Cut-price Kate sports a £35 dress from Hobbs as she joins the country in countdown to Olympic Games.

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry join in a sports festival at Bacon's College to launch the new "Coach Core" program which will train teenagers to become qualified coaches and mentors. The British royal family participate in soccer, table tennis, and karate during their visit. 

Not long after Kate Middleton wears a designer dress, an affordable knock-off debuts for the rest of us. But on Thursday, she cut out the middleman and wore a discount dress right off the sale rack of Hobbs, a mid-priced British department store and label. The '50s-inspired, knee-length linen "Check Wessex" dress priced at around $60 (slashed by 70 percent!) was her sporting uniform at a pre-Olympics launch of a school program promoting future athletes. 

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge,  join in a sports festival at Bacon's College to launch the new "Coach Core" program which will train teenagers to become qualified coaches and mentors.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge talks to Prince Harry as she attends a reception during a visit to Bacon's College on July 26, 2012 in London, England.

 

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry join in a sports festival at Bacon's College to launch the new "Coach Core" program which will train teenagers to become qualified coaches and mentors. The British royal family participate in soccer, table tennis, and karate during their visit.