It is somewhat shocking how few times members of the British royal family have attended the Met Gala. Princess Diana, despite her connection to fashion and culture, attended only once, in 1996, and her niece Princess Beatrice attended 22 years later, in 2018. That's it.

Six years ago, at her first (and so far only) Met, Beatrice wore purple, perhaps the color most associated with royalty; the 2018 Met was held on Monday, May 7, less than two weeks after her cousin Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding It took place on May 19; according to Newsweek, Beatrice was working in New York at the time. Tatler magazine called Beau's solo appearance at the MET "a welcome sight on the New York fashion circuit," and called her MET debut strikingly reminiscent of the "Tudors. For her MET debut, she wore a floor-length chiffon Alberta Ferretti gown that was strikingly reminiscent of the Tudors, the magazine noted.

"High necklines, embellishments, and Anne Boleyn-esque headpieces.

The gown featured puffy sleeves and embellishments along the neck "in reference to the Catholic-inspired theme of the evening," People reported. (The theme of the 2018 gala was "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.") Beatrice's gown was regal, Grecian, and, as People wrote, "relatively simple," especially compared to the other attendees of the evening, the media described. As accessories, she wore gold sandals and carried a black clutch bag.

If Metropolitan Museum of Art president Anna Wintour could see anyone ascending the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May, who would it be?In 2019, she told Today host Jenna Bush Hager that her dream Metropolitan Museum guests would be her respective husbands Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, minus their respective husbands, Prince William and Prince Harry, she said.

"I would love to invite the Duchess of Sussex and the Duchess of Cambridge (Kate's title at the time, now the Duchess of Wales) together," Winter said. 'They are my ideal couple. Leave the husbands at home. All I want is the two of them."