Keen royal watchers were quick to draw comparisons to a similar brown-and-tan Catherine Walker design worn over a decade ago by her mom, Kate Middleton, during her very first royal engagement. As with so much royal attire, the resemblance was hardly accidental.

Don and Catherine Rabb were in their first year of marriage when Fenwick’s restaurant came up for sale on Providence Road in Myers Park. They put in a bid and won, surprising even themselves. “Now what do we do?” Don Rabb recalled the couple asking.