Although it’s been nearly 22 years since Princess Diana’s passing, her sons and daughters-in-law are doing everything they can to make sure her legacy lives on.
When the Duchess of Cambridge visited Bletchley Park on Tuesday, she turned heads in her £1,750 ($3,200 AUD) blue and white polka dot dress that was designed by Alessandra Rich.
However, what slipped under the radar was that the Duchess’ dress was a very close resemblance to a dress that was worn by Princess Diana in 1985. She wore the outfit for a photo shoot at Kensington Palace.
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Today The Duchess of Cambridge visited @bletchleyparkuk, the home of British codebreaking — which played a major role in secret intelligence gathering during the Second World War, producing secret information which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the war. The Duchess joined joined schoolchildren for an immersive workshop (using a real Enigma Machine used during the Second World War), which saw them take on the role of codebreakers in June 1944, intercepting and deciphering German communications in order to understand their order of battle and decide whether the Operation Fortitude deception plans have been successful. She also met Bletchley Veterans Elizabeth Diacon, Georgina Rose, Audrey Mather and Rena Stewart, who all worked to feed crucial information to Allied forces in the critical months, weeks and days leading up to D-Day during #WW2. The Duchess’s own Grandmother and Great Aunt, Valerie and Mary Glassborow, both worked at Bletchley during the War — and have become the latest additions to Bletchley’s Codebreakers’ Wall of Honour. Bletchley’s new exhibition ‘D-Day: Interception, Intelligence, Invasion’, based on newly declassified material, shows how the intelligence effort coordinated at the site helped specifically in the success of the D-Day landings at Normandy, part of their work to bring together the past and the present, with a nod to the future.
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Naturally, eagle eyed royal fans spotted the similarities and were thrilled with the tribute.
“Diana and Kate in almost the same dress,” one fan account mentioned.
“Diana and Kate in almost the same dress. Good taste goes never out of style!”
“I absolutely love all the ‘subtle’ tributes to Princess Diana,” another said. “She was beautiful, kind and loved by many.”
“Kate is all class… just like Diana!” one other added.
Diana wore the dress nearly 34 years ago, and the dress that is worn by the Duchess of Cambridge is clearly a favourite of hers as she wore the same style for Prince Charles’ official 70th birthday portraits last year.
