Royal style vs. substance: Princess of Wales wants her work to be the focus, not what she’s wearing [Video]

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​​​​​​It is, perhaps, a quintessential quandary: style versus substance, and whether one should hold sway over the other.

The Princess of Wales — or a source speaking for her — waded in the other day. They let it be known that Kensington Palace would no longer be regularly sharing word about the clothes Catherine is wearing in the hope that the attention she inevitably attracts would focus more on her work.

The Sunday Times quoted a palace source saying: “There is an absolute feeling that it [the public work] is not about what the princess is wearing. She wants the focus to be on the really important issues, the people and the causes she is spotlighting. 

“There will always be an appreciation of what the princess is wearing from some of the public and she gets that. …