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This year’s Remembrance Day events have been spread out over the course of a few weeks, likely to mark the significance of this year’s anniversary. 2015 marks the 100-anniversary of the start of World War I, plus it is the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Everyone in the UK has been and will continue to pay tribute to the fallen and their sacrifices, and almost everyone will be wearing those red poppies too.

On Saturday evening, several members of the royal family attended the British Legion Festival of Remembrance at Albert Hall. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge made their first public appearances in more than a week. They joined the Queen, Prince Philip, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, the Countess of Wessex and more. William was seated in a place of honor beside the Queen, and Kate was on his other side, with Prince Andrew on her other side. While Prince Charles seems eager to avoid being seen with Andrew, it looks like the Cambridges aren’t so squeamish about Randy Andy’s issues.

For the event, Kate wore her second Dolce & Gabbana dress in a month. Her first was that lovely deep purple lace dress she wore to a day-time event with the president of China. I thought that purple Dolce & Gabbana dress would have been fine for an evening event, but it looked out-of-place for that particular venue, like she was going to a cocktail party and everyone else was heading to a business meeting. But this D&G is fine. It’s appropriate, it’s a good look for a more somber evening event and I don’t even mind that she’s obsessed with wearing doilies. If she really wanted to look even more conservative, it would have been nice to see her hair pulled back into a neat chignon. But now I’m just nitpicking. The D&G dress costs $2897, which seems REALLY excessive for such a simple dress (which can be found anywhere for probably $200-300). You can see more photos from the event here.

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