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Discount Duchess: Kate’s high street highlights

The Duchess of Cambridge is the style queen when it comes blending luxury fashion labels and high street bargain brands.

If you’re a fan of Kate Middleton’s dress sense then you’ll be glad to hear that you might be able to play copycat without breaking the bank.

The Duchess of Cambridge is renowned for breaking snooty style protocol by opting to wear high street brands while attending official royal engagements.

Thrifty Kate seems to have her fashionable feet firmly on the ground as she is often spotted re-wearing outfits and mixing a luxe labels with bargain brands.

Here are some of the biggest high street hits that the queen-to-be has been spotted in over the years.

It appears that the Duchess of Cambridge has a good eye for a bargain!

The Duchess of Cambridge looked demure and elegant in this cerulean LK Bennett’s ‘Detroit’ dress earlier this year which has now sold out.

Kate wore a clover green Hobbs coat to a St Patrick’s Day Parade in March.

The Duchess of Cambridge wears an earthy Orla Kiely dress for ‘Only Connect’ charity visit in November 2013.

This Topshop polka-dot number is one of Kate’s favourites. The Duchess got away with wearing the loose dress on a few occasions during her pregnancy.

As she prepared to jet off on her honeymoon The Duchess of Cambridge walked hand in hand across the grounds of Buckingham Palace with her new husband, Prince William wearing an ink blue Zara dress and black blazer.

The Duchess of Cambridge looked elegant in a full chiffon skirt and lace panelled Reiss dress for a day at Epsom races.

The Queen, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Philip looked like a sharp trio as they walked through a train station in London. To kick off the Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK Kate chose a deep pine green collarless Jude tailored jacket with a kick-pleat at the bottom by LK Bennett.

In patriotic style Kate wore a red Zara blazer to watch the 2012 Olympic swimming finals in London.

Kate turned to a high street label once again when she wore a printed Whistles dress to the Olympic closing ceremony in 2012.

The Duchess wore a Jonathan Saunders dress and LK Bennett heels in the Solomon Islands in September 2012.

Kate looked lovely in this yellow Jaeger dress as she toured the tropical Solomon Islands.

Kate wore this 50s-inspired grey and cream dress from Hobbs while touring a school. The Duchess teamed the look with a white woven belt and her favourite summer slingback wedges.

Kate looked stylish in this Max Mara Studio Line dress while at an event in West London in February 2013.

The royal covered up her baby-bump in this collared Topshop number while at Child Bereavement headquarters on March 19, 2013.

While at the National Review of the Queen’s Scouts at Windsor Castle a heavily pregnant Duchess wore a luxury mint green Mulberry coat but teamed her look with high street pink L.K.Bennett heels and a Whiteley hat.

In April 2013 while visiting the Willows School in Manchester Kate Middleton showed off her baby bump in a fitted printed dress.

Kate Middleton wore a Hobbs dress and hat by Sylvia Fletcher for Lock and Company at Royal Princess Cruise ship naming ceremony, Southampton in June 2013.

A smart-casual Kate Middleton wore a Smythe blazer, J Brand Jeans and Russell and Bromley wedges to the SportsAid Athlete Workshop at the Olympic Park in London on October 2013.

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