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The new duchess's evening gown looked to be a pared back version of her wedding dress, without the lace overlay.

Kate sticks to winning formula with evening McQueen creation 2011

The palace spokesman said the charities had been chosen to reflect the duchess's personal interests in the arts, the promotion of outdoor activities and the support of young people.

Duchess of Cambridge names the charities she will support 2012

Specifically, the duchess's ovaries have been designated Archer's Toynbee Hall: the locus of his struggle to improve society, at the same time that he redeems a reputation tainted by dishonesty and the misuse of prostitutes.

Royal succession is a feminist issue. Or so the men say | Catherine Bennett 2011

But access to the octogenerian recluse is blocked by the adamantine figure of the duchess's lawyer, Maitre Suzanne Blum.

The Last of the Duchess – review 2011

And the big question is whether Blum is the duchess's sinister, exploitative captor, as Blackwood believes, or simply a lawyer protecting her client.

The Last of the Duchess – review 2011

To non-conservatives, or republicans – or, you might think, to Nick Clegg – the arrival of equal rights for the duchess's putative daughter might look less impressive.

Royal succession is a feminist issue. Or so the men say | Catherine Bennett 2011

However, the duchess's lawyer, the eccentric, powerful Suzanne Blum stands in her way.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

Even the duchess's visit to the exhibition will be with her mother-in-law, rather than her husband.

Duchess of Cambridge wedding dress steals the show at Buckingham Palace 2011

Nicholas Wright's new play, The Last of the Duchess, is based on Caroline Blackwood's 1995 book about the last years of Wallis Simpson, when, after the death of the Duke of Windsor, she lived though rumour had her secretly dead as a recluse in Paris, guarded by her lawyer, Maître Suzanne Blum, who was suspected by some of stealing and selling the duchess's jewellery.

The Last of the Duchess; 13; The Village Social – review 2011

Wright's play starts with Blackwood, a colourful Irish aristocrat, arriving at the duchess's Paris apartment in 1980 to write a piece about her for the Sunday Times magazine.

The Last of the Duchess – review 2011