ROYAL WEDDING: Spotted, three unlucky women in leopard print

It can take weeks – if not months – to pick that perfect outfit for a wedding.

But when it comes to the morning of the big day, there’s always a gnawing fear that someone else might have had the same idea.

Seldom, however, does a woman concern herself that two other people might have chosen the same creation.

Spot of bother: Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe (left) and Meghan
Gunderman in the same Matthew Williamson
leopard print coat

 

One can only imagine the horror these three guests experienced when they spotted each other at Westminster Abbey on Friday.

 

 

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They had all picked British designer Matthew Williamson’s leopard-print linen swing coat with beaded sleeves.

 

Looks familiar: Another guest in the same jacket - but with a different dress underneath

It’s not as if it was on offer at Primark. The coat costs £1,015 from Williamson’s spring/summer 2011 collection.

Among those wearing it was Prince William’s one-time love interest Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, 31.

The leggy actress and model, who dated Virgin heir Sam Branson, was given a run for her money by dark-haired Meghan Gunderman, a friend that Kate Middleton  and the prince made while they studied at St Andrews University.

Although the two young women wore different headgear, both had opted for Williamson’s thigh-skimming leopard-effect corset dress at £595 underneath and shiny black stilettos.

A third, more mature, guest had teamed the coat with a demure knee-length silver pencil skirt and feathered organza hat.

Manchester-born Williamson, 39, found fame in the 1990s when his exotic coloured scarves and accessories caught the eye of supermodels such as Kate Moss.

He opened his first shop in Mayfair in 2004.

Last month, the designer launched his own line of bridal wear. However, he  declared that he had no interest in dressing the royal bride herself, saying that it wasn’t his ‘thing’.

He said at a Vogue party: ‘Kate isn’t a fashion bunny.

'I don’t know why everyone in fashion is waiting to see what she wears. I’m like, thinking: Get over it.'