British royal milliner Gina Foster is, sadly, closing up shop. If you hope to scoop up one of her designs, they are on sale and you might want to act quickly.
The “Royal Wedding Gowns” exhibition opened this week at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. This closeup view of these gowns includes a few surprises, such as the inclusion of the one-shouldered dress worn by Princess Sofia for her wedding reception (below). You can see a great gallery of this exhibition here (Svenskdam)
After living 54 years in exile, the last king of Rwanda died this week. His obituary is an interesting read (Telegraph)
Raine, Countess Spencer also passed away this week. There is a great photo spread of her glamorous life at this article in the Daily Mail.
Prince Albert of Monaco recently purchased his mother’s childhood home (People)
The Danish Royal Court released a charming new stamp
Royal Hats 
HMQ’s blue coat and the silk paisley dress underneath are favorites of mine (I managed to find the same paisley fabric). I believe she wore it first to greet the Irish President in the spring and next to Prince George’s christening in the fall of that year.
Most posts here on Royal Hats include links back to all of the previous wearings of each featured hat. The hat you mention, worn by the Queen this week on her visit to Poundbury was first worn in October 2013 for Prince George’s christening then repeated it in April 2014 for the Irish state visit. You can see a full list of each outing of this particular hat at the Poundbury post, under the last picture of the Queen.
Thank you Hat Queen for the interesting round up – but sorry – forget hats – what we need are furry shorts – now they look fun!
Thank you for all the interesting links. Great reading!
Although I have known of many of the incidents mentioned in the interesting obituary on Raine, Countess Spencer, I knew absolutely nothing about the last king of Rwanda. Such interesting articles! Thank you for pointing them out.