7 Wardrobe Essentials That Every Stylish Royal Woman Can’t Live Without

While the world’s best-dressed royals have differing styles, each woman’s wardrobe contains a few of the same key essentials that work world-wide for the various engagements that being a princess or queen necessitates. It’s worth a study for us commoners too, since the versatile pieces fit neatly into any closet (diamond tiara not required).

1. A Coat Dress

It’s Kate Middleton’s go-to style for visits to the charities she works with or an appearance with the fam on Buckingham Palace’s balcony. It should be no surprise that other royals love the shape too, including Norway’s Princess Mette-Marit. Understanding why is easy enough: the one-piece looks tailored and pulled together in an instant, while brilliantly toeing the line between modern minimalism and old-school good taste.

2. A Tailored Blazer

For separates dressing, there’s nothing as reliable as a smart blazer to tie pieces together and add a professional feeling. Women like Queen Letizia count on them for both their version of heading-to-the-office attire and to dress up blouses and jeans.

3. Dark Skinny Jeans

Speaking of denim: The royal preference is for a deep indigo rinse and a skinny straight leg, often cropped ever so slightly to avoid any potentially messy looking scrunching near the ankle (see the newly anointed Princess Sofia doing it perfectly). While, like us, princesses, queens, and duchesses prefer to wear their blue jeans a multitude of ways, the slim cut is the most popular for its easy ability to be dressed up.

4. Comfortable Heels

Since working royals are required to attend a lot of events that necessitate plenty of time standing, comfortable shoes are a must. If you study enough royal images, you’ll likely pick out the individual styles each woman favors. Princess Mary of Denmark relies on basic nude Christian Louboutin heels to finish many an outfit (and from this angle they appear to pass our comfortable shoe shopping test).

5. A Simple Clutch

A small, basic clutch is never distracting and typically under-the-radar (a well-trained royal wouldn’t want to make headlines for a pricey designer bag). Queen Maxima is someone who appears to have a full range of them, switching them up to match whatever outfit she’s got on.

6. Wellies

If you’re a royal, it goes without saying that you have a sprawling country estate (that may or may not technically be a castle or palace). Practical style rules require you to own and rock a pair of waterproof rain boots, a handy staple that can be worn on other iffy terrains like the Duchess of Cambridge and the polo field.

7. A Stylish Outdoors Jacket

In between all the well-heeled royal engagements you’ll notice that royals often spend time touring the countryside or getting mucky whilst rolling up their sleeves and working on an outdoors project. Photographers will undoubtedly be on hand, so it’s vital for the stylish woman to own a practical topper that’s also flattering and fashion-friendly. Princess Madeleine wore hers in an off-duty moment, but it will also work brilliantly should duty call.

Now, come meet a 30-year-old European princess with Jackie Kennedy style, and watch below to see where royals rock jeans.