Princess Margriet of the Netherlands celebrates her 71st birthday today (take a look back at her 70th birthday hat retrospective last year). Since here sister’s abdication last year, we have seen less of Princess Margriet than we have in the past – she has certainly earned retirement but fewer engagements inevitably means fewer hats. Margriet has worn hats of all shapes and sizes throughout her royal life. With her short hairstyle, however, I think she looks best in a small, embellished hat. Wouldn’t this beautiful “Black Watch” cocktail hat (the work of Vancouver milliner Kelly Dunlap who designs “The Saucy Milliner” label) be marvelous on Canadian-born Princess Margriet?
What kind of hat would you like to see Princess Margriet wear this year?
Photo of Keegan Connor Tracy by Brice Ferre provided by The Saucy Milliner
Princess Michael of Kent celebrates her 69th birthday today. Marie-Christine’s hat style, as we all know, tends toward the dramatic. While she occasionally wears an oversize pillbox, she is most often seen in a large picture hat trimmed with showstopping flowers, feathers or bows. I thought about recommending a different hat style for her but can’t imagine her truly suiting a tailored trilby or minimalist calot. I think Princess Michael simply suits a picture hat- the bigger and more dramatic, the better. The hat I have chosen for her is made by 
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