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Kate Middleton<\/a> is sporting her second outfit of the day during a surprise visit to Northern Ireland<\/a> with Prince William<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n The Prince and Princess of Wales, both 43, made an unannounced trip to Northern Ireland on Oct. 14, making a series of visits with local organizations. Their first stop was to the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service’s (NIFRS) new Learning and Development College in Cookstown, where they participated in drills and learned about how the next generation of firefighters is developing their skills there.\n<\/p>\n Princess Kate wore a familiar outfit for the first engagement, sporting an olive green Alexander McQueen coat dress that has been in her closet for at least five years. Kate \u2014 who is known for recycling outfits<\/a>, often years apart<\/a> \u2014\u00a0debuted the piece during a January 2020 visit to Bradford Town Hall<\/a> before reusing the coat at the royal family’s Christmas church outing<\/a> in 2022.\n<\/p>\n <\/span> Before departing the firefighter education center, Kate switched up her outfit, swapping the long jacket for a shorter coat that revealed a brown skirt. She also changed her shoes, taking off her heeled boots for flat ones.<\/p>\n The quick change prepped her for their next stop of the day: Mallon Farm, a flax farm in County Tyrone that is spearheading the revival of flax growing to make linen in an eco-conscious\u00a0way.\n<\/p>\n While at the farm, Princess Kate got to work, trying out a restored heritage machine that is used for “breaking and scutching” the flax.\n<\/p>\n <\/span> Prince William and Princess Kate learned from Helen Keys and Charlie Mallon from the farm about the growing process and taking the flax from “field to fibre to fabric.”<\/p>\n To finish up their visit to the farm, the royal couple also met with Northern Irish linen designers and manufacturers.\n<\/p>\n The Princess of Wales has been a longtime supporter of the importance of the British textiles industry and its role as part of the U.K.\u2019s cultural and creative voice, and she’s visited manufacturers to highlight the industry. In a personal tie, her paternal ancestors were the owners of the woollen manufacturer and merchant, William Lupton & Co, which was based in Leeds.\n<\/p>\n Can’t get enough of PEOPLE’s Royals coverage?\u00a0Sign up for our free Royals newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n <\/span> William and Kate last visited Northern Ireland together<\/a> in October 2022, shortly after they became Prince and Princess of Wales following the death of\u00a0Queen Elizabeth<\/a> the prior month.<\/p>\n William was also in the capital city of Belfast in November 2024, where he took a ride on a motorbike<\/a> simulator at a university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NEED TO KNOW Kate Middleton changed outfits between engagements during a surprise visit to Northern Ireland with Prince William After seeing a fire rescue learning center, the Princess of Wales did a quick change before a visit to a flax farm At Mallon Farm, Princess Kate went to work on a restored machine as she … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kate-Middleton-Does-Quick-Change-in-Northern-Ireland-Fits-in.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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