What do royal brides do when they're not playing wifey to the future King of England out in the sticks? Decamp to London to plunder its high street for bargainous loot. So, to Topshop, where the Duchess of Cambridge's "I'm so normal, me" campaign picked up pace: she was spotted making use of the joint bank account in a branch on High Street Kensington this week.
Mrs Wills Windsor is no stranger to shopping on the high street, of course - wit her pre-wedding dash in Warehouse , Banana Republic and Whistles on the King's Road in April - but this Topshop pitstop appears to be a first. She bought a forest-green pencil skirt (fashion bullseye! The length is on the money for autumn) with black polka dots (double score! Lichtenstein-ish dots prevail as the print du jour ) for £38, and a cobalt velvet-trim boucle jacket for £65 (standard K-Middy fodder, acts as a riposte to the out-there fash-ness of the skirt). A pair of £8 earrings were also in the frame, but she abandoned these at the last minute - given her riches, we can only surmise it was the design, rather than the cost.
Keeping to her no-fuss approach, she queued up for the changing rooms like the rest of us (kudos, but if we were in her position, we would have jumped the hellish scrum that is the Topshop queue).
All this was witnessed by a lass called Ashlin, who, as coincidence would have it, is Kate's number one fan-girl: she runs a blog which laboriously pores over K-Middy's fashion choices - getwhatkatewore.com .
"I was so star-struck that I was shaking and I had to ask myself: 'Am I alive?' As soon as I saw her face...I felt like I was in a dream," writes Ashlin beatifically. "You know when you think something which you know could never possibly be true … but then it is true…and you are like so shocked that you don't feel alive?"
Indeed - we felt the same way about the sartorially safe Duchess snapping up that on-trend skirt.
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