Queen Elizabeth was known collegially as “the Rainbow Queen,” keen to wear a myriad of colors so that wherever she went, she could be spotted in a crowd. Typically the brighter the better—think lime green, electric blue, and hot pink—there were few colors that Her late Majesty didn’t try, believing, as she once famously said, that she had to be seen to be believed.
Her granddaughter-in-law, the Princess of Wales, also wears a variety of colors (though she does seem to prefer blue—and for a time, the other women of the royal family were following suit). There are three colors, though, that Kate rarely gravitates towards: orange, purple, and dark brown, The Daily Express reports. Why? The outlet dug into it with fashion stylist Francesca Cairns.
