Kate Middleton Breaks Her Spring Style Formula for Sneakers and Capri Pants

Alicia Brunker
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Kate Middleton Breaks Her Spring Style Formula for Sneakers and Capri Pants

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Kate Middleton made a rare style move on Monday morning, and ditched her signature dress and high-heel combo for something a bit more comfortable.

While visiting the Chelsea Flower Show to present her "Back to Nature" garden design, the duchess dressed down for the great outdoors, wearing a pair of wide-leg capri pants in camel, Superga sneakers, and a white eyelet blouse by M.i.h Jeans. She also kept her jewelry to a minimum with a silver watch (practical), her sapphire engagement ring, and drop earrings.

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While Kate's look was totally laid-back, she still maintained a fresh blowout and a glowing complexion. She is a princess, after all.

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Kate proudly showed off the garden she created to schoolchildren ahead of its official opening tomorrow. She was photographed climbing up into a tree house, roasting marshmallows by the fire, and putting her hand in a stream to pick out a stick. In our book, she's a total camping pro.

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Over the weekend, it was revealed that Kate co-built the garden with landscape architects Andrée Davies and Adam White as a way to advocate the physical and mental benefits of the outdoors.

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Thank you everyone that joined The Duchess of Cambridge in her #RHSChelsea Back to Nature Garden this morning! Ahead of joining The Queen and Members of @TheRoyalFamily at the #ChelseaFlowerShow on Monday evening, The Duchess was joined by local schoolchildren for some outdoor activities, including reed boat baking and marshmallow toasting. The Duchess also took the opportunity to thank the incredible team of collaborators who have been involved in the project. The Duchess has designed @The_RHS Back to Nature Garden to inspire children, families and communities to get outside and enjoy the huge benefits that nature has on our physical and mental wellbeing.

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👀 We invite you to take a sneak peek at The Duchess of Cambridge’s #RHSChelsea ‘Back to Nature’ Garden! The woodland wilderness garden aims to get people back to nature, and highlight the benefits of the natural world on our mental and physical wellbeing. Speaking ahead of @The_RHS garden unveiling, The Duchess of Cambridge said: “In recent years I have focussed much of my work on the early years, and how instrumental they are for outcomes later in life. I believe that spending time outdoors when we are young can play a role in laying the foundations for children to become happy, healthy adults.” Some features of the #ChelseaFlowerShow garden include: 1. A swing seat hanging below the garden’s centrepiece, a high platform tree house, encouraging creative play and discovery for all generations. 2. The high platform tree house is inspired by a bird or animal nest and provides a wonderful place to retreat and look out through the trees. The treehouse is made from chestnut, with hazel, stag horn oak and larch nest cladding. 3/4. The garden is aiming to inspire interaction with the natural environment through its multi-sensory, green and blue plant scheme. The garden will be filled with incredible edibles, plants for craft activities, forest scents and a diverse range of plants, shrubs and trees of different heights and textures. The garden forms part of Her Royal Highness’s ongoing work on early childhood development and her mission to support efforts that give every child the best possible start in life. The Duchess has committed to making early childhood development the focus of her work in the years to come, and believes that providing children with the opportunity to spend time outdoors can play an important role.

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By the looks of these photos, Kate is totally in her element.