On Saturday morning Catherine, Princess of Wales, tiptoed back onto the public stage for the first time since announcing her cancer diagnosis last year in her signature color-coordinated way, joining the rest of the royal family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace for the traditional finale flyover of King Charles III’s birthday parade. She wore a white knee-length Jenny Packham dress with a black-and-white striped belt and a jaunty bow at the neck, topped off with a Phillip Treacy hat, angled just so. The nautical theme was reflected in the navy dress with a sailor collar and white trim worn by Princess Charlotte (who also wore white shoes to go with her mother), along with the matching double-breasted navy suits with their gold buttons, white shirts and bright blue ties of Princes George and Louis, all of which made a neat Union Jack trio with Prince William’s bright red military uniform — which in turn matched that of Charles and Prince Edward.
As a family unit, on the balcony, it created the image of a tightly controlled, unmistakably harmonic, unified front for a photo op set to go around the country. Nothing anxiety-provoking to look at here, the picture seemed to say. It’s business as usual.
Everything’s going to be fine. Advertisement It was a trademark bit of image-making on the part of the princess, also known as Kate, who is still in the process of recovery. Kate has always been finely attuned to the attention paid to what she wears as part of a family wh.
