Since marrying into the British royal family in 2011 and becoming a royal herself, Princess Kate has worn a tiara only a handful of occasions.
Though the British royal family owns a variety of shimmering, bejeweled tiaras, royals themselves hardly remove them from the rack—unless it’s for a prestigious engagement. One such opportunity may soon be occurring for Princess Kate. Buckingham Palace announced today that King Charles III will be hosting the president of the Republic of Korea later this autumn.
“The President of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Yoon Suk Yeol, accompanied by Mrs Kim Keon Hee, has accepted an invitation from His Majesty The King to pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom in November,” the palace’s statement read. “The King and Queen will host the State Visit at Buckingham Palace.”
Traditionally, the British monarch throws a state banquet in honor of a visiting foreign leader. As the royal family’s website reads, “Usually on the evening of the arrival day, the visitors will be hosted at a State Banquet, which is a very grand formal occasion held in the Buckingham Palace Ballroom. Around 150 guests are usually invited on the basis of their cultural, diplomatic or economic links to the country being hosted.”
State banquets are one of the rare occasions when female members of the royal family wear tiaras. The last time Princess Kate wore a tiara was to attend the King Charles’s first state banquet as monarch, in November 2022, at which he honored South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. For the dinner, Kate paired the Lover’s Knot Tiara (which features diamonds and drop pearls) with an ivory gown by Jenny Packham.
Though state banquets typically enforce a white-tie dress code that mandates headgear for female royals, it is not insured that Kate will wear a tiara at the event for the Korean president.
Many royal fans hoped to see the princess wear a tiara for the king’s coronation this past May, because Queen Elizabeth II’s 1953 coronation featured many attending ladies in their own glimmering tiaras. Kate, however, traded a tiara for a silver laurel fabric arrangement, created by Jess Collett and Alexander McQueen, instead.
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