Princess Anne’s Best Repeat Outfits

This blue fur-lined coat has seen Princess Anne through five decades worth of winters. In her 20s, she wore it to the 1976 wedding of Chris Collins and Susanne Lumb. After that, it reappeared at an event in 1983.

It went on to become her go-to look for Christmas morning services in Sandringham. She wore it on Christmas Day not just in 2003 and 2006, but also in 2008 and 2012, with a similar hat and knee-high black boots. Like they say, if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

The classic lines and color palette of this cream and navy coat make it another springtime favorite of Princess Anne’s that she’s been able to rewear throughout the decades. She first wore it to the Royal Ascot on June 17, 1980, and again to the Derby at Epsom Downs on June 5, 1985, with the same small white hat.

The Princess Royal revisited the coat in 2015—this time with a broad-rimmed hat—when she wore it to two different garden parties at Buckingham Palace, including one on May 28, 2015, and another on June 11, 2015. She rewore the same outfit again on March 12, 2018, to the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.

Apparently one orange hat is not enough. Princess Anne has worn this cream skirt suit with orange trim with a few different toppers throughout the years. For Trooping the Colour on June 13, 1987, she paired the outfit with a small white and orange hat, while she opted for a broad cream chapeau to shade her face on June 5, 2008, at the Founders Day Parade at Chelsea Royal Hospital.

For a church service held on April 17, 2012, in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in Pretoria, South Africa, the Princess Royal accessorized the skirt suit with a large orange hat. After that, she wore the outfit sans hat to attend the Centenary Annual Meeting of the National Federation Of Women’s Institute at Royal Albert Hall in London on June 4, 2015, and again at Royal Ascot on June 18, 2025.

Proving that an investment coat doesn’t have to be a basic color like black or navy, Princess Anne wore this purple number to at least six public events from 1982 to 2004. First, she wore it on November 16, 1982, to welcome Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for a state visit. About a year later, on November 2, 1983, she wore it to the unveiling of the Mountbatten Memorial Statue in London.

In the ’90s, the purple coat made appearances at the Commonwealth Day observance service at Westminster Abbey on March 9, 1992, and at a lunch at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich on November 20, 1997.

Most recently, Princess Anne wore it on Christmas Day at Sandringham in 2001, and again on Christmas 2004, without the belt this time.

A more recent favorite, this green coat paired with a jaunty hat and slouchy boots shows that Princess Anne is one of the more adventurous members of the royal family when it comes to fashion.

She first wore the ensemble to the Cheltenham Festival on March 16, 2012. The next year, she wore it—sans hat—to the Afghanistan Operational Service Medals parade on May 24, 2013, in Abingdon, England. Three years later in 2016, she chose it as her Christmas Day outfit. As a throwback to the outfit’s debut, she wore it to the Cheltenham Festival 2020 on March 13 earlier this year.

A spin on her go-to cream and navy color palette, Princess Anne has worn this pale yellow and navy coat with its matching striped hat five times starting with an Easter service at Windsor Castle in 2007. She brought it out of her closet again in 2009 for the Royal Ascot, and 10 years later for the 2019 wedding of her cousin Lady Gabriella Windsor to Thomas Kingston at Windsor’s St George’s Chapel. Most recently, she wore it while visiting New Zealand in February 2023, and meeting a giant tortoise on the island of Jersey in July 2023.

Princess Anne has been rewearing this green pussybow blouse with a coordinating skirt suit for nearly three decades. As the patron of the Save the Children Fund, Princess Anne wore it to the Circle Of Friends Annual Blanket Thanksgiving Service on February 27, 1991. Then, she was photographed in it holding a falcon at an event on June 26, 1999, and again for a visit to Greenacre School in Surrey on May 17, 2001. After a long break, she dug it out of her closet for the Royal Windsor Horse Show on May 10, 2019.

At the 2023 Royal Ascot, Princess Anne once again proved she’s the master of repeats, re-wearing a green dress she wore to Ascot five years earlier, in 2015. She switched up the hats and the accessories, however.

Anne’s dedication to rewears is impressive: The Princess Royal wore the same light blue dress in 1978 (during a visit by the President of Botswana), in 2022 (to visit Brompton Cemetery), and once more in 2023 at the Royal Ascot.

This yellow plaid coat has been in Anne’s wardrobe since the 1980s. Here, she wears the coat to Easter Service at Windsor Castle in 1987, Royal Ascot in 1988, a trip to the Russia in 1990, and most recently at the Palace of Holyroodhouse following a National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication to the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in July 2023.