Kate Middleton’s ‘regal and sad’ Cenotaph appearance was a ‘re-run’ of her most…

The Princess of Wales, Kate, looked particularly Royal as she honored the nation’s war-fallen, according to a body language expert.

The 42 year old princess made one of her most touching appearances since her cancer diagnosis at yesterday’s Remembrance Sunday. She observed the emotional ceremony at the Cenotaph from the traditional balcony. With Queen Camilla absent due to a chest infection, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, stood alongside Kate.

Dressed in all black with three red poppies rumored to honor her great-grandmother’s three brothers who died in World War I, Kate was the picture of elegance. Her diamond and pearl drop earrings were a legacy from the late Queen, and she also wore her silver Queen’s Dragoon Guards brooch beneath her poppies, acknowledging her role as the regiment’s Colonel-in-Chief.

Body language expert Judi James noted that Kate’s style and expressions echoed a significant previous Royal event when she appeared “so much like a future queen”. Judi told Mail Online: “Even her fascinator and the way she wore her hair swept up looked like a re-run of one of her most iconic ‘regal’ moments when she was photographed in the car, in her Covid face mask, at Philip’s funeral, looking fiercely elegant and regal and so much like a future queen.”

In April 2021, Kate made a poignant appearance at Prince Philip’s funeral, clad in a long-sleeved black dress paired with a black hat fascinator featuring netting and pearl accents. Amid the global pandemic, she donned a black protective face mask.

Her image, captured while traveling in the car, was hailed as ‘historic’ and ‘iconic’ by Royal commentators. Speaking of Kate’s presence at the Cenotaph, Judi remarked: “Her facial expression became sombre once we heard the chimes of Big Ben and there was a more contained version of her clearly emotional signalling that we saw at the concert the evening before. Then she appeared tearful, but here her sadness registered with a fiercely regal look of stoic reflection.

Marking her first back-to-back public duties this year, Kate attended the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening.
This high-profile engagement followed the Prince of Wales’s heartfelt admission that 2024 had been incredibly tough, calling it “probably been the hardest year in my life”, especially with both Kate and the King facing cancer diagnoses.

In a chat with the Mirror, Judi revealed: “Sophie was clearly in the role of temporary stand-in for William. She chatted to Kate on the balcony as the two women stood side-by-side and despite Kate’s impeccable appearance of confidence as she stood in the spot that used to belong to the late Queen, Sophie appeared to be keeping a watchful eye over her as Anne has clearly been keeping over brother Charles.”

“It was the small touch or even pat on the back as Kate walked ahead inside the building that seemed to not only offer a form of maternal affection, caring and reassurance or even congratulation to her niece-in-law, but it also looked like the visible proof to William that Kate is in very safe and caring Royal hands when he is not there by her side.”