Royal watchers are seeing red over this purported breach of protocol.
Princess Kate was spotted sporting crimson-colored nail polish as she stepped out for a church service on Easter Sunday.
The 41-year-old attended the religious gathering alongside husband Prince William, 40, and their three children, George, 9, Charlotte, 7, and Prince Louis, 4, where she looked picture perfect in a royal blue ensemble.
But the beauty’s contrasting red-tipped fingers perturbed many royalists, as it’s been widely reported that the late Queen Elizabeth II disapproved of bright nail polish.
According to multiple outlets, the queen stuck to one light pink color made by Essie, named “Ballet Slippers,” and expected other royal women to do the same.
Some on social media claimed Middleton didn’t exactly nail it, with one writing: “Too bad the whole [royal family] photo op is ruined by Kate’s brazen red nail polish. It’s not protocol and Kate Middleton has shamed the entire family. Shocking.”
Another raged: “Meghan [Markle] was slaughtered for ‘breaking protocol’ just for wearing a nail polish that wasn’t pink. Now here is Kate Middleton wearing red nail polish, willl we be told of how bold and daring this is?”
However, others praised the princess for the bold move.
“Kate Middleton wearing red nail polish. Accompanying the new times, modernizing and innovating, is important and the nobility will not become less noble, but more inserted in the transformations,” one cheered.
Historian Marlene Koenig has previously told Town & Country that there are no official rules regarding what kind of varnish the royals can wear, meaning Middleton may not have broken protocol at all.
The Post has reached out to the royal family’s reps for further comment.
Princess Kate, Prince William and their children attended the Easter Sunday service alongside King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla.
The family outing comes less than a month before Charles’ coronation ceremony is set to take place.
The event is slated for Saturday, May 6, at Westminster Abbey. It will mark the official transfer of title and powers to The King, according to The BBC, following Queen Elizabeth’s death at the age of 96 in September.
It’s still unclear whether or not Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, will be appearing at the coronation, but a source told Page Six last week that the plans are being “finalized.”
Harry and Markle’s relationship with the royals is at rock bottom following the release of Harry’s memoir, “Spare” and the couple’s Netflix docuseries, “Harry & Meghan.”
Shortly after “Spare’s” release, an insider told The Evening Standard that Charles, had “no appetite to engage” with Harry/
Just last week, it was reported , it was revealed that Harry was allegedly “infuriated” that his father wouldn’t put Markle on the royal payroll, which is written about in royal correspondent Robert Jobson’s new book, “Our King.”