to this day, 38 years ago today, when Queen Elizabeth re opened the John Power Hall in St James’s Square in this tasseled tam ‘o shanter with contrast stitching and itty-bitty cap brim.
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Royal Hats 
I found two other earlier outings for your “enjoyment.” For some reason, I wasn’t expecting yellow as the color. I assumed a white hat with red stitching, since it reminds me of a baseball!
October 15, 1977; Parliament Hill – Ottawa, Canada (photo is reversed)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/list-of-royal-visits-to-canada-over-two-centuries-1.526334
November 9, 1978; Catterick Garrison
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-queen-meeting-troops-at-catterick-garrison-9th-november-news-photo/886726732
Here’s a slightly better photo from Canada.
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I like the hat better, now I see it in colour – and the dress is much improved by being largely hidden!
Thank you, Jimbo!
Wow Jimbo. So that dress was brown, yellow and cream – and the hat’s stitching and tassel are brown. Such a nineteen-sixties colour scheme, as Elizabeth Davies notes in the comments.
HM’s handbag is brown too, so I bet her shoes were brown as well. A rare occurrence, I’m guessing. I’ll have to keep my eyes open for any other instances of HM wearing brown accessories!
I agree. Looks like HM was catching up on the 1960’s, not 1980.
How I agree with you, Lindy! That hat is an utter mess and it wasn’t even fashionable at the time.
Oh, dear!! This hat is very unfortunate, to say the least………..how could anyone let HM go out wearing this?? Maybe it looked better in real life………..