to the early 1980s and this blue cloche with darling butterfly trim. While we see LOTS of feathers and flowers trimming royal millinery, there are surprisingly few butterflies.
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Sophie Wessex at Ascot, 2003.
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Here’s Princess Anne in 1970 wearing a butterfly-trimmed hat in Australia:
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I’m not sure there’s actually a butterfly here, but in news reports from today (22 September 2019), when this hat was worn for its third time, I believe, it is stated that there are black butterflies on this hat.
Perhaps someone has a better picture.
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Fairbanks, this looks more like a flower of some sort, not a butterfly. Here is its first appearance for your consideration.
September 9, 2018: Crathie Church (a Scottish hat, only worn there?)
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Thanks for the better picture. I couldn’t spot butterflies, but someone named Bridie Pearson-Jones from mailonline refers to the “delicate black butterflies on [Queen Elizabeth’s] hat – which contrasted the bright blue of her suit.”
I do like the hat, though, beautiful color; since she’s always to wear black shoes and purse, she might as well have black in the outfit too.
In Hat Queen’s first description, she mentions leaves and a dahlia bloom, and she is the authority on all things millinery!
Here’s the whole suit from its 2nd outing. (Buckingham Palace this time, so the ensemble must be a traveling outfit!)
October 24, 2018
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We recently saw a butterfly headpiece on Princess Caroline from 1977, and there was another one from Scandanavia, I think . . .
This one is a little more subtle than her granddaughter’s (Phillips wedding, 2008):
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my Hall of Fame hat!
The photo of today’s hat was actually taken in October of 1977 during a tour of Canada. Queen Elizabeth looks wonderful in this blue color.
She wore it again in Hyde Park to “the Greatest Children’s Party,” accompanied by a scary clown. The video should give some amusement today.
May 30, 1979: Hyde Park
That’s pretty funny, Jimbo! HM carries on with her usual aplomb.
I love this too! Much more restrained than the bouquets that adorn some of HM’s hats nowadays. Very pretty.
I agree! A good hat: fine shape, neat and sharp, the butterflies just adding a feminine touch.
Lovely hat. Is this the first time Her Majesty has worn a butterfly adornment?
Shanon, funny that you should ask. Not only her hat, but a dress as well!
March 18, 2006: Singapore
June 12, 2006: Buckingham Palace Garden Party
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HM has a butterfly brooch made of diamonds and rubies, which is not worn often. It was a wedding gift from the Dowager Countess of Onslow. (boy, does that name conjure up humorous images from about 25 years ago!)
July 22, 2008: Buckingham Palace Garden Party
August 25, 2019: Crathie Kirk (just 4 Sundays ago)
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Thanks Jimbo! I knew you would come through for me! What would we do without you? 🙂