Kate Middleton's Topshop shopping spree!

It's no secret that Kate Middleton loves a high street buy - every time she steps out in a Reiss frock or a Zara number, it becomes an instant sell-out - but yesterday the Duchess paid a visit to one of our favourite retail therapy stops: Topshop.

High street style: Duchess Kate paid a visit to her local Topshop. Above, wearing McQueen. Photo:PA

Kate popped in to the Topshop store in Kensington - just a stone's throw away from her London residence, Kensington Palace - to partake in a spot of low-key afternoon shopping

And no royal treatment for the Duchess of Cambridge: she browsed the rails, used the fitting rooms and queued at the till, JUST LIKE US.

Want to know what she bought? Of course you do.

There were no dramatic departures from style (she does, after all, have a royal reputation to uphold) - and her buys included a ladylike velvet-trim bouclé jacket, £65, a teal polka-dot pencil skirt, £38, and a pair of gold feather-motif earrings.

Kate snapped up this £65 velvet-trim jacket from her local Topshop. Photo courtesy of Topshop.

"She was low-key and casual," a Topshop staff member told People magazine. "She seemed so normal."

"She was really chilled out despite some customers in the queue behind her saying, 'Oh my God it's her' and pointing – she didn't seem fazed by it all and she was really sweet."

Kate's due to make a public appearance with William later today, to open the children's cancer centre at the Royal Marsden Hospital.