The royal family holds quite a bit of fashion archives. The Cambridges and Sussexes usually borrow jewelry and items of clothing previously worn by family members, and at the Festival of Colors on June 2, it was Prince Louis who looked to the past for inspiration. In honor of his first carriage procession in the annual military parade, this year kicking off Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the four-year-old wore a sailor suit similar to the one that His father, Prince William, wore it at Trooping the Color in 1985, when he was just two years old.
In these sweet photos from the event, Louis, youngest child of William and Kate Middleton, waved to her siblings as the carriage made its way from Buckingham Palace to the Guards Parade and back. The 1985 parade, which saw William in the same sailor suit, was an important parade for the family, as it was Prince Harry’s first. Interestingly, for Trooping the Color’s first appearance in 2019, Louis wore a blue and white outfit. the same one that Prince Harry wore to the 1986 parade.
For her siblings, Princess Charlotte wore a periwinkle Patachou dress, and Prince George wore a navy suit. William, meanwhile, was in his red army uniform, and Middleton wore a white Alexander McQueen coat from her wardrobe, which she teamed with a navy blue Philip Treacy hat. Diana and sapphire earrings. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle also to London for the occasion: Harry wore a navy suit, and Markle wore a navy blue off the shoulder dress and a wide-brimmed hat by Stephen Jones Millinery.
