Yearly Archives: 2015

This Week’s Extras

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The Duchess of Rothesay (as Camilla is known in Scotland) in her smart red beret to commemorate the Battle of Loos (51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland)

The Prince of Wales attended a service at Westminster Abbey last Sunday commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain

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Princess Mako successfully completed her Master’s degree at the University of Leicester (The Crown Chronicles)

Ever wonder how to contact members of the British Royal Family? Here’s a how-to guide that includes mailing addresses (The Crown Chronicles)

New formal portraits of Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary were released (Danish Monarchy). The Swedish royals also released this wonderful family picture, taken last December.

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, and Princess Estelle

 Photo from Anna-Lena Ahlström via The Swedish Royal Court

Queen Sonja and Princess Beatrix Open Exhibit

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Queen Sonja of Norway and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands joined up to attend the opening of a new exhibit at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam (some of you may remember they also did this in Munich back in May). There appeared to be some behind the scenes fashion coordination as both women turned up in bumper hats in bright berry colours.

Queen Sonja and Princess Beatrix, September 23, 2015 | Royal Hats

Princess Beatrix wore dark raspberry bumper hat with domed crown and tightly upfolded double brim, trimmed with large straw bow loops at the back. It’s a hat shape we’ve seen on her a hundred times yet stands out thanks to the warm and vibrant hue. Queen Sonja’s mangenta domed hat, clearly made to coordinate with her paisley suit, follows a more compact bumper shape. The ensemble sets off her pearls wonderfully but the amount of coordinated pink paisley has tipped over the edge here for me.

Princess Beatrix, September 23, 2015 | Royal Hats  Queen Sonja, September 23, 2015 | Royal Hats

Designer of Princess Beatrix’s Hat: Suzanne Moulijn
Previously Worn: I can’t find previous wearings
Designer of Queen Sonja’s Hat: unknown
Previously Worn: March 20, 2012
It’s always fun to see royals from different houses join forces for shared events and look forward to hearing your thoughts about these two bumper hats!

Not Your Average Royal Hats

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Prince William and Prince Harry were in Manchester today to tour several homes being renovated for ex-service personnel as part of the BBC television series DIY SOS. The brothers donned personalized construction hats and mucked in to lend a hand, further proving what great sports they are.

Photos from Getty as indicated; Splash News and Splash News via Corbis

Queen Máxima Opens Visitor Centre and Museum

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Queen Máxima had a busy day of official openings today in Amsterdam at the new visitor centre of the Bank of the Netherlands and at the  Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder Museum, a museum detailing the history of a hidden attic church. For these events, she repeated her ‘slice’ brimmed picture hat in earthy taupe felt.

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We have seen this hat on Máxima several times before and it leans toward the bland and dull. Today’s pairing, however, with an elegant ice blue dress, casual pearls, taupe gloves and a snakeskin clutch, showed just how sophisticated this hat can be.

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Designer: Fabienne Delvigne
Previously Worn: February 12, 2014; November 7, 2008; February 28, 2007; November 2, 2005
Photos from Getty as indicated 

Designer Updates

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Royal Hats A few designer updates to kick off this week:

Crown Princess Victoria’s butterfly headpiece worn last week for the opening of Swedish Parliament was from Malinda Damgaard.

Princess VIctoria, September 15, 2015 in Malinda Damgaard | Royal Hats

Queen Máxima’s floral headpiece for Prinsjesdag last week is confirmed to be the work of Jan Taminiau, who also designed her exquisite gown.

Queen Máxima, September 15, 2015 in Jan Taminiau | Royal Hats

The hat worn by Princess Caroline of Hanover and Monaco back in May to the christening of her niece and nephew is a handmade, fair trade piece made of raffia by the Madagascar Hat Company.