74 years ago today, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor presented a polo trophy at a match held in Nassau, Bahamas, their home during the second world war. For this event, the Duke wore a straw boater hat while the stylish Duchess wore a calot hat with fluted brim framing her face. From this photo, it’s hard to imagine that Europe was in the throes of war (and that this couple had been at the center of one of the greatest royal scandals of the 20th century).
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Zara Phillips Tindall attended the Heythrop Hunt Point-to-Point races at Cocklebarrow Racecourse on Sunday with her daughter Mia and a friend. Zara and Mia were both bundled up in grey wool knit hats topped with large pompoms. It looks like an enjoyable outing was had by all and that little Mia Tindall, whose hat sported a large pink heart, is an enthusiastic hat wearer. She is darling, isn’t she?!
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King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz today with attendance at a memorial at Stockholm’s Grand Synagogue. Queen Silvia wore a simple black felt beret hat, placed at the back of her head in the style of a calot. King Carl Gustaf honoured the Jewish practice of wearing a kippah.
Designer: Kerstin Carlfealk
Previously Worn: This is a new hat
Photos from Scanpix via SMP.se and William Stokstad/TT via The Swedish Royal Court
Members of six royal houses gathered at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its liberation. Gathered together to remember the horrific history of this place, where more than one and a half million people lost their lives, were the King and Queen of Belgium, the King and Queen of the Netherlands, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg.
For the outdoor commemoration ceremony, Queen Mathilde wore a large black faux fur hat.
Queen Máxima repeated a black wool calot hat with wide, folded cuff around the perimeter of the hat. In a respectful and touching gesture, King Willem Alexander wore a traditional Jewish kippah.
Crown Princess Victoria and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stèphanie did not wear hats for this event. This commemoration, however, was not about hats or who attended. It was about taking time to remember a period of purest evil so that through this memory, humanity can keep it from becoming part of our future.
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.” – Anne Frank, 7th May 1944
I encourage you to watch the full commemoration ceremony below.
Photos from Getty as indicated and Patrick van Katwijk via Monarchy Press
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg are in Poland this week to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. Yesterday, the couple officially unveiled a Luxembourgish plaque to remember Holocaust victims who died at this site. The plaque reads: “This place shall forever be a cry of despair and warning to mankind. Here the Nazis murdered one and a half million men, women and children, most of them Jews, from different countries in Europe.”
To dedicate this tribute, Princess Stèphanie wore a simple brown felt hat. The upfolded brim of the oval hat featured a subtle wave shape that spread out into gentle points on each side of the hat.
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