Kate Middleton has paid homage to her late mother-in-law, Princess Diana, with her style choices throughout the years.
Here, WWD takes a look back at the times Catherine, Princess of Wales has channeled Princess Diana through her sartorial and jewelry choices.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: Getty Images For the Festival of Remembrance, her first major public event post-chemotherapy, Kate Middleton wore one of Princess Diana’s go-to designers in a Catherine Walker jacket. She also wore a Monica Vinader pearl necklace, along with Princess Diana’s Collingwood pearl drop earrings and her diamond and sapphire engagement ring.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP The Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Diana’s sapphire engagement ring.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana wears a white dress with gold embellishments in 1986 and Kate Middleton wearing a similar Alexander McQueen dress during a visit to Kuala Lumpur in 2012.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana and Prince Charles after the birth of Prince William in 1982 and Kate Middleton and Prince William after the birth of Prince George in 2013. Princess Diana wears a knee-length green polka dot dress and Middleton wears a Jenny Packham blue polka dot dress.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana wearing a red and black houndstooth set at the christening of Princess Eugenie in 1990 and Kate Middleton in a red houndstooth jacket during a tour of Sweden in 2018.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana in a red plaid suit in 1991 and Kate Middleton in a black sweater and red plaid skirt during a Christmas party in 2018.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana in a red dress after the birth of Prince Harry in 1984 and Kate Middleton in a red Jenny Packham dress after the birth of Prince Louis in 2018.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP The Lover’s Knot Tiara was a favorite of Princess Diana and has since become a favorite of Kate Middleton. Here, the princess wears the tiara during a visit to Hong Kong in 1989 and Middleton wears it during a diplomatic reception in 2018.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana wears a black-and-white polka dot dress at the royal ascot in 1986 and Kate Middleton wears a similar Jenny Packham dress at Wimbledon in 2018.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana wears a sequined, off-the-shoulder white dress at a movie premiere in 1983 and Kate Middleton wears a white off-the-shoulder Alexander McQueen dress at the BAFTAs in 2019.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana weara a light blue tunic over pants during a visit to Pakistan in 1996 and Kate Middleton wears a blue Catherine Walker-designed shalwar kameez during her visit to Pakistan in 2019.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana wears a light turquoise coat dress during a visit to the Badshahi mosque in Lahore in 1991. Middleton wears a turquoise shalwar kameez designed by Maheen Khan to visit the mosque in 2019.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Princess Diana in a floral blue kurta in Pakistan in 1997 and Kate Middleton in a Maheen Khan-designed Kurta during her visit to the country in 2019.
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14 Times Kate Middleton Channeled Princess Diana
Image Credit: AP Kate Middleton wears a green tunic designed by Catherine Walker during her royal tour of Pakistan in 2019 and Princess Diana wears a similar green coat in 1992 during a visit to France.