reebonz.com in limited sizes.

Kate brought back a familiar pair of earrings for the conference.  They’re the Empress style by Mappin & Webb.

Kate Middleton's diamond earrings at the Place2Be conference
Mappin & Webb Empress Earrings

There are two versions of the earrings, both identical, one just has more diamonds.  I’m not entirely sure which pair Kate wears.  The cheaper pair retails for £1,500 ($1,965).  The more expensive pair is over double that price.

If you recognise the earrings, it’s probably because Kate most famously wore them for Princess Charlotte’s christening in 2015.

Catherine and Princess Charlotte after the christening

Steal Kate's exact style:

08 Nov 2017

Brands: Cartier | Goat | Mappin & Webb | Mulberry | Tod's
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Comments

  1. blueberries says

    November 8, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    Nice events this week. Well done, Kate!

    • Carly Wood says

      November 8, 2017 at 10:03 pm

      😉

  2. Greet Antwerp belgium says

    November 9, 2017 at 11:43 am

    She seems so a sweet lady with a lovely smile, always happy with the news we get from you…thanks

  3. Christine Yarnall says

    November 9, 2017 at 5:41 pm

    Stunning as always, what an amazing example ofclassand dignity for our young women topattern after. Well done.

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