So here is my 9th set of items inspired by Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.

I am hoping to upload the set soon, but the Sims 2 submission system has been unreliable since before Christmas and is currently not working at all. The Sims 3 submission system doesn't seem to be working at the moment either. Please correct me if I am wrong about any of this.

My new set comprises five outfits and one hat.

This set requires four meshes available at TSR.

I love Kate's style and like almost everything she wears so, as usual, I was spoilt for choice. Eventually, I settled on the following five outfits for this set (in order of date worn):

1. This is an outfit which Kate wore on June 12th 2011 to attend a church service in Windsor to celebrate the 90th birthday of her grandfather-in-law, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. I love this striking brocade coat in a beautiful shade of blue designed by Jane Troughton for Pocket Venus. Kate had worn it previously to a wedding in 2009 with different accessories. On this occasion, she wore the coat over the famous blue Zara dress which she wore the morning after her wedding and accessorised it with her nude L. K. Bennett wedge pumps and a very cute Jane Corbett hat. I have done my best to create a hat as similar as possible to the original but there seem to be very few headwear meshes available. I used a the very cute Veil Cap mesh by H.Lin from 2007 available at TSR. The main outfit uses mesh 150211 by BBKZ. I love this silhouette on Kate. It's very flattering and feminine.

2. Kate wore this outfit on 6th December 2011 to attend a Gary Barlow fundraising concert at The Royal Albert Hall in London. This outfit is quite different from her usual style. The skirt is much shorter than those she usually favours and we don't often see her in dark tights. The black lace tulip dress is by Zara and is worn with a black collarless 3/4 sleeve jacket by Ralph Lauren (another favourite of mine, previously worn the morning after her wedding with the dress in the first outfit of this set). I used ulkrhsn's 006 mesh for this outfit.

3. On February 8th 2012, Kate attended her first official solo public engagement, a visit to the National Portrait Gallery in London to view the new Lucian Freud exhibit. She wore an unusual double breasted coat dress by Jesiré featuring a knee length flared skirt, elbow length sleeves, an ornate belt and a striking shawl collar. She accessorised the dress with a diamond pendant, diamond bracelet (both included) and black suede Jimmy Choo platform pumps. Again I used mesh 150211 by BBKZ for this outfit.

4. The 15th of March 2012 was a busy day for Kate. In the morning she visited the Olympic Park in London and played some hockey. In the afternoon she visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery wearing a gorgeous grey Orla Kiely dress featuring a pleated knee length skirt, self-tie belt, 3/4 sleeves and contrast black floral appliqué at the neckline. The dress was worn with black suede platform pumps. Again I used mesh 150211 by BBKZ for this outfit.

5. And bringing us bang up to date, the outfit Kate wore on her most recent public engagement on 19th March 2012, a visit to the Treehouse in Ipswich, part of the East Anglia Children's Hospices group, which included her first taste of public speaking. She wore the Trina dress by Reiss from 2008. Reiss is not my favourite company, but I do like this dress. It has quite an eighties vibe, being electric blue, knee length, double breasted and worn with a thick black belt. The dress also features an oversized statement collar and full length sleeves gathered at the shoulder with buttons at the cuff. Kate usually substitutes the belts that come with outfits for belts of her own, but on this occasion she wore the original belt. I think it goes with the dress very well. Again she wore black suede platform pumps. For this outfit I used Elena's Cocktail mesh, which I used previously in my Kate For Christmas set. This mesh includes a stonking pair of platform heels.