Commonwealth Day

Anne wore it to the Royal Ascot in 1980 and again in 1990.

It appeared at the Epsom Derby in 1985, the Henley Royal Regatta in 1986, Buckingham Palace Garden parties in 2015 and 2016 and the Commonwealth Day Service in 2018.

Some pieces aren't quite so ancient but have quickly joined the rotation.

A vivid turquoise coat first appeared on Easter Sunday in 2018.

On several occasions, she paired it with the same printed blouse.

A lilac wool coat dates back to 1982, when Anne wore it during a visit by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

It subsequently appeared for Commonwealth Day and several Christmas appearances.

Then there's a cream skirt suit with orange piping.

songs of education number two geography form one seven nine five five three zero one subsection z

the earth is a place on which england is found and you'll find it however you twirl the globe around for the spots are all red and the rest is all grey and that is the meaning of empire day gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain unattached to its base is the district of spain and the island of malta is marked further on where some natives were known as the knights of st john then cyprus and east to the suez canal that was conquered by dizzy and rothschild his pal with the sword of the lord in the old english way and that is the meaning of empire day our principal imports come far as cape horn for necessities cocoa for luxuries corn thus brahmans are born for the rice-field and thus the gods made the greeks to grow currants for us tobacco and petrol and jazzing and jews the jazzing will pass but the jews they will stay and that is the meaning of empire day our principal exports all labelled and packed at the ends of the earth are delivered intact our soap or our salmon can travel in tins between the two poles and as like as two pins so that the lancashire merchants wherever they like can water the beer of a man in klondike or poison the meat of a man in bombay and that is the meaning of empire day The day of St. George is a musty affair, which Russians and Greeks are permitted to share.

The day of Trafalgar is Spanish in name, and the Spaniards refuse to pronounce it the same.

But the day of the Empire from Canada came, with Morden and Borden and Beaverbrook's fame, and saintly seraphical souls such as they, and that is the meaning of Empire Day.

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It coincides with the Commonwealth Games.

It's Commonwealth Day.

That's right.

Commonwealth Day.

And every head of every Commonwealth nation is sitting in front of me.

I'm on a stage in that forecourt at Buckingham Palace.

There's a lot of talk, I've noticed, a lot of chatter about what will William do? And it's very much, you know, will William now have to, you know, open his arms to Harry and Meghan in some kind of way? And I just want to point out that he has done many times.

I need to go on the record and just say, before the Commonwealth Day ceremony in 2020, when the Sussexes, it was their final engagement, Sussexes were taken out of royal possession And it was embarrassing for them because they were no longer working royals.

So William took him and Catherine out of the royal procession.

He also decided not to wear his military suit, sorry, his army outfit at Prince Philip's funeral because that would have embarrassed Harry.