This is it.
Throughout the past year, we have narrowed down our favourite royal hats through a series of monthly polls. It is now time to choose our winners of the year. First up is the race for favourite repeated design.
As in all previous polls, click on any of the photos below to jump back to original posts with additional pictures and information on each design. Please note that while several of these hats were worn more than once last year, they are only shown below in the outing that won one of the monthly semifinal polls.
Here are the thirteen finalists, all picked by you, dearest readers, for Best Repeated Royal Hat of 2016:
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Queen Máxima’s black wide-brimmed Garbo hat by Fabienne Delvigne worn January 6
Queen Máxima on February 16 in an upswept grey ‘slice’ hat by Fabienne Delvigne
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Queen Elizabeth’s pale blue triangular beret with white feather by Angela Kelly worn March 17
Queen Máxima’s Fabienne Delvigne designed pink straw upswept ‘slice’ picture hat worn April 13
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The Countess of Wessex’s cream crin hat with organdie curls & feathers by Jane Taylor worn May 10
Duchess of Cornwall’s blue Philip Treacy picture hat with flying bow tails worn on June 10
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Crown Princess Mary cream straw fluted brim hat with pink flower by Susanne Juul worn June 13
Duchess of Cambridge’s black lattice brimmed hat by Silvia Fletcher for Lock & Co worn July 1
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Crown Princess Mary’s gold straw vertical saucer with flower & feathers by Jane Taylor worn June 15
Queen Máxima in a Fabienne Delvigne coffee straw hat with upswept ‘slice’ brim worn Sept 14
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Crown Princess Mary’s royal blue felt hat with feather trim by Susanne Juul worn Oct 3
Countess of Wessex’s navy straw percher with feather trim by Jane Taylor worn Nov 24
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Duchess of Cornwall’s black felt hat with upswept brim by Philip Treacy worn Nov 13 and on Dec 25
Voting will remain open until Tuesday, January 31 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. As this is a tight race, I encourage you to refer back to the original posts to look at each hat’s detail.
Photos from Michel Porro via Getty; Patrick van Katwijk/dpa/Corbis; Samir Hussein, Andreas Rentz, WPA Pool, Ben Stanstall and Danny Martindale via Getty; Jens Astrup/Scanpix via The Danish Monarchy; Stephane Cardinale and Danny Martindale via Getty; Albert Nieboer/EPP via PPE; Ole Jensen/Corbis, Justin Tallis, Karwai Tang and Chris Jackson via Getty
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As per HQ’s comments on the New Hat poll – you can vote for more than one in one go, simply check all the boxes of all the hats you’d like to endorse. No limit on how many you can vote for at once! The information is just above the voting form.
Can’t possibly pick! all are fabulous!
So hard to choose!!! I’m glad we can vote for more than 1!
These are all so fabulous, love each and every one. Máxima’s slice hats are so very beautiful. I’m a sucker for flowers under the brim so I thought #9 was terrific. But in the end I voted for #8 – so unique and lovely. Thanks for posting this retrospective of last year.
This is so exciting. I love seeing these splendid hats all on one page like this. Every one of these hats is a winner. It is almost impossible to narrow it down to one but I have. However, I wonder how many like me will be tempted to vote several times for different hats. Thank you HQ.