Duchess Catherine will have to change clothes six times on Christmas Day if she is to be accepted into the royal fold.


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The pressure will be on the former Kate Middleton to come up with the right number of outfits as she spends her first Christmas Day with the in-laws, according to royal watchers.

“She won’t be able to wear the same outfit twice,” etiquette expert Jean Broke-Smith told Grazia magazine.

“Catherine will need: a casual outfit for breakfast; a smart outfit for the morning church service; a dress for lunch; a cocktail dress for early evening drinks, and a full-length dress for the evening meal.”

Broke-Smith is perhaps too coy to mention the night-time, but unless the wife of the future king goes naked to bed, a nightdress makes it six clothes changes in one day.