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# Royally Played, Wills and Kate (in Jenny Packham) at the Chinese State Dinner
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/prince-william-kate-chinese-state-dinner/
- Published: 2015-10-20T22:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2015-10-22T06:15:23.000Z
- Author: Jessica  
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:44

## Wills and Kate

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/10/gettyimages-4934505601.jpg)

SURE, William looks like he's wearing normal white tie here but WHO KNOWS what lurks inside that car's backseat? Booty shorts? MAYBE.

## Kate and Chinese President Xi Jinping

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/10/GettyImages-4934558561.jpg)

I dig this dress, although I am generally sort of doubtful about the cap sleeve as a concept. But it's very princess-y and pretty and totally appropriate and also THANK YOU FOR THOSE BRACELETS. This whole thing, for me, is about the jewels, and the booze, and the combo of wine and diamonds, which shall be the name of my biography. I HOPE. (Also, that is one hell of a candelabra. You couldn't even lift it if you wanted to use it as a murder weapon. What is even the point?)

## Ye Olde Buck House Ballroom

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2015/10/GettyImages-493455840.jpg)

You can see Kate up there at the head table in the #2 Important Royal Lady Seat; I assume Wills is lurking behind a giant floral arrangement somewhere. [Twas ever thus](https://www.gofugyourself.com/well-played-will-and-kate-the-asian-tour-part-i-09-2012/the-duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-diamond-jubilee-tour-day-1-2?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io).

[Royally Played, Wills and Kate (in Jenny Packham) at the Chinese State DinnerFirst things first! Kate is wearing the Lotus Flower Tiara -- and, as ever, Order of Splendor has a good primer on it. The Lotus flower is meaningful in Chinese culture, so that makes very good sense as a choice, and it's probably the only tiara that Kate is allowed to borrow that actually does have some meaning that resonates for the guests of honor. (I wish there were a blog written by the people who help Kate decide what to wear and why -- ditto Michelle Obama, actually -- because there has to be a lot of discussion about symbolism and yada and I am HERE FOR THAT.) Her bracelets, which you will see within -- TWO! THANK YOU, KATE! --are my jeweled soulmates. One is a loaner from the Queen; it was a wedding gift from Phil, and it's all Romanov diamonds (that intel is from our friends at The Court Jeweller). William is, obviously, wearing a Speedo with his usual fur bolero and a crown of discarded candy wrappers. BORING. Since so far we don't have a proper high-res shot of the entire dress, and probably won't get one, here it is, thanks to Twitter: #Kate in bespoke @jennypackham and wearing the Queen's Lotus Flower Tiara #ChinaStateVisit pic.twitter.com/fYZrdib0SP — Emily Nash (@emynash) October 20, 2015 It seems very floaty and glam in motion, which I like. Additionally, you guys know I am obsessed with the menus for these things. Here it is: The menu for tonight's State Banquet, which includes Venison from Balmoral and West Coast Turbot #ChinaStateVisit pic.twitter.com/iTxBo18AAR — BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) October 20, 2015 \[Photos: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire, for Getty\]![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2015/10/gettyimages-4934505601.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/prince-william-kate-chinese-state-dinner-10-2015/)