Princess Beatrix attended the Royal Military Police’s annual ‘Wapgendag’ (Weapon’s Day) at at Palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn yesterday. For this event, which coincided with the Police’s 200th anniversary, she repeated a navy straw hat with flat crown and brim, trimmed with straw and fabric bands around the crown and a mass of navy and white fabric petals on the side. I suspect the fabric petals are meant to soften the right angles of this hat (angles that attractively compliment the shape of Beatrix’s face and hairstyle) but they don’t show well in my opinion. What do you think of this navy hat?
Designer: unconfirmed. I suspect Emmy Hill
Previously Worn: January 9, 2012; November 4, 2011
Photos from Patrick van Katwijk, Albert Ph. Van Der Werf, and Patrick van Katwijk via Corbis
Royal Hats 
The hat pin in her hat beside the fabric flower tricked my eyes into thinking that she had a little fabric bird on her hat! (Note to self…make eye appointment) I think Princess Beatrix looks lovely in this hat.
In the first picture…not in the other two. LOL 😉
I like this hat very much but I think the fabric petals could be replaced with something else. They are a trifle floppy. I think a rosette of the same navy straw would work fine.
I notice that straw hats are still being worn well into Autumn. Must be that climate change!
I like the color and the shape of the hat very much, but don’t like the floppy flower.
MrFitzroy’s bifocals, combined with a computer screen, and an unfortunate angle of view, can make for some interesting misreads. As was first glance at the above headline:
“Princess Beatrix Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Royal Milinery Police”
First thought — We havent been around THAT long….
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing that little gem.
Thanks for sharing that thought MrFitzroyOBE, and there ought to be a Royal Milinery Police, because there sure are some crimes of fashion happening.
She is definitely from the “old school”, very proper but still stylish. She never disappoints.
Looks great on her – many this looks too much like a Spanish cowboy hat – but it doesn’t come off that way on her here –
She never makes a mistake.
The third picture, top view, looks as though this hat either was not made well or was crushed a little at its bottom left.
Although the hat appears wider and not so tall as Angela Kelly’s flat brim, flat crown hats for Queen Elizabeth, it looks dangerously similar. I like it.
I like the shape of the hat, but the decorations look best from the back. I love the effort she puts in to her appearances. Hair, makeup, jewelry etc. She is a delight.
You speak for me too jamiemid.
I love how you teach about Hats and As you do you cover the event which tells us the protocol in which to wear hats Thank you