Kate Middleton Dazzles in Alexander McQueen Dress, Conjures Up Image of Princess Diana

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry put on their academic accoutrements for Monday's Sun Military Awards at London's Imperial War Museum. Kate Middleton, 29, revisited her marriage dress artist for the occasion, cutting a beauteous atramentous clover clothes by Alexander McQueen as they accustomed 11 associates of the United Kingdom's armed armament for their boldness during wartime.
The dress featured a fishtail hemline and annoyed sweetheart neckline absolute for a approaching princess, while the abbreviate contour seems to accept accepted already and for all the Middleton is not pregnant. Also noteworthy is the strapless architecture which showed off Middleton's shoulders-typically covered up with added bourgeois sleeves.

If you feel the architecture looks familiar, you are not alone. The Duchess's clothes is cartoon comparisons to a actual agnate glassy appearance Princess Diana wore thirty years ago at her aboriginal accessible assurance with Prince Charles in 1981. According to Grazia, Diana was 19 if she wore the atramentous strapless architecture by Elizabeth and David Emanuel, who after advised her marriage dress.

Elizabeth Emanuel has said of Princess Diana's dress, "The transformation was incredible. She accustomed searching like the nursery academy abecedary she was, but now she looked like a cine star." It's safe to say Diana's atramentous clothes sparked a allure with her sartorial choices not clashing our accepted attraction with Middleton's. Last year, Diana's dress awash at bargain for over $300,000 to a appearance building in Chile.

The Duchess of Cambridge accessorized her dress with a set of amazing jewels. According to ELLE UK, St. James's Palace says the design and bittersweet star-burst chaplet and analogous armlet and earrings were marriage ability from a ancestors friend. Atramentous Prada heels, a atramentous clutch, and the azure and design assurance ring that already accord to Princess Diana completed the blithe anniversary ensemble. Only time will acquaint if Middleton's dress will authority up adjoin the original.