Duchess Sophie Is a Vision in Lemon Yellow at Trooping the Colour—and Reminds Us So Much of the Late Queen

Still, there was another royal who caught our eye immediately and felt like a bright spot in the London rain: Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh (and wife of Prince Edward).

She wore a lemon yellow dress from Beulah London and rode alongside her daughter, Lady Louise, in a carriage for the parade’s processional. Given the lovely pop of color, it was hard to miss her, TBQH.

But about that pop of color: Part of the reason it stood out was because it felt so reminiscent of a sartorial mantra dutifully practiced by the late Queen Elizabeth II. After all, it was her signature move to wear bright pastels to public and official royal events. The reasoning behind it? “I have to be seen to be believed,” royal biographer Sally Bedell Smith once attributed to the monarch. (An image is worth a thousand words, after all, and you don’t want someone as important as the queen getting lost in the crowd.)