Princess Kate wears the late Queen's £23,000 necklace to Prince Charles' Scottish coronation

[For Prince Charles, who attended the Scottish Coronation with Queen Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales, today was Coronation 2.0. At the Edinburgh event, William and Kate showed off the latest trend in PDA. Kate whispered in her husband's ear and even gave him a light pat on the back. (In Scotland, Kate is known as the Duchess of Rothesay and watched as Charles was presented with the Scottish crown at St. Giles Cathedral. Kate looked regal in Catherine Walker's royal blue coat dress (which she has worn many times in the past, including this Easter Sunday), but it was very different from her appearance at Charles' coronation on May 6. Kate's choice to wear it again was probably made with an awareness of the ongoing commitment to sustainability by the royal family, especially William's Earthshot Prize.

The last Scottish coronation was, of course, for the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. According to the Daily Mail, Kate paid tribute to the Queen, as she often does, by wearing a pearl choker necklace that was part of the late Queen Elizabeth's jewelry, in today's case, also lent to Princess Diana in the past. If the stunning four-row Japanese pearl choker with diamond clasp looks familiar, that's because Kate wore it to both the Queen's funeral in September 2022 and Prince Philip's in April 2021; in happier times, according to People, she wore it to the 2017 She also wore the necklace at the Queen and Philip's 70th wedding anniversary party. According to the Daily Express, the choker cost £23,000.

As she often does, Kate also honored her late mother-in-law through jewelry, attending the event wearing Princess Diana's pearl drop earrings and her pearl bracelet. She completed the look with a Philip Treacy hat.

The Scottish coronation continues a busy week for Kate - she was in Wimbledon yesterday watching a tennis tournament.