She's giving the gift of bold style this Christmas.
Princess Anne may be a rule-abiding royal, but that doesn’t mean her daughter Zara Tindall is also a stickler for protocol. Case in point? On Friday, the granddaughter of the late Queen Elizabeth gave the gift of bold style at Kate Middleton’s “Together at Christmas” carol concert while flipping the script on traditional royal fashion.
Arriving at Westminster Abbey alongside Princess Beatrice, who is pregnant with her second child, and her husband, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Tindall made a daring statement with her lustrous velvet pantsuit in a festive burgundy hue. The Veronica Beard separates included a double-breasted jacket and a matching pair of wide-leg pants that showed off her leather heels in a similar shade underneath.
Not throwing royal protocol out the window completely, Zara layered a coordinating button-down shirt beneath her jacket and accessorized with glittering amethyst earrings. Beauty-wise, she pulled her blonde hair back into a bun positioned at the nape of her neck and added a berry-colored lip and metallic manicure to her look.
Last month, Tindall shared her plans for the holidays and offered rare insight into how the royal family spends Christmas.
According a source at Hello!, she revealed that she and her family would be celebrating at Sandringham, noting that all the royals wear black-tie to dinner on Christmas Eve, which is then followed by a gift exchange. “We give presents to each other on Christmas Eve,” Tindall said, adding a heartwarming tidbit: “As adults, we still have stockings on Christmas Day.”
When pressed if the late Queen Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip, also had stockings, she replied: "Of course."