What Netflix documentary? Sophie Wessex attends Royal Navy parade

Sophie Wessex brushed off Harry and Meghan’s latest Netflix episode today – appearing at the Lord High Admiral’s Passing Out Parade in Devon. 

The Countess, 57, was noticed smiling and laughing as she braved winter season weather at the Britannia Royal Naval Higher education in Dartmouth.

Hunting normally classy, the mother of two wrapped up warm in a lengthy navy coat and black hat. 

She accompanied it with a black clutch bag, scarf and superior-heeled boots which she wore on the slippery frosty surface area.  

She was all smiles as she attended the passing out parade at Britannia Royal Navy School in the cold

The function saw a parade of 200 potential naval leaders go out at the Britannia Royal Naval Higher education – the spiritual dwelling of the Royal Navy’s Officer Corps.

It was a working day to mark the formal conclude of instruction, and experienced appropriate pomp and ceremony.

The Countess saluted as 170 Royal Navy cadets, 30 officers from intercontinental navies and 17 cadets from the Royal Fleet Auxiliary formally completed months of intense schooling at the Dartmouth institution.

In a speech, she reported: ‘This is a big instant in your lives – the moment when you develop into serving officers in His Majesty’s Navy, the moment when you leave all the hard teaching powering you and get up the mantle of responsibility. 

‘Until now you have been on the lookout to many others to guidebook you and display you the way. From now on, it is you who will be leading some others. Major – and foremost perfectly – can take ability.

‘Officers who stand out are those people who put the males and ladies with whom they provide very first and in carrying out so seem to foster bonds of loyalty, reliability and respect.

‘A new era of naval officers is born today. I hope you will be very pleased of what you have attained and what you will go on to achieve.’

The Countess, who was a company favorite with the Queen, seemed usually trendy and cheerful at the party.

She wore a warm black hat and remaining her blonde hair unfastened over her shoulders.

Carrying gentle make-up with just a trace of mascara and lipstick, she accessorised her outfit with fall earrings and a black clutch bag. 

She also wore a extended navy coat that she beforehand wore on Remembrance Working day 2020.

The Countess was her standard sophisticated and smiling self as she attended the Passing Out parade in Devon

Braving the cold: The Countess was very well wrapped-up as she attended the Lord Substantial Admiral’s Passing Out parade 

Getting a giggle: The Countess appeared in fantastic spirits as she braved in cold and frost in Devon 

The Countess was a short while ago honoured by Hillary Clinton for remaining a trailblazer for women’s rights 

The Countess was wrapped up warmly for the party in thick navy winter coat, a cosy scarf and hat 

Sophie Wessex is considered to have worn the same coat as she attended a provider on Armistice Day 2020 (pictured) 

The 2020 function to honour the nation’s fallen soldiers was held at the Nationwide Memorial Arboretum in Lichfield

The Countess – who is a entire-time functioning member of the royal spouse and children – is recognized for her personable manner and packed diary.

Recently she was forced to pause her speech and talk to for a tissue soon after turning out to be emotional as she was honoured by Hillary Clinton as an ‘extraordinary trailblazer’ for functioning to encourage women’s rights.

The Countess asked the audience at the The Georgetown Institute for Females, Peace and Protection in Washington DC: ‘Would you just forgive me for a minute? I just require a tissue.’

She was then noticed walking off stage, right before returning to the podium to describe: ‘That’s a initially for me… didn’t want me carry on sniffling throughout,’ she included.

The compassionate royal laughed off her unplanned interlude and carried on with poise, profitable the hearts of the audience. 

The royal, who is married to Queen Elizabeth II’s youngest son, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Forfar, was recognised for her operate campaigning from sexual violence in conflict zones at the annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards ceremony.

The elegant royal opted for a fashionable leather skirt and white blouse to satisfy Hilary, 75, who surprised in a fuchsia coat 

The Countess, 57, questioned the audience at the The Georgetown Institute for Women of all ages, Peace and Security in Washington DC: ‘Would you just forgive me for a moment? I just have to have a tissue.’

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, speaks through the Hillary Rodham Clinton awards ceremony at Georgetown College in Washington

The party was attended by the Countess, Ukraine’s Very first Woman Olena Zelenska and the United kingdom and Ukrainian ambassadors to the US. 

Sophie seemed beautiful in an off-white shirt with significant sleeves, pinned in at the wrists.  The classy royal paired her ethereal with a trendy leather-based skirt, ending just higher than her ankles. 

She concluded her sophisticated look with a big gold chain necklace, and statement hairdo. 

Meanwhile, Hilary, 75, commanded awareness in a fuchsia pink coat and statement gold necklace.

The two females have been joined on phase by Georgetown University president John J. DeGioia who presented the award to the Countess.

The awards are bestowed each year by the former US Secretary of Condition for ‘exceptional management in advancing women’s legal rights and building a additional peaceful and secure globe for all’. 

The royal is in the US on her 2nd excursion to there this 12 months, immediately after she dealt with the UN about violence against women in March. 

Sophie has been lauded by the awards as ‘a total-time working member of the Royal Household and a patron of around 70 charities and organisations.’ 

At the summit, the Countess of Wessex described her encounter checking out hospitals for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She praised physicians there and claimed that she hoped passing on her working experience conference survivors would assist folks to try to remember their ‘humanity’. 

Sophie earlier worked with the Georgetown Institute in March, as it co-hosted an function on Upholding Women’s Legal rights in Afghanistan with the Group of Close friends of Women in Afghanistan and UN Gals.

She has travelled to conflict places which includes Kosovo, Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra Leone and other folks to ‘respond to the requires of survivors as nicely as to deal with the stigma and suffering that endure and do not diminish with time.’

‘She listens to their harrowing tales, is influenced by their determination not to be defined by what is actually happened to them,’ the host of present-day award ceremony said.

On Worldwide Women’s Working day 2019, Sophie announced her determination to winner the Women, Peace and Protection Agenda and the Preventing Violence in Conflict Initiative, for which she has ‘provided lively leadership’.

The Countess also travelled to New York earlier this 12 months in her purpose as Worldwide Ambassador of 100 Gals in Finance’s Upcoming Technology Initiative.