While other royals have also worn
Although there's no 'royal rule' against wearing sandals (when Meghan Markle was a senior royal, she often wore them), Kate has only ever been seen wearing heeled sandals a few times, and has never been photographed in flat sandals. All that glitters.
The crown jewels
"The old rule is that hats are never worn indoors after 6pm, because that is when the ladies changed into evening dress, and tiaras and the family jewels would come out. "Flashy diamonds and tiaras are not worn during the day, and only married ladies wear tiaras."
An unwritten rule saying royals must act professionally could be why they rarely engage in PDA. During rare occasions, the pair's been seen holding hands or touching each other's backs.
It has recently been reported by My London that she wear sticky pads on the bottom so her feet so that she remains firmly in her shoes at all times. It came after The Sun reported that the 40-year-old was wearing John Lewis tights with built-in sticky pads to stop slipping and sliding.
Kate Middleton often stands in heels for hours at a time while making public appearances. So to ensure comfort, etiquette expert Myka Meier says the Princess of Wales uses two tricks. Kate is said to wear John Lewis non-slip tights and Alice Bow insoles to "cushion" her feet.
The Princess of Wales is also said to use leather insoles
According to Alice Bow's website, the slip-in leather soles are designed to cushion your feet so you can comfortably wear any type of shoe, including high heels, for hours.
The queen sets the precedent.
There's no written rule that says that William and Kate can't kiss or hold hands in public, but as we know, the royal family is taught to follow the queen's lead.
One of the worst things a woman in the royal family can do—as far as etiquette rules go—is sit with her legs crossed at the knee. Legs and knees must be kept together, although crossing at the ankle is fine.
As an old tradition dictates, royal couples never share the same bed or bedroom, allowing them to move freely while asleep.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was known to sport the brightest of colours when she attended public events, however there is one colour the monarch never wore. Royal biographer Robert Hardman reportedly said: “My favourite remark she ever said was: 'I can never wear beige because nobody will know who I am. '”
Royal etiquette expert Myka Meier told Fabulous, "Underwear and bras are also considered private intimate wear, and for royals to put intimate apparel on display would simply not be done."
Royal women like Meghan and Kate often keep things casual at official events, wearing affordable brands and easy-to-wear styles, and that includes blue jeans. Here, 20 times royals have worn denim, from Prince Philip and Princess Alexandra in the 1950s to Meghan and Kate today. The Queen isn't one to wear denim.
Royal Moms Don't Have Baby Showers
Royal babies go through diapers just as fast as regular babies, after all.
Members of the royal family are expected to dress modestly and never overtly casual. (Serious question: Can you imagine a life without sweatpants?) That doesn't mean that they can't have some fun, though.
Royal expert Victoria Arbiter previously told Insider that you “never see a royal without their nude stockings" and added that the tights are “really the only hard, steadfast rule in terms of what the Queen requires”.
The monarch isn't a fan of a deep bath either, she is said to bathe in “no more than seven inches of water”, according to royal author Brian Hoey for the Daily Mail. Seven inches is equivalent to 17.8 centimetres.
Perhaps the most oft-transgressed maxim is touching a member of the royal family in a manner that goes beyond a formal handshake—a guideline that likely dates back to the Middle Ages, when, as the British historian Kate Williams has noted, “monarchs were divinely appointed to rule by God, so they were kind of seen as ...
Princess Eugenie is one of the only royals with visible tattoos. She showed off her small tattoo, a delicately inked circle behind her left year, at the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in 2022. However, it is unclear when she first got the piece of body art.
It is said that the apartment has the option for Kate and William to have separate sleeping spaces, but they refuse to utilise them as so, instead sharing a bedroom like regular married couples.
All royals are expected to bow or curtsy to the sovereign and his wife, King Charles and Queen Camilla. Since he ascended to the throne, Prince William and Princess Kate have been seen formally greeting the monarch with a bow and curtsy on multiple occasions.
Kate Middleton Reveals Rule She's Not Allowed To Break At Appearances. During a recent outing at the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show in London, Kate Middleton revealed an interesting rule that she's not allowed to break during public appearances: she can't sign autographs.
Kate's even got a favorite pair of sweatpants! It's not all high heels and tiaras, people: Your favorite royals do occasionally keep things casual in sneakers and a plain old baseball hat, just like the rest of us.
Background. The pose traces back to classical times – Aeschines, founder of a rhetoric school, suggested that speaking with an arm outside one's chiton was bad manners. The pose was used in 18th-century British portraiture as a sign that the sitter was from the upper class.
Back in the 1960s, the monarch re-wore her custom-made gowns at high-profile events, including the Norman Hartnell dress that Princess Beatrice borrowed for her wedding day in 2020. The Queen's personal dresser, Angela Kelly, previously explained how the royal's repeat-wears were always carefully considered.