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No member of the British royal family has made the repeat outfit quite the signature move as deftly as Princess Anne has. The Princess Royal has not just championed sustainable fashion, but personified it through her actions and wardrobe choices. For Easter Sunday services in Windsor this year, Princess Anne stepped out in at a familiar turquoise coat and matching fedora that she has worn several times over the years.
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Princess Anne walks with her husband, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, to St. George’s Chapel.
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Anne seen leaving the chapel.
Anne also wore this same outfit to celebrate Easter at Windsor in 2018, followed by several other occasions in recent years, including for the Christmas walk at Sandringham that year, the 2019 Cheltenham Festival, and at the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in 2021. In February 2023, she also wore it to an event honoring the people of Southampton for their tree-planting efforts.
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The Princess Royal in the same coat for Easter in 2018.
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Anne presents a bottle to winning Irish jockey Paul Townend on the final day of the Cheltenham races in 2019.
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Princess Anne, in the same coat, in Southhampton in 2023.
Always one of the hardest working royals, the Princess has had a busy week leading up to Easter. She spent Maundy Thursday up in Scotland, where she opened the NHS Tayside Charitable Trust’s new headquarters in the city of Dundee. Earlier in the week, The King’s Royal Hussars at Salisbury Plain Training Area to meet troops and watch the regiment’s training exercises in action. The day before, she spoke at the University of Edinburgh, where she met with leaders involved in the Edinburgh Ocean Leaders initiative, a program focused on marine conservation and climate resilience. Princess Anne was elected a chancellor of the University of Edinburgh in 2011, succeeding her father, Prince Philip, who stepped down in 2010.
Earlier in the week, the Princess Royal also visited the King’s Royal Hussars, a regiment in the British Army, at Salisbury Plain Training Area in southwest England. She spoke to soldiers about their training program while watching exercises that involved “the coordination of tanks, infantry, and drones.” Princess Anne has been the regiment’s Colonel-in-Chief since the King’s Royal Hussars were established in 1969.
Rachel King (she/her) is a news writer at Town & Country. Before joining T&C, she spent nearly a decade as an editor at Fortune. Her work covering travel and lifestyle has appeared in Forbes, Observer, Robb Report, Cruise Critic, and Cool Hunting, among others. Originally from San Francisco, she lives in New York with her wife, their daughter, and a precocious labradoodle. Follow her on Instagram at @rk.passport.