IT WAS the fresh-faced female generation who led the Regal way in Wintery style as they trooped in to Westminster Abbey to celebrate the Queen's 60th Wedding Anniversary.

As ever, Zara Phillips, singled out as favourite amongst fashionistas, secured her position when wearing the shortest coat - showing her as the least conservative within the Royal chic.

With her Bohemian (French beret), trendy (revealingly long legs finished with a pair of ankle boots) look, she wasn't quite as trend-setting as one would think.

After the initial admiration of Eugenie and Beatrice's classic attire, you cannot help but wonder whether there is an unwritten code for the royal granddaughters to dress in sync, an unofficial uniform if you will.

Seriously: Varying shades of grey, accompanied by quasi-identical black opaque tights and heels, black gloves, black clutch-like bags, with a sprinkle of apparent personality in the form of three issued berets.

An innovative break from the apparent hat norm they are accustomed to it might be, but avant-garde, it is not. Of course we all know fashion revolves on a proverbial ferris wheel, so the all-year-round footless leggings we try not to buy today might seem all the rage in 2020.

Perhaps by emulating a romanticism reminiscent of film noir, what they might actually be doing is triple-handedly reviving a classic look by giving it a modern edge.

And, talking of modern edges, perhaps they have inherited their "modern-edge" gene from their granny. After all it was only last week Her Majesty was voted among the most glamorous dressers in the world. Some might be raising an eyebrow or two, since the Queen has usually been seen as a conservative dresser, but consider this: She has been noted to be a fashion icon, in the sense that she has decided on her outer identity from an early age, unwavering and unaffected by fashion trends.

Her granddaughters might be trying to find their own fashion path amongst the constraints of the royal protocol, unwittingly sparking a renewed interest in the fashion of a bygone era.

And if their coats and combined accessories catch on as a re-emerging trend, then it's hats off to them.