Angela Kelly Mottled Silk Flower Print Dress and Honeycomb Coat

Oh, I just love the shades of blue and lilac in this Angela Kelly outfit! The coat is in a pale ice blue honeycomb fabric, matched to a mottled silk dress with a flower print on a cream background. The hat is pale ice blue straw with a spray of pastel-coloured feathers to one side. On the whole, it's a look that just screams summer, and in fact its first appearance came at a Buckingham Palace garden party on 19 July 2010, accessorised with the Cullinan V brooch:

 

On 24 November 2010, the Queen selected it to conduct an investiture at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, during a tour of the Gulf States, paired with the Flame Lily brooch:

 

The Queen with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and Prime Minster of the UAE:

 

The outfit, both with and without coat, was worn again on 24 May 2011, when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh received President and Mrs Obama at Buckingham Palace. The Cullinan V brooch was used again:

 

 

The look made another garden party appearance at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 1 July 2014, when the honeycomb coat was added against the chilly weather, jazzed up with the Boucheron aquamarine and diamond clips: