Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
You know I cannot resist a photo that involves flags. Flags are very photogenic. Also, from here, this suit is totally reasonable and very...Jackie Kennedy, which is always a safe sartorial reference if you're in public service. I particularly like the vent on the cuff.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
"Hey, hi, hello, no, Maxima is off giving the keynote speech at a meeting of giant necklace enthusiasts. She left you a note though. Come on inside!"
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
This photo makes it look as if someone steamed Kate's skirt between her arrival and this picture, but I think the lighting actually just blew it out to the point where you can't see the wrinkles? Regardless: MOVE OVER EVERYONE, I want to see all the stuff in this room. (They are at Villa Eikenhorst, which is -- if I understand it correctly -- basically Max and Wax's Anmer Hall.)
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
Anyhoodle, once she and Willem-Alexander got their chitty chat out of the way, Kate was off to meet people and talk to artistic children and look at paintings, as one does if one is Kate. I like the suit. It just is an unforgiving fabric. Live and learn.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
Here, Kate "visits the Art Workshop where children were having a painting lesson in the Mauritshuis Gallery," which is very Bex Porter of her. I enjoy how much it looks like this kid is telling her some EXTREMELY juicy gossip.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
Behold, the Mauritshuis Gallery! As ever when I write about these trips, I want to go to there. Fun fact: Kate is visiting because the exhibit they're opening even as I type features twenty-two paintings that QE2 lent to them, including Vermeer's The Music Lesson, which usually hangs in Buckingham Palace (and which, actually, plays a small part in The Royal We). This room is GORGEOUS.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
I appreciate the symbolism of wearing a pearl earring when you know you're going to get to see Girl with a Pearl Earring. (Kate has an art history degree, so she probably extra-enjoys getting to see this.)
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
Next, Kate popped by a robotics workshop and it looks FUN.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
I do not know what's even happening here, but I feel comfortable saying that this girl is all of us.
Kate Wears Catherine Walker to The Netherlands
"I think I'll wear this home. What do you think?"