The Prince and Princess of Wales headed to Kent on Wednesday for the installation of the new Archbishop of Canterbury, with Catherine wearing pearls and a diamond cross.
Prince William and Princess Catherine were on hand at Canterbury Cathedral on Wednesday for the enthronement ceremony installing Dame Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
William and Kate met with Mullally at Lambeth Palace in February, a few days after her official election as the 106th Archbishop. She becomes the first woman to lead the church in its history. The first Archbishop of Canterbury, for context, arrived in England in 587 after being appointed by Pope Gregory the Great. After the Reformation, Thomas Cranmer became the first Protestant archbishop in the role.
For the enthronement ceremony, Catherine wore a Prince of Wales check coat from Suzannah with a coordinating straw boater made by Juliette Botterill.
She accessorized with a pair of Cassandra Goad earrings that have been in her personal collection for the better part of a decade.
These are the brand’s Cavolfiore Pearl Earrings, which feature pearls tipped with diamonds in a yellow gold setting. The name of the earrings gestures toward their inspiration source: “the clusters of young flower stalks of the cauliflower (cavolfiore)” in a Sicilian market.
Catherine made her public debut in the earrings during a very important occasion: the christening of her younger son, Prince Louis, at St. James’s Palace in the summer of 2018.
She also memorably wore them for her return to Trooping the Colour during her cancer treatment in June 2024.
With the earrings, Kate wore a diamond cross pendant on a thin silver chain.
She owns more than one diamond cross pendant, but the one she chose for the ceremony in Canterbury is the same one she wore in September 2022 after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Here’s one more look at Catherine’s jewels for the installation of the new Archbishop.
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