The Duchess of Cambridge, Queen Mathilde and Queen Letizia: Gallery of the week's best royal style

As Christmas approaches, Europe's royal have begun to wind down for the festive break. On Thursday the Queen arrived in Norfolk for her annual Christmas holiday at Sandringham.

Britain's monarch sported a flecked green coat and a patterned headscarf as she walked along the platform at King's Lynn railway station, a broad smile on her face.

Elsewhere Queen Mathilde of Belgium wowed in a striking halterneck dress as she stepped out with King Philippe and her four children for the Christmas Concert at the Royal Palace in Brussels and Spain's Queen Letizia opted for a chic white number and a black roundnecked coat when she hosted a lunch for Senegalese President Macky Sall.

Left to right: The Duchess of Cambridge, Queen Mathilde of the Belgians, Queen Letizia of Spain, Queen Elizabeth II