Kate is looking great

Published Apr 15, 2016

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What's all the fuss about Will and Kate in India this week?

For starters the royal couple are retracing the steps taken by Princess Diana on her iconic visit in February 1992.

Diana was famously photographed sitting alone outside the Taj Mahal and in Hyderabad, touched hearts around the world, when she met and shook hands with the Untouchables, considered the lowest, most ostracised caste in India.

Of course she also beguiled a global audience with what she wore; placing ample pressure on her daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge.

The Duchess, considered as demure as the iconic royal that India is said to have fallen in love with, did not fail to impress this week.

Aside from a gusty moment in a crepe Emilia Wickstead dress she has wowed the media in reds, blues and greens from all ends of the pricing spectrum.

At Kaziranga National Park’s Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation she fed a baby elephant in a Topshop dress that is no doubt sold out.

'The Kate Middleton Effect', a term coined soon after her repeated appearance in maternity label Seraphine reportedly increased turnover by 50 percent is, according to Newsweek, worth £1 billion to the UK fashion industry.

During the trip she wowed in Indian and British designs, playing cricket in an Anita Dongre dress and looking elegant in sapphire blue Jenny Packham.

The trip so far has definitely been a vote of confidence for Temperley London, whose seafoam green dress and another embroidered two piece, albeit a crop top and skirt, will go down in fashion history. Another UK brand the royal packed for the trip is Glamorous.

Safe bets include Vera Wang and Alexander McQueen.

The royals are spending a week in India and Bhutan and, according to Associated Press, on Friday plan to hike to a Bhutan Buddhist monastery perched at an altitude of 3 000m, though there will be ponies on standby to help carry them should they tire on the trek.

They have already visited Mumbai, New Delhi and the wildlife reserve in Assam, to raise awareness of the plight of endangered rhinos and other animals threatened by poaching and habitat loss.

Later on Friday they will head back to India to visit the Taj Mahal.

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