Isabel ii

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The Duchess of Cambridge stepped out today in a custom lace Alexander McQueen dress reminiscent of an outfit worn by the monarch to a garden party in Sydney on her 1954 Australia tour.

The Queen is offering royal enthusiasts the chance to get a glimpse at 150 of her favourite outfits to mark her 90th birthday in April

Her Majesty played host to locals on Saturday

Princess Charlene spent some 10 months in South Africa last year but returned to the world stage this week as she mourned the Queen at her state funeral in London.

Isabella II, Queen of Spain by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1852

She was just 5th in the line of succession, but a series of historical vagaries put the princess on the world’s most powerful throne.

Isabel II (10 October 1830, Madrid – 10 April 1904, Paris), queen regnant of Spain from 1833 until 1868. She came to the throne as an infant, bearing the impressive-by-any-standard name: Doña Isabel II por la Gracia de Dios, Reina de Castilla, de León, de Aragón, de las Dos Sicilias, de Jerusalén, de Navarra, de Granada, de Toledo, de Valencia, de Galicia, de Mallorca, de Sevilla, de Cerdeña, de Córdoba, de Córcega, de Murcia, de Menorca, de Jaén, de los Algarbes, de Algeciras, de Gibraltar…

The Duchess paid her respects

A doctor has pointed to the Queen's frail appearance at her final royal appointment as a sign that she was going to die within days.