Yearly Archives: 2014

Danish Visit to China: Day 5

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Queen Margethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark concluded their trip to China today with a busy schedule that included a Danish-Chinese Innovation and Investment Seminar, a Mayor’s lunch, a press conference and a sail down the Huangpu River. For this busy program, Queen Margrethe repeated her natural straw hat trimmed with a wide green band around the crown. After a fantastic run of hats this tour, I think this is a rather dull one to end with. I suppose it is, however, more exciting than Margrethe’s dress and jacket.

Queen Margrethe, April 28, 2014 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe, April 28, 2014 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: August 30, 2013; September 5, 2012

Photos from Keld Navntoft via BT.dk

Danish Visit to China: Day 4

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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark enjoyed a busy day of engagements in the Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces of China yesterday. For the first time so far this tour, Queen Margrethe wore a hat she had previously worn before- her turquoise blue porkpie hat with curved brim. It remains a great hat for her and I especially love the two-toned turquoise band around the crown. Queen Margrethe’s hats so far on this tour have been quite good, haven’t they? 

Queen Margrethe, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats

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Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: October 6, 2013; September 3, 2013; July 4, 2013; June 2, 2013; May 6, 2013; June 14, 2012; September 2, 2012; September 20, 2011; September 6, 2011; and May 23, 2011

Royals Attend Papal Canonisation

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Dignitaries, heads of state and European Royals were in attendance yesterday for the canonisations in which Popes John Paul II and John XXIII were declared saints. It was not surprising to see several Queens who have been granted the Privilège du Blanc (the special permission granted to Catholic queens, duchesses and princesses to wear white during an audience with the Pope) at this special event. Queen Sofia stood out in an intricately designed traditional lace mantilla and high peineta comb. With her floor length white lace gown, she looked very regal.

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Queen Paola topped her white coat with a long white lace veil (probably of Brussels lace).

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Queen Paola, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa topped her modern white suit with a short white lace veil.

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Princess Marie Aglaë of Liechtenstein, who has not been granted the Privilège du Blanc, wore a black coat and lace veil.

Princess Marie Aglaë, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats

Princess Marie Aglaë, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats

Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein and her daughter, Princess Maria Annunciata (back left, with iphone), were also in attendance. They sat with Princess Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, who wore a beautiful black lace veil.

Princess Maria Annunciata and Princess Margaretha, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats

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It is not often that we see these women in lace veils (outside their wedding day) and it looks like a lovely celebration was enjoyed at this mass.

Queen Sofia, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, Princess Marie, Queen Paola, April 27, 2014 | The Royal Hats Blog

Photos from Getty as indicated and Tageblatt

Danish Visit to China: Day 3

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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik of Denmark continued their tour of China Saturday with visits to Sino-Danish University Centre and travel  to Nanjing high-speed rail. For this busy day of events, Queen Margrethe unveiled another new hat. Made of navy wool, this hat carried a nautical vibe with its white braid trim around the brim and crown. The only thing that left me scratching my own head about this hat was the knotted mess on the side. Is it a nautical bow? Is it an anchor setting down under Margrethe’s brim? The odd embellishment aside, this high contrast hat worked well for Margrethe and her trademark red lipstick. What do you think of this nautical hat?

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Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: I believe this is a new hat. I suspect we’ll see this hat again in a few weeks during the Royal Couple’s annual summer cruise.

Photos from Keld Navntoft via BT.dk

Dutch Royal Family Celebrate Koningsdag

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As Queen Máxima’s hat for Koningsdag was a doughnut of disappointment,  us fans of royal millinery were forced to turn to other members of the Dutch Royal family for more palatable hats. Kicking off the other hats we saw today is our favourite former Queen, Princess Beatrix, who repeated her pale grey-lavender four-tiered brimless hat with side spray of feathers. While I’m not terribly keen on the dull colour and the concentric circles of this hat make me want to randomly exclaim, “Bull’s Eye!”, it is such a classic hat shape for Princess Beatrix that I’m not going to complain. It’s nice to see her back in the spotlight and clearly enjoying herself.

Princess Beatrix, April 26, 2014 in Suzanne Moulijn | The Royal Hats Blog

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Designer: Suzanne Moulijn
Previously Worn: January 22, 2013

My favourite look of the day was Princess Laurentien. She looked effortlessly chic in this cornflower blue fascinator which paired so well with her sublime outfit and fantastic haircut. This is the perfect event for a fascinator and this is how it should be done.

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Designer: Eudia
Previously Worn: I believe this fascinator is new

Princess Margriet also wore a fascinator in classic black and white. Classic colour, but not style, I’m afraid. This headpiece looked like a chicken was nesting in her hair. But as bad as that sounds, it was still an improvement over the doughnut. 

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Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: I believe this hat is new

This was not the best day in Dutch Royal millinery history, I’m afraid. Did you like any of the hats today? Hat bombs aside, it was evident that this family was having a joyfully marvelous time together and that is always wonderful to see.

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Photos from Getty as indicated and Patrick van Katwijk via Dutch Photo Press