Duchess of Cambridge stuns in pink Alexander McQueen dress at the National Portrait Gallery

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Laura Proto5 May 2016

The Duchess of Cambridge has visited the National Portrait Gallery this evening to view photographs from her Vogue cover shoot.

Kate, who adorns the cover of the fashion bible’s June centenary issue, stunned in a pink Alexander McQueen ensemble as she attended her third engagement of the day.

The photographs, taken by British photographer Josh Olins, show the Duchess looking casual and relaxed in the Norfolk countryside.

In a black-and-white close-up shot, Kate wears a black fedora hat from Beyond Retro and a charcoal brown double-breasted suede coat and white shirt, both from Burberry.

Elegant: Kate dazzled in the Alexander McQueen outfit (PA Wire)

In a colour photograph shot in soft January sunlight, Kate is leaning on a rustic gate, wearing a black and red striped long-sleeved top from Petit Bateau and black Burberry trousers.

The photos are part of the Vogue 100: A Century Of Style exhibition, and are on public view in the National Portrait Gallery, where Kate has been a patron since 2012.

The latest photos of the Duchess were styled by British Vogue fashion director Lucinda Chambers and a colour image of the Duchess in the brown Burberry coat and fedora is on the cover of the magazine's June issue, which is out on Thursday.

Speaking to Olins, Kate said of the portraits: "It doesn't look like January. You did a very good job."

The Duchess, a keen photographer herself who has taken official pictures of Prince George and Princess Charlotte, discussed photography with Olins as well as the exhibition decision-making process.

She continued to admire the photographs, she told Olins: "Thank you Josh. Really good to see you again."

Gallery: The Duchess of Cambridge admired the photos from the Vogue shoot 
Ian Gavan/PA Wire

As she was shown around the exhibition, the Duchess asked lots of questions and commented on the glamorous images.

She said one had "fantastic texture" and also remarked on the decision to frame a collection of images with red frames on a red wall - a look she described as "red on red".

Kate asked about how the exhibition was "split up into different sections" as each room shows off a different decade.

Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, showed the Duchess around the exhibition, and afterwards said: "She has a good eye."

He added: "She's really knowledgeable. I mean this is not the first time I've met her, and what came across in my first meeting with her is that, obviously she studied art history and she has a real understanding of art history and especially photography, but also a real enthusiasm for it.

"She really is genuinely engaged and she was asking some very intelligent and engaged questions tonight as we went around.

"It's always a joy to talk to someone when they really understand and have a love for a subject."

He said she asked "detailed" questions about the process, the technicalities, from taking an image to choosing how to print it and how to hang it.

Mr Cullinan added: "She definitely knows her stuff."

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