Kate Middleton’s best outfits, looks and fashion choices

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It’s no surprise that people are obsessed with the royals, and that continues to include Kate Middleton, who earlier this year made headlines when rumors spread about her monthslong absence. In March, the Princess of Wales announced her cancer diagnosis and that she is undergoing chemotherapy, and in June she made her first public appearance since the announcement to much support.

While we’re happy to have Kate back, we’re also excited to see her continual style, as she has built a reputation as a chic and quintessentially British dresser. Whatever the occasion, her preppy coats, occasional tweeds, unfussy dresses, occasional hats, and love of color continue to keep the public guessing. Here, we look back at her most memorable fashion moments over the years, from her royal wedding to her time on the red carpet for the BAFTAs and No Time to Die to her many royal engagements. We’ve rounded up all the best outfits and looks below and will update as she continues to make public appearances this year.

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Kate made a tentative return to public life for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer, attending the Trooping the Colour military parade in central London on June 15, 2024. She paired a white gown with a matching hat for one of her signature styles. Photo: AFP via Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate with Prince Louis of Wales at the Christmas Day service at St. Mary Magdalene church in 2023. Kate wore a lovely blue Alexander McQueen coat. Photo: UK Press via Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate in all white at the “Together at Christmas” carol service at Westminster Abbey in December 2023. Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Expand Photo Kate in a tiara and all during an evening reception for members of the diplomatic corps at Buckingham Palace in London in December 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Royal Variety Performance at Royal Albert Hall in November 2023, she wore a royal-blue gown from Safiyaa. Photo: WireImage
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In November 2023 at a ceremonial welcome for the president and First Lady of the Republic of Korea at Horse Guards Parade in London, she wears a bright-red coatdress with a bow by Catherine Walker. Photo: WireImage
Expand Photo Kate embraces a power-suit moment with this one from Emilia Wickstead at the Shaping Us National Symposium at the Design Museum in London in November 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate channels Scotland with this Burberry coat while arriving in Moray for a visit to the charity Outfit Moray in November 2023. Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Expand Photo Kate visits Nottingham Trent University in a cream ribbed set by Sézane in October 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo The Princess of Wales visits Vsi Razom Community Hub in another chic outfit. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo Another hat for Kate at a service to commemorate the life of Queen Elizabeth II at St. Davids Cathedral in September 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo In July 2023, Kate waiting to present the trophy to winner Carlos Alcaraz during the Wimbledon Championships. Photo: CameraSport via Getty Images
Expand Photo She wore another green look from Self-Portrait the day before. Photo: WireImage
Expand Photo Prince William and Kate arrive for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey in official wear by Alexander McQueen in May 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate and Prince Louis at the traditional Easter Sunday Matins service at St. George’s Chapel in April 2023. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate in a one-shoulder Alexander McQueen gown for the 2023 British Academy Film Awards in London. Photo: POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Expand Photo William and Kate watch an NBA basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the Miami Heat in November 2022, mastering the art of sideline dressing. Photo: Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate attends Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse in June 2022 in a brown polka-dot dress by Alessandra Rich. Photo: WireImage
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Expand Photo Kate with her daughter, Princess Charlotte, after the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Photo: AFP via Getty Images
Expand Photo During her visit to the Karolinska Institute in January 2018, she wore a bold plaid jacket. Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage
Expand Photo Kate at the Passchendaele commemorations in Belgium in July 2017. Photo: 2017 Getty Images
Expand Photo In Cambridge for a briefing to announce plans for Heads Together ahead of the 2017 Virgin Money London Marathon. Photo: John Phillips/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the U.K. premiere of A Street Cat Named Bob in November 2016. Photo: 2016 Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate at the Mauritshuis gallery during a solo visit to the Hague in October 2016. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo With William in Vancouver in September 2016. Photo: Pool/Sam Hussein/WireImage
Expand Photo Visiting Youthscape at Bute Mills in August 2016. Photo: Getty Images

Expand Photo At the second day of Royal Ascot in 2016. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo Arriving at Windsor Castle in June 2016. Photo: Matt Dunham/AFP/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate at a celebratory 90th-birthday service for Queen Elizabeth in June 2016. Photo: WPA Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate in Emilia Wickstead at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in New Delhi in 2016. Photo: Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London in 2015. Photo: Mark Cuthbert/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate in Jenny Packham at the St. Andrews 600th-anniversary dinner in New York City in December 2014. Photo: © Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
Expand Photo In June 2014 at Prince Philip’s 93rd-birthday party at Buckingham Palace in Alexander McQueen. Photo: JOHN STILLWELL
Expand Photo At the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings in 2014. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Expand Photo Visiting the Strathearn Community Campus in Scotland in 2014. Photo: James Whatling/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
Expand Photo In Winmalee, Australia, in a dress by Diane von Furstenberg in 2014. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the St. Patrick’s Day parade at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, England, in 2014. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Portrait Gala in London in February 2014. Photo: James Whatling/� Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
Expand Photo The princess with Prince William at the royal family’s traditional Christmas service in 2013. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo With her son Prince George of Cambridge, after his christening at the Chapel Royal in St James’s Palace in London, in a suit by Alexander McQueen in October 2013. Photo: WPA Pool/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo In a dress by Jenny Packham alongside Prince William at the Tusk Conservation Awards at the Royal Society in London in 2013. Photo: WPA Pool/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo Off duty in August 2013 at the Ring O’ Fire ultramarathon in Anglesey, Wales. Photo: Paul Lewis – WPA Pool/Getty Images

Expand Photo With Prince William and their newborn son outside St. Mary’s Hospital in London in a dress by Jenny Packham in 2013. Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Expand Photo Kate next to Camilla on the balcony during the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London in June 2013. Photo: Chris Jackson/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo In June 2013 with Prince William at the 60th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation at Westminster Abbey in London.
Expand Photo Kate with Prince Charles and Camilla at a garden party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace in 2013. Photo: WPA Pool/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo At the inauguration of Warner Bros. Studio Tour London in Watford in a Topshop dress in 2013.
Expand Photo Celebrating the Art Room charity at the National Portrait Gallery in London in April 2013. Photo: Tim P. Whitby/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo In a patterned green Mulberry dress at the National Review of Queen’s Scouts at Windsor Castle in 2013. Photo: WPA Pool/2013 Getty Images
Expand Photo Visiting the 1st Battalion Irish Guards at the 2013 St. Patrick’s Day parade in Aldershot. Photo: Jeff Moore / Splash News/? www.splashnews.com

Expand Photo At the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards in a dress by Alexander McQueen. Photo: David Davies/AP
Expand Photo Kate at the opening of the Natural History Museum’s Treasures Gallery in another green Mulberry dress in 2012. Photo: WPA Pool/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo At the launch of the Football Association’s national football center at St. George’s Park in England in 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo Arriving at Honiara International Airport in Honiara, Guadalcanal, in September 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo With Prince William visiting Assyakirin Mosque in Malaysia in September 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate with Sultanah Tuanku Haminah binti Hamidun at an official dinner hosted by Malaysia’s head of state in September 2012. Photo: Pool/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo Visiting Singapore in 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/2012 Getty Images
Expand Photo With Prince William on a Diamond Jubilee Tour in Singapore in 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/2012 Getty Images

Expand Photo Kate at the 2012 U.K.’s Creative Industries reception in London in a Roksanda Ilinčić dress. Photo: Indigo-Pool/Getty Images
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Expand Photo In 2012, visiting the Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London in Orla Kiely. Photo: Danny Martindale/WireImage
Expand Photo Arriving at St. Pancras station in London in a suit by LK Bennett and hat by James Lock in 2012. Photo: Anthony Devlin/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo Visiting the Fortnum & Mason store in London in an M Missoni coat in 2012. Photo: Ben Pruchnie/FilmMagic
Expand Photo At the Rose Hill school in Oxford in a coat by Orla Kiely and shoes by Aquatalia in 2012. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo At Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool on Valentine’s Day in 2012. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Expand Photo With Prince William on Christmas Eve in 2011 in a sheepskin jacket by LK Bennett, sweater by Temperley, and green Wellies. Photo: Newsteam
Expand Photo With Prince William at the Sun’s 2011 Military Awards in London in Alexander McQueen. Photo: Arthur Edwards/AFP/Getty Images
Expand Photo In 2011 at a Gary Barlow benefit concert at the Royal Albert Hall in a dress by Zara and blazer by Ralph Lauren. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images

Expand Photo At a Remembrance Day service in November 2011 at the Cenotaph war memorial in London in a coat by Diane Von Furstenberg and a hat by Jane Corbett. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate at a charity gala in London in 2011 in Jenny Packham. Photo: WPA Pool/Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo Visiting a UNICEF emergency-supplies center in Copenhagen in November 2011 in an LK Bennett look. Photo: Phil Noble-WPA Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate at a charity gala in London in 2011 in a vintage Amanda Wakeley dress. Photo: Paul Burns/Clarence House via Getty Images
Expand Photo In October 2011 with Prince William. Photo: 100 Women in Hedge Funds/PA Wire
Expand Photo Visiting the Royal Marsden Foundation Trust hospital in London in Amanda Wakeley and LK Bennett shoes in September 2011. Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images
Expand Photo With Prince William visiting a community center in Birmingham, England, dressed Alexander McQueen in August 2011. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo Touring the exhibition of her wedding attire with the queen in 2011. Photo: Pool/Getty Images

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Expand Photo With Prince William at the ARK gala dinner at Kensington Palace in Alexander McQueen in 2011. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
Expand Photo With Prince William at the 2011 ARK gala dinner at Kensington Palace in Jenny Packham.
Expand Photo Meeting Barack and Michelle Obama at Buckingham Palace in May 2011. Photo: Toby Melville – WPA Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo The day after the wedding with Prince William at Buckingham Palace in Zara. Photo: John Stillwell – WPA Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo On April 29, 2011 (a.k.a. wedding day!), at Westminster Abbey in London in a gown by Alexander McQueen. Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images
Expand Photo Visiting Witton Park in Darwen, Lancashire, in a dress by Amanda Wakeley in 2011. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo Kate in Burberry visiting city hall in Belfast in March 2011. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo Launching a fundraising campaign at St. Andrews University in 2011 in a jacket and skirt by Luisa Spagnoli and shoes by Aquatalia. Photo: Danny Martindale/Getty Images

Expand Photo With Prince William at a reception for the Teenage Cancer Trust in 2010. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo In November 2010, announcing her engagement with Prince William at St. James’s Palace. Photo: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Order of the Garter procession in 2008. Photo: Tim Graham Royal Photos/Pool/Getty Images
Expand Photo At Prince William’s graduation ceremony in 2008. Photo: Michael Dunlea/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the 2007 Badminton Horse Trials. Photo: Indigo/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Cheltenham races the following year with the prince. Photo: Carl de Souza/Getty Images
Expand Photo At the Cheltenham races in 2006. Photo: Tim Graham/Getty Images
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