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the Canadian maple leaf on a hat
It looks like Kate gets "ethnic" on her various trips around the world. She even managed to find something "Canadian" on her trip to Canada last summer. The floral prints which she wore in the Solomon Islands this September were in solidarity with the Governor General's wife, who wore her own island floral print dress.
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in Honiara, Solomon Islands
But it is the truly exotic which seems to earn Kate's special respect. Going barefoot and hijabed is one of the ways she shows that respect. She's not alone, and has illustrious role models to follow.
Queen Elizabeth also went barefoot, and diligently covered her head when she went to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi in 2010, and at the Green Mosque in Turkey in 2008.
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the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
in Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi
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with slippers and a head scarf
Princess Diana wore Islamic dress on many of her trips. And the Crown Prince himself, Kate's father-in-law said this about Islam:
The Islamic world is the custodian of one of the greatest treasuries of accumulated wisdom and spiritual knowledge available to humanity. It is both Islam’s noble heritage and a priceless gift to the rest of the world.It is no wonder, then, that this deep respect transfers to Kate Middleton, wife of the future King of England, and head of the Church of England, who enters a mosque with her shoes off.
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in Malaysia, Respectfully shoeless
with a dress and scarf reminiscent
of her mother-in-law's below
And who else is the role model for Kate but her mother-in-law Princess Diana. Below, she gracefully puts on a pretty floral scarf that matches her green dress, as she enters the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo in 1992.
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At one time, the monarchs of England fought wars to ward off Islamic invaders. Now, they subserviently enter their places of worship.