39 Photos of the Royals Wearing Monochrome Outfits
There may be no style statement more iconically royal than the monochrome look. Queen Elizabeth has famously been donning all-one-color outfits for decades, and she's clearly served as style inspiration for the generations of royals that have followed. For bold hues to muted neutrals, here's how the royal family does monochrome.
Queen Elizabeth looked particularly patriotic in cobalt blue when she visited the Sainsbury Laboratory for Plant Sciences in the University of Cambridge Botanic Garden with Prince Philip on April 27, 2011.
Ever a fan of the coat dress, Kate sported this cerise version with a matching hat for the Commonwealth Day service on March 11, 2019 in London.
For Princess Eugenie's wedding, her mother, Sarah, Duchess of York, and sister, Princess Beatrice, both went the monochrome route in lush jewel-toned dresses and hats.
While visiting Jamaica in 1962, Princess Margaret donned this sunny yellow combo.
A lover of neutrals, Meghan Markle chose this chic, minimalist taupe ensemble for a visit to the Mayhew Animal Welfare Charity.
Princess Diana look radiant in pink and polka-dots (one of her signature patterns) in Perth, Australia.
What better color to don for a trip to the South Pacific than blue, just as the Queen did in 1982.
The royals might be remember for their colorful outfits, but Sophie, Countess of Wessex, looked stunning in white monochrome at the Royal Ascot in 2015.
Royals are never too young for monochrome—just take this all-blue look on Princess Charlotte in Victoria, Canada in 2016 as proof.
What's better than one royal in monochrome? Three, of course! In this case, Princess Margaret, Princess Anne, and the Queen Mother at the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969.
Kate chose a celebratory shade of fuchsia for Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank.
The Queen is a monochrome maven from way back, as seen in this mint green look she put together in 1973.
A coordinating couple! Meghan Markle paired a fiery cape dress, shoes, and handbag to perfectly complement Prince Harry's uniform.
Matching in monochrome: Queen Elizabeth and her daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall both chose to go monochrome (blue in the Queen's case, white for Camilla) to meet with Donald Trump at the Buckingham Palace garden in 2019.
Maybe monochrome runs in the family—both Princess Diana and her sister Sarah McCorquodale looked put together in blue and purple sets in 1992.
Princess Anne looks positively peachy in a sherbet orange look.
Always on brief, Kate went all-green for a trip to Dublin in 2020.
Taking monochrome to the next level, Princess Margaret not only paired her dress and hat, but also her lipstick and jewelry in bold shades of pink.
Queen Elizabeth looked positively citrusy in lime green at the 2018 Royal Ascot.
Purple is Princess Beatrice's go-to wedding guest color. Not only did she wear it to her sister Princess Eugenie's wedding, she also chose it for the wedding of Sam Waley-Cohen and Annabel Ballin in 2011.
You have to love a mother-daughter monochrome moment. Princess and and Queen Elizabeth looked less than mellow in yellow with those skeptical faces at the Derby in Epsom in 1988.
For Meghan Markle's first Trooping the Colour after joining the royal family, she and sister-in-law Kate Middleton both chose monochrome looks: Meghan in blush, Kate in sky blue.
Queen Elizabeth selected a dreamy peach ensemble to mark the 175th anniversary of the first train journey by a British monarch in 2017, traveling the same railways her ancestor, Queen Victoria, first created.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle looked true blue on the Buckingham Palace balcony, with Meghan's navy monochrome look pairing nicely with Harry's uniform.
Queen Elizabeth clearly took after her mother, as both chose pale blue monochrome outfits on the Queen Mother's 83rd birthday.
Queen Elizabeth skipped the standard red and green and went for a bold orange for Christmas church service in 2017.
Sophie, Countess of Wessex, paired a belted teal one piece with a matching hat for the 2019 Royal Ascot.
Queen Elizabeth looked sunny in yellow for a garden party at Buckingham Palace—even her umbrella matched her outfit.
Mommy-and-me monochrome has never looked cuter than with Princess Charlotte and Kate Middleton in pink for 2017's Trooping the Colour.
A springy robin's egg blue was a perfect choice for the Queen on Easter Day 2017.
Meghan Markle made us all green with envy over her gorgeous caped dress at the Commonwealth Day Service.
To bid a teary farewell to the royal family's beloved yacht, the Britannia, the Queen chose a bold red outfit.
Princess Anne was a perfect example of '60s style in yellow at the Bath and West Agricultural Show in 1969.
A matching pink skirt suit and hat on Princess Diana paid a subtle homage to another famously stylish woman—Jackie Kennedy.
This duck egg blue outfit got an extra boost from floral accents at a parade in Berlin in 1973.
Queen Elizabeth added some zing to her visit to Spain in 1988 with this bold fuchsia number.
For a celebration at Buckingham Palace, Meghan decked herself out in a monochrome set of pale neutrals.
On a 1975 trip to Mexico, the Queen dressed up in all-over yellow.
Princess Anne attended a garden party at The Palace Of Holyroodhouse in 2019 in different tones of the same shade of chic teal.
39 Photos of the Royals Wearing Monochrome Outfits
There may be no style statement more iconically royal than the monochrome look. Queen Elizabeth has famously been donning all-one-color outfits for decades, and she's clearly served as style inspiration for the generations of royals that have followed. For bold hues to muted neutrals, here's how the royal family does monochrome.
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