At the funeral of her great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, Princess Charlotte donned her first big piece of jewellery. The royal couple’s 7-year-old child came for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II with her mother, brother Prince George, and Queen Camilla.
To honour her late great-love grandmother’s of horses, Charlotte wore a diamond horseshoe brooch pinned to the left side of her black coat. The sentimental brooch was given to the young princess by Queen Elizabeth herself, according to PEOPLE.
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Charlotte also wore a hat to the Westminster Abbey service for the first time, as is customary for British women when attending formal events.
The late monarch was known for wearing her collection of brooches and royal jewellery on foreign trips for sentimental reasons or as a diplomatic gesture. It’s a fashion tip she passed on to the Princess of Wales, who has previously borrowed items from the late Queen’s collection for royal events.
The 40-year-old new Princess of Wales, who also wore two items originally owned by her grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, in tribute at her funeral on Monday. The Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings and four-strand pearl choker with centre diamond clasp, both from the Queen’s private collection, were worn by Princess Kate as she entered Westminster Abbey.
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The Bahrain Pearl Drop Earrings were a present to the Queen for her wedding in 1947, and Queen Elizabeth previously wore the eye-catching choker for a state banquet in Bangladesh in 1983.
Kate has recently been spotted wearing the pearl drop earrings for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June, as well as the choker and earrings for the burial of Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in 2021. (Kate has frequently taken the Queen’s favourite set of earrings from her jewellery box.)
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George and Charlotte are a few years younger than William was in 1997, when he was 15 and went to his mother Princess Diana’s burial. Prince Louis, age 4, was probably thought too young to attend the funeral with the rest of the family on Monday.
Following the state funeral, the royal family will go to Wellington Arch with Queen Elizabeth’s casket before being transported to Windsor. They will assemble for a committal service following another procession to St. George’s Chapel inside Windsor Castle.