June is always the busiest month of the year for royal hats and this year was no exception. Between foreign visits, weddings, the Order of the Garter service and regular royal engagements, last month we saw a LOT of hats! Fourteen repeated millinery designs stood out to you as particularly impressive, based on your comments, and it is these fourteen that we now face off to pick a single winner that will move on to our year-end contest for best repeated royal hat this year.
Click on any of the photos below to jump back to original posts with additional pictures and information on each design. Here are your favourite repeated royal hats worn in June (excluding those worn at Ascot and Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday celebrations which saw their own polls), in the order they were worn:
Princess Michael’s black straw fascintor with veil by Philip Treacy worn on June 1
Queen Elizabeth’s blue Rachel Trevor Morgan hat with black & white feather flowers on June 2
Queen Maxima’s coffee coloured picture hat with slice brim by Fabienne Delvigne worn June 2
Queen Elizabeth’s Rachel Trevor Morgan turquoise straw hat with grey flowers & feathers on June 6
Princess Anne’s ruched blue straw hat with rose trim worn June 9 at the Founder’s Day Parade
Queen Maxima’s Fabienne Delvigne designed dusky pink straw hat worn in Friesland June 13
Duchess of Cambridge’s flowered red felt hat by Silvia Fletcher for Lock & Co. on June 13
Crown Princess Mary’s cream straw picture hat with fluted brim by Susanne Juul on June 13
Queen Maxima’s gold straw hat with raised ‘slice’ brim by Fabienne Delvigne worn on June 18
Grand Duchess Maria Teresa’s Philip Treacy black ‘slice’ brim hat with straw twists on June 18
Queen Elizabeth’s pink Rachel Trevor Morgan designed hat with silk peony worn on June 22
Princess Anne’s purple silk and straw hat with calla lilies worn on June 25
Queen Elizabeth’s mint green straw hat by Rachel Trevor Morgan worn on June 27
Princess Beatrix’s lilac straw picture hat with flat crown and brim worn in Slovakia on June 30
Voting will remain open until August 8th at midnight GMT and each computer or mobile device can vote twice per day for as many hats as you wish. To avoid unnecessary influence, results will remain hidden until the poll closes. With immense diversity in the colour, scale and style of the hats here, choosing your favourite(s) may be a challenge. Good luck!
Photos from David M Benett, AFP/Chris Jackson via Getty; Rex Features; Mark Cuthbert, Max Mumby/Indigo, Michel Porro and Matt Dunham via Getty; Jens Astrup/Scanpix via The Danish Monarchy; EPP/News Pictures; Valentin Dupont, author of Royalement Blog; Mark Cuthbert via Getty; Rachel Adams via the Southern Daily Echo; Carrie Davenport and Samuel Kubani via Getty
The three Queen Maxima hats are my favourites here.
All those beautiful Rachel Trevor Morgan hats on the Queen threw me into a feedback loop. I fought my way out of it by choosing something else altogether. I threw Princess Anne some love for one thing. She deserves some support.
I’d vote for #13 if it hadn’t lost most of of its trimmings. I think its feathers must have molted.