Kate Middleton Jealous After Sophie Wessex Style Compared To Princess Diana: Kate’s Frumpy Commoner Fashions Can’t Compare? Sophie, Countess of Wessex attended the Everyday Heroes Awards ceremony recently and the 51-year-old countess looked amazing, a decade younger. She wore an off-the shoulder black lace dress designed by Stella McCartney that had many comparing her style to that of the late Princess Diana. No matter what Kate Middleton does, it’s very rare that anyone says Kate’s fashion sense even remotely matches that of Diana’s. In fact, most say Kate’s sense of style is the exact opposite of the late Princess Diana’s. Of course, Kate and the Kensington Palace PR machine will say Kate is forging her own style. So far, that style has ranged from frumpy and dumpy, hideous and disastrous, to common and boring. Stepping out in the Stella McCartney design, Royal watchers were reminded of Princess Diana’s above the knee post-divorce black dress. It wasn’t exactly the same, but it was reminiscent of one of Diana’s most daring fashion choice. The short off the shoulder dress Sophie wore was quite daring for a Royal wife. The words ‘glamorous’ and ‘sizzling’ were used by several publications to describe Sophie Wessex as she walked the red carpet at the Everyday Heroes Awards.