The Year in Kate Middleton’s Hair, 2016 Edition

By Josh Duboff. Photos via Getty Images.

There is a lot of uncertainty in all of our lives right now, but there is one constant, infallible source of great delight. A slice of delicious cheesecake in a world that is an ocean of bland oatmeal. We are talking, of course, about the hair of the Duchess of Cambridge. What else? Though it presents itself in all sorts of variations over the course of a year, Kate’s hair manages to remain, itself, a constant: powerful, luminous, resilient. May we all find energy and rebirth in it.

And with that, for the fourth year running, let us begin our journey through the year in Kate’s hair.

This story originally appeared on Vanity Fair.

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