Jill Biden and granddaughter wear Ukrainian colors in solidarity at coronation
Jenny Goldsberry
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First Lady Jill Biden attended the King’s coronation Saturday alongside her granddaughter in Ukrainian colors.
Finnegan Biden, 23, was the first lady’s plus one in Westminster Abbey as President Joe Biden was not in attendance. The Biden’s second-oldest granddaughter wore a yellow Markarian dress complete with a cape while Jill Biden wore a blue top and skirt by Ralph Lauren, in apparent solidarity with Ukraine.
“We stand with Ukraine,” Biden tweeted the day before the coronation.
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This fashion statement comes the day after Biden was photographed with Kate, Princess of Wales, and Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelensky at Buckingham Palace alongside 100 heads of state and 20 royal families hosted by King Charles III. Kate tweeted the photo with the caption reading it was “lovely to see” both first ladies, along with an emoji of the Ukrainian flag.
The King himself was seen exchanging works with Zelensky. Biden would go on to sit next to Zelensky in Westminster Abbey the next day.
“I sat next to her today, and we were talking about the war, and she was saying how, really, the sirens are now just commonplace every day. It’s a big part of her life,” Biden said in a phone interview with CNN.
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Princess Kate previously hosted Zelensky on the eve of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral at Buckingham Palace in September. President Biden personally visited Ukraine in February.