LE STAR IN DOLCE ATTESA

Leaving: A source told a newspaper that the Duchess was 'charming and so lovely' to staff inside the shop

Casual dress: The Duchess had changed into a navy blue dress and magenta cardigan for her shop in Chelsea

Walking away: Kate has one more scheduled official public engagement before she goes on maternity leave

Last week: The Duchess of Cambridge (top centre)
arrives with Prince William (top right) and Prince Harry (right), and
(left-to-right) Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Prince Philip and
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, for a service celebrating the 60th
anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's coronation at Westminster Abbey on
Tuesday

‘She was feeling the heat so we sat her
down with a glass of water. The Duchess was charming and so lovely. She
didn’t put on any airs or graces. She said she’d got so many ideas after
coming in.’

The
Duchess has one more scheduled official public engagement before she
goes on maternity leave, when she names a ship on Thursday in
Southampton, Hampshire.

Kate
will also attend Trooping the Colour next week to mark the Queen’s
birthday - and is debating whether to join William at the Order of the
Garter ceremony in Windsor a few days later.

Bernard
Thorp, which was founded in 1971, says on its website that its ‘hand
screen printed fabrics and wall coverings are of impeccable quality with
an ethos of service second to none’.