After launching yesterday’s poll for the least favourite royal hat last year, it is time to turn the tables around and decide on which one was your favourite. Please click on each of the following twelve photos to link back to the original post with larger photos and information about each hat. Your finalists for best royal hat of 2014 are, in random order:
1. Queen Máxima’s boysenberry upturned hat 2. Princess Haya’s black and white vertical hat
3. Crown Princess Mary’s purple pillbox
4. Duchess of Cornwall’s pale blue picture hat 5. Crown Princess Victoria’s retro rose headpiece
6. Queen Máxima’s black and white picture hat
7. Duchess of Cambridge’s grey percher hat 8. Queen Máxima’s natural straw slice hat
9. Queen Elizabeth’s white and royal blue hat
10. Countess of Wessex’s black hat with bows 11. Queen Máxima’s burgundy picture hat
12. Princess Haya’s white cocktail hat
Everyone is able to vote once every 24 hours- this daily vote enables you to vote for multiple hats at a time. The poll will remain open until next Friday, January 16 at midnight GMT and we will celebrate the results next weekend. Happy voting!
Please click on each photo to link back to the original post with additional information and photo sources
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3 of the five that I nominated are included in the list…that makes me 8 out of 10 from both lists! Thanks for the hard work HatQueen!
…but I do think it was unfair that some people nominated more than five hats in each category though. 😦
Agreed. Next year, it will be the first 5 nominations that are counted. We’ll get this down to a science yet!
I’ve just done my first vote. But OMG all those hats are beautiful!!
Who designed all of these hats? They are all really good!
Queen Máxima’s hats (1, 6, 8, 11) were all designed by Fabienne Delvigne
The Duchess of Cambridge and Countess of Wessex’s hats (7,10) were designed by Jane Taylor
Hats worn by Princess Haya, Crown Princess Victoria and the Duchess of Cambridge (2, 4, 5, 12) were designed by Philip Treacy
Queen Elizabeth’s hat (9) was designed by Angela Kelly
Crown Princess Mary’s hat designer has not been confirmed. I suspect it is Susanne Juul.
Surprised how the vote is going. I will say no more…wink.
LOVE Haya’s black and white! Now THAT is a hat!
I find it fascinating that the worst and the best belong to our dear Queen Max. Perhaps it’s because she’s the most adventurous fashion-wise in her hat choices (not to mention jewelry -that necklace that doubles as body armour!)