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Kate in brown Catherine Walker coat dress for annual St. Patrick’s Day parade at Mons Barracks

Kate attends the St Patrick's Parade for the Irish Guard at Mons Barracks, Aldershot

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Today, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by visiting the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire.  You may recall that the Duke of Cambridge, William, was appointed Royal Colonel of the Irish Guards in February 2011.

Duchess of Cambridge attends the St Patrick's Day parade at Mons Barracks, Aldershot

The royal couple have visited the barracks and attended the regiment’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade every year since 2012.  This year, the couple arrived early and headed straight to the Officers’ Mess hall for a private visit, according to reporters.

Kate hands out shamrocks to Irish Guard officers

Later, the two royals attended the parade, and handed out springs of shamrocks to the officers.  According to The Mirror, this year’s parade is much smaller than past years, as the battalion currently has troops deployed around the world.

For a third consecutive year, Kate pinned shamrocks onto Irish Wolfhound Domhnall’s ceremonial tunic. Domhnall is the regiment’s mascot.

Duchess of Cambridge pins shamrocks on Domhnall, the Irish Wolfhound at the St Patrick's Day parade at Mons Barracks, Aldershot

If you skip forward to around the two-minute mark on the video below, you can see Kate has difficulty pinning the shamrock sprig to Domhnall, and it falls off when the dog walks away.

After the parade, William and Kate spoke with veterans, cadets, servicemen and women and their families.

Kate meets with cadets

Here’s a picture of Jeannel Duncan-Dolcy meeting Kate after the ceremony:

Jeannel meets Kate at the Irish Guards parade

Jeannel said “The Duchess of Cambridge just shook my hands and she loves the colour of my coat!” before adding, “Kate’s absolutely gorgeous in person and very polite.  I love her“.

Kate and William posed for a photo with the Irish Guard

The royal couple then joined the regiment for a private luncheon in the officers’ and sergeants’ mess.

Before the day was over, Kate and William had their photo taken with the Irish Guardsmen.  This photo is taken from the British Army’s Twitter page:

Duchess of Cambridge visits the Irish Guard

Kate’s outfit:

This year, Kate deviated from “tradition” by wearing a brown coat dress by Catherine Walker.  (The duchess has worn green outfits in the three years previously.)  It is thought that the coat dress is a bespoke piece.

The Duchess of Cambridge's outfit at the St. Patrick's Day Parade for the Irish Guard in Aldershot

Here’s a reminder of Kate last year, wearing the green “Persephone” trench coat by Hobbs London.  The Duchess wore an Emilia Wickstead coat dress in both 2012 and 2013.

Kate's St Patrick's Day outfits

Today, Kate wore her “Betty Boop” hat by Lock & Co.  You may recall the Duchess has worn this hat a number of times over the last three-four years.  Namely to previous St. Patrick’s Day parades and to the Cheltenham Festival in 2013.   The hat is no longer available for purchase.  It costed £245.  Here we see a screen capture of that from the Lock & Co website back in 2012:

Lock & Co Betty Boop Hat

Kate wore her brown suede platform heels by Emmy Shoes.  They are the “Valerie” style.  We show them in white from Emmy’s ready-to-wear bridal collection.  Emmy also has a bespoke appointment only service.

Emmy Shoes "Valerie" platforms

Here’s another look at the platforms, this time show in brown with the matching “Natasha” clutch bag (which Kate also carried today.)

Kate's brown Emmy pumps and matching clutch, via the Emmy Shoes Blog.

Kate wore her Kiki McDonough Citrine earrings, which feature a pear drop citrine stone set in 18ct yellow gold.  Kate’s worn these earrings frequently since at least 2011.

kiki mcdonough citrine drop earrings

Kate accessorised her outfit with the Cartier shamrock brooch she wore to the three St. Patrick’s Day parades previously:

Shamrock Brooch

The brooch is a royal heirloom.  Queen Alexandra first wore the brooch in 1901.  It has since been worn by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

We could see Duchess Catherine wore a brown pair of gloves today. The Royal Warrant-holding glove designer Cornelia James confirmed the Duchess owns their Imogen gloves in brown and says the Duchess wore them today.

Cornelia James Imogen Gloves in Brown

17 Mar 2015

Brands: Cartier | Catherine Walker | Cornelia James | Emmy London | Kiki Mcdonough | Lock & Co
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Comments

  1. Alix Romanov says

    March 17, 2015 at 9:34 pm

    Thank you for the post, as well as the video. The Duchess looks absolutely stunning!

    Kind regards,
    Alix

    • Carly (admin) says

      March 18, 2015 at 8:31 am

      Doesn’t she? She’s looked so regal and polished lately!

      Thanks for stopping by Alix 🙂

  2. Jenny says

    March 21, 2015 at 7:10 am

    I loved this piece you did on Kate and you may just of tempted me into some spring shopping. Coverage on Kate’s beauty secret caught my eye, which I covered in my blog (http://wp.me/p5PjVp-E) and I added a link to your blog. Hope you don’t mind. I am new at this and still learning blog etiquette 🙂

    • Carly (admin) says

      March 21, 2015 at 1:30 pm

      Hi Jenny,

      Thank you for taking the time to comment, and congrats on your blog! I keep meaning to add a beauty and makeup section to this site and collate everything we know about where to Duchess shops, what she buys etc.

      Have a great weekend,
      Carly

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