Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, wore a familiar pale blue Emilia Wickstead coat dress to a special military parade at London’s Hyde Park on Sunday. The Kalonice Wrap Coat Dress, a long-sleeved, belted design with a lapel collar by the New Zealand-born designer, has become something of a staple in Sophie’s wardrobe.
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Sophie at the parade on Sunday.
She previously wore it at the Sovereign’s Parade in 2025 at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where she served as Reviewing Officer on behalf of King Charles, pairing it with matching blue pointed-toe heels and a netted fascinator with feathers. The Duchess also wore it for the royal family’s traditional Christmas morning walk at Sandringham in December 2024, though that time with a darker blue pillbox hat and knee-high brown boots.
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The Duchess of Edinburgh at the Sovereign’s Parade in April 2025.
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The Duchess on Christmas Day in 2024.
For Sunday’s appearance, Sophie exchanged the coordinating blue accessories for a wide-brimmed tan fedora by Jane Taylor Millinery, Jimmy Choo pointed-toe pumps, and a snakeskin clutch, giving the familiar dress a notably different feel.
Serving in her role as the Royal Colonel of the Queen’s Own Yeomanry, which she has since 2023, the Duchess was observing the 102nd Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association Parade at the Cavalry Memorial at Hyde Park in London. The ceremony honored cavalry personnel from across the UK and Commonwealth who lost their lives during World War I and in conflicts since.
The parade brings together serving and former soldiers from all Regiments of the Regular Cavalry and Yeomanry, dressed in traditional “walking out” attire, which consists of bowler hats, suits, regimental ties, and furled umbrellas. They marched past the Cavalry Memorial, a sculpture cast from metal salvaged from enemy guns captured by the cavalry during the First World War, depicting St. George on horseback standing over a slain dragon.
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