Duchess Kate sans flesh-colored hose! Somewhere, the executives at Leggs are starting to worry.
More about the royal’s fashion-forward outing—and Pippa’s rumored move to New York City—in our Royal Watch column.
Long ago, your Royal Watchers at VF.com always imagined that Kate would have the plummy, lusciously deep-ish inflection of a Rosamund Pike. Or maybe the syllable-savoring, tape-recorder-slowed-down languor of a Carey Mulligan.
What did you think she’d sound like?
Our grappling with the clipped, sunny tones of Kate’s speaking voice, here.
BUNCH OF FLOWERS!!! Kate Middleton is presented with a Valentine’s Day gift by 8-year-old Jaqson Johnston-Lynch in Liverpool, England on Tuesday. (Photo: Tim Hale / AP via MSNBC.com)
Watch your back, Wills! (Ok seriously this is adorable.)
(Source: MSN)
The Middleton sisters—whether wearing their country-mouse outfits (Kate, at left) or city-mouse outfits (Pips, at right)—are already expert huntresses of high-street frocks, knee-high boots, and handsome beaux. This Christmas vacation, however, they will unite forces as huntresses of single aim:
Shooting pheasants with the Queen.
(Doesn’t this sound like some sort of Lifetime original movie, made possible by good folks at Cabela’s? But it’s real, America. It. Is. Real.)
Photograph from Rex USA.
Better check to see if you’re on it this year.
Photograph by Mark Large/Getty Images.
Now that’s an ad for the Dukan Diet.
Photograph by Christopher Wahl for Vanity Fair.
![Kate Middleton, for the win.
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And speaking of loveliness:
Photographer Christopher Wahl is on the royal trail for VF.com. We’re loving the act of unveiling his exclusive pictures. Swoon.
Princess Catherine in Canada. Photograph by Christopher Wahl.
July 2011.
Photograph by Mario Testino.
