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What Did Kate Buy on Her Latest Solo Shopping Trip?

05/15/2012 at 11:00 AM ET

Kate Middleton
Courtesy French Connection; Inset: Bauer-Griffin

We know what Kate will be wearing this summer! The Duchess of Cambridge returned to one of her favorite London shopping spots — King’s Road — on Saturday, stopping by retailer Jaeger before popping into a nearby French Connection store. While there, she picked up a winter silk vest top (left, on sale in the U.K.) in the cool blue “Iceberg” hue.

“She was very polite. She keeps to herself,” a store employee tells PEOPLE. “She was chatting to one of my colleagues in the fitting room, asking her opinion about something.”

The sales clerk noticed two men with the Duchess — bodyguards, perhaps — but says onlookers left her alone. “Some customers did notice her, although I didn’t at first,” the clerk adds.

After trying the top in two sizes — “She didn’t ask anyone to fetch it for her, she just seemed to want to be low key,” the employee says — the Duchess paid and left the store. “She was very cheery, very smiley,” the clerk shares.

Days before her April 2011 wedding, Kate visited the same stretch of shops, grabbing honeymoon-appropriate dresses at Warehouse and Banana Republic. In February, she returned to the area for an appointment at one of her favorite spots, the Richard Ward hair salon. Her casual shopping trip comes on the heels of a very glamorous week of London events.

–Reporting by Monique Jessen

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Paula on

What a sweet, respectful and charming young lady. Not showy or makes herself out of place. I applaud this wonderful couple. William is one lucky fellow!

Kim on

Cute, comfy looking top. But please, enough with the pregnancy chatter. They’ll have children when they’re ready. They’ve only been married a year!

LAZYKATIE on

Ahh, the workshy duchess doolittle….

Victoria on

I love that she is down to earth… that she shops for herself instead of having an entourage or hire people to do it for her.

Wonder on

It’s nice that she does not have to have her closet fill with designer clothes or tailored outfits even though she is a royal. I wonder if other royals do that. I don’t think I ever heard of any royals shopping at this kind of store or do groceries shopping for themselves. It’s nice that she does all these on her own.

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