We often see hats with hatbands or brim bindings in a contrasting colour that give a punchy note of contrast but, dearest readers, can you think of royal hats with multiple stripes?
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Brilliant job uncovering all kinds of wonderful hats with stripes, everyone! Your memory for specific millinery continues to leave me gobsmacked!
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Oh good heavens! I’ve just remembered this one. The pinnacle of striped hats! The Adidas!
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Makes one wonder if she also has a “Nike” hat with a swoosh on it!
How could we have forgotten this one?!
Thanks for this post on stripes, HQ, as well as a recent post on knots!
I am a little weary of excessive floral trim these days. Liked most of the hats with stripes, and most of the hats with knots. Have decided that both stripes and knots can impart crisp elegance, if employed on the right hat and the right outfit, i.e., if you wear a hat with striped trim, that’s enough. Let the hat shine and don’t mover-stripe the whole outfit. HM’s purple hat in 1991 is a good example. Of course, the hat is dated, and didn’t exactly match the color of the coat, but it worked.
Over-stripe
Well said, Beth!
Thanks, Beth. I think we sometimes forget about the more creative trimmings we see on hats (there ARE so many hats with flowers!) and these posts are an interesting way to explore this.
Queen Mathilde
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Queen Maxima has a headpiece in the same striped silk abaca, also by Fabienne Delvigne (and in the very same shade!)
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Queen Beatrix
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Another handful of Princess Beatrix’s hats, worn when she was queen:
Queen’s Day 1986,1994 and 1995
1989 and 1999
Queen Mathilde
Princess Margaret
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She looks lovely. It’s cute how Lady Sarah often wears hats resembling this.
I always thought the diagonal placement of these dark grey stripes on Queen Sonja’s cloche was particularly interesting. Maybe not entirely successful, but interesting. Photo by Isifa/Getty Images
Same for this striped hat on Grand Duchess Maria Teresa. Perhaps not successful, but interesting.
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And for Maria Teresa’s sister-in-law, Countess Diane of Nassau
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Stripes for Jalila and stripes-adjacent for Haya:
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I’ve been waiting for another one of Haya’s hats to come up- I think this might be my favourite of all striped royal hats:
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Perfect.
Lovely!
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Princess Anne wearing the full ensemble that Matthew had mentioned previously…..the cape is really something, and certainly balances the hat and dress!
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Thanks for locating an embedable version of this photo, Mr. Fitzroy! One thing that interested me about it is that I’ve had the impression that most royal mothers wear something new to the christening, but if Anne was already wearing this outfit while pregnant, then to her first child’s christening, she wore something she already had hanging in the closet. Which based on discussions we’ve already had concerning’s Anne’s thrift where clothes are concerned, is right in character!
Matthew, I double checked on Getty and this was the photo caption:
“Princess Anne Pregnant With Zara — GREAT SOMERFORD, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 06: Princess Anne With Her Husband, Mark Phillips, Just Weeks Before The Arrival Of Their Daughter Attending The Wedding Of Her Sister-in-law.”
So it appears she wore the outfit for Peter’s christening — then repeated it for the wedding a few years later while expecting Zara….
Which would in fact play true to Anne’s thrift…..though if the outfit was also worn prior to Peter’s birth, that would indeed be very interesting.
Considering Anne’s re-wearing of her Charles/Diana wedding outfit only a few years ago, we could, conceivably, see this one trotted out of the vault again some day! I do wonder now whether the cape was original to the ensemble, or added later.
Thanks for this update, Mr. Fitzroy! It honestly never occurred to me to check the captioning of the Getty photo once you located it — sorry! I wonder if the sister-in-law mentioned was Mark Phillips’ sister Sarah Anne. Aside from her name and birth date, I couldn’t find any info about her, but she’s the right age to have gotten married around then.
Replying to myself, here’s a link to another photo of the same event from Alamy, with the information confirming the date and that it’s the wedding of Mark’s sister Sarah.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-royalty-princess-anne-great-somerford-wiltshire-107413720.html
Mr. Fitzroy and Matthew, apparently the ensemble was NOT new for Peter’s christening. Anne wore it earlier that year in Canada. Sorry, not the greatest photo.
June 12, 1977: Toronto, Canada
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That’s AMAZING Jimbo, your sleuthing knows no bounds!! Well done, and that certainly answers the question about whether the cape was original to the ensemble!
Being a bit late to the party, MrFitzroy assumed someone would have already snagged this rather unforgettable little number, worn in Fiji during the Silver Jubilee….
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A slightly better view…….
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I’ve been waiting for this one to come up!
I nearly posted it, but I wondered if zigzags might be a really niche post you were planning on soon!!
Here are a couple from Empress Michiko:
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And annoyingly these of Michiko could not be embedded:
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/japanese-emperor-akihito-and-empress-michiko-arrive-at-hue-news-photo/647750916
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/emperor-akihito-and-empress-michiko-wave-to-well-wishers-on-news-photo/494321894
And this one from then-Crown Princess Masako in 1994 (also could not be embedded): https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/crown-princess-masako-visits-masmak-fort-on-november-7-1994-news-photo/884844522
Great ones. The 1994 navy and green one on Masako looks like green stripes were glued onto the straw crown. Rather odd.
Here are tone-on-tone stripes on Crown Princess Kiko and Princess Akiko. Photos by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Imagesand Sankei News.
Princess Hisako in a unique hat with vertical stripes around the crown
Also in the red zone, this very notable Golden Jubilee titfer. Which seems to be giving us a wave in this picture!
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Blimey, I’ve gotten a bit too into this topic. I’ll stop, I promise.
Don’t stop! You’ve uncovered a treasure trove of hats (and the waving hat above is hilarious!). Here’s another view of this one:
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Just remembered this strangely unseasonal hat from Eugenie. This pic is hilarious, looks like they’ve had a falling out!!
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Queen Sylvia, Moscow 1978:
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Princess Grace, Monaco 1970:
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That is so chic it hurts!
She skipped the hat, but Crown Princess Victoria borrowed her mother’s dress to attend a seminar on antibiotic resistance during the World Water Week conference at Folkets hus on August 28, 2017 in Stockholm. I suspect that the bow at the neck is the former hatband.
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Great finds Mcncln — I wonder if these are both Dior…..Silvia wore a lot of Dior in the early years, and Grace was a major Dior disciple….Marc Bohan the designer at the time had a recurring affection for stripes.
The outfit at the link was a Dior worn by Olivia de Havilland and certainly has the same feeling, though cocktail attire.
https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/leslie-hindman/christian-dior-by-marc-bohan-haute-couture-dress-and-coat-autumn-winter-1967-1484016
Wow Mr F, those gold lame stripes on de Havilland’s Dior! that would NOT be an easy outfit to pull off, it has such a heavily upholstered appearance – but nevertheless, so impressive!
Great insight. Thanks, MrFitzroy!
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The only striped hat which I could find for Maxima (leaving aside the unusual “tropical coral” cap . Seems she just doesn’t do striped hats. Interesting, isn’t it? I didn’t search, but she probably doesn’t do dots and spots either. I can see that her hat style is more focussed than I realised.
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Lots of stripes in her clothes, I noticed, but you’re right, not so much in her hats.
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This navy hat has a lime/highlighter green twin, and there are a few other stripe/stripe-adjacent (at least material-wise) hats worn by Máxima in this slideshow:
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I’m loving all the 1980s stripes on Princess Diana! My grandmother was a true southern belle had a hat made just like this pink one with the double bow in the back for my cousin’s wedding in the mid 1990s. She was really upset that they didn’t get the pink stripes woven into the design like Diana’s and my mom and her sisters had to convince her to wear the hat without them!
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What a great story, Collins! Thanks for sharing it with us!
HatQueen, what hat type would we call this pink one of Diana’s? I always thought of it as a pillbox, but from the angle of the second photo, it appears that the crown comes to a point.
Princess Diana 1995
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1995 Ascot
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Pink and Purple stripe, Ascot 1990 (I can’t locate on Getty Images…sorry!) https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/358176976591786621/
In asking for hats with stripes, I was thinking more about hats like the one on Princess Hisako on the right below, with multiple stripes, not hats with just a contrasting hatband and brim binding.
Interesting variation in stripe width — I like it!
Princess Victoria in white fedora and navy/white striped band.
https://royalhats.net/2015/05/28/swedish-royals-visit-gotland/
Another subtle stripe, this time worn by Beatrix in The Netherlands in 2005.
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Some offerings from Beatrix. Photo 1 in Copenhagen in 2000; the pink hat in Chile in 2003; and the yellow also in Chile in 2003.
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Also from Chile in 2003.
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And to finish the ‘bumblebee’ hats, this one is from Slovakia in 2007.
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Brilliant! The ones with the striped crowns are certainly memorable (not necessarily in a good way!) but that grey boater with the black and ivory stripes is a classic that could easily be worn today. It’s so chic!
yes, the dark hat struck me as being something different and quite lovely for Beatrix. Her ‘cake’ style suits her but she’s pretty unvarying with it.
I am lost for words as to what this style of hat might be called so am calling on HQ’s expertise! Worn by Princess Anne in Germany in 1970.
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Surely that’s actually a rare sighting of a bonnet! (Imagine it tied under her chin and it could be Jane Austen!)
ooh yes, I was getting hung up on shower cap or Japanese lantern, but Austen bonnet is far better.
It’s almost a bonnet-tam hybrid. When I featured it here on the blog, I think I said it defies description…!
Then Crown Princess, Mathilde in 2004. I like how subtle this stripe is.
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Just squeaking in perhaps is this hat of Queen Sonja’s, worn in London in 2002.
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Hmm, in the close-up shot the stripe looks as though it’s underneath another, gauzy piece of trim …
Interesting how the ruched straw (looks like sinamay) hatband appears to have abstract stripes from some angles. Here’s another navy and cream striped ensemble on Queen Sonja. It works well with the classic straw boater hat, doesn’t it?
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Very stripy indeed!
The Queen and Eugenie at Epsom in 2011.
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A similar sort of stripe is this one, worn in London in 2015.
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Sophie at Ascot in 2015. Don’t know what she’s saying but Edward’s face is priceless!
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I think Sophie is telling Edward they just won a humongous amount of $$$ on a horse bet!
Fun photo! Here are some front views of the hat:
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Here’s another hat of cream crin stripes on Queen Sonja, in May 2018. Photo by Marit Hommedal / NTB scanpix
We don’t always include Imperial royal hats in these discussion posts- here’s a great green and burgundy hat on Princess Hisako
That is a striking hat! Love the entire ensemble.
This is a corker from HM back in the 70s.
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Prince Philip with a striped band on his panama straw trilby:
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And Máxima sporting non-uniform stripes on her calot:
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oops- queen noor looking tres chic in 1984
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hrh in India 1997
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maybe bit of a cheat with a striped ribbon
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That definitely counts! Infanta Elena also has several fedoras with striped hatbands
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And Queen Sonja has this twin:
does this count??
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Absolutely!
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another diana
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I see Princess Charlotte in her grandmother’s smile!
And I’ve never seen this one on Diana before, which is unusual. Stripes carrying on right to the top. Embed from Getty Images
And here she is giving red stripes a go. Can’t say it was a winner… https://capitalpictures.photoshelter.com/image/I0000aGIAHjLP7BI
These 1980s stripes were something! We have to include this whopper, worn to a Dec 19, 1992 society wedding and again for Christmas day, that same year.
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wow – dont remember this whopper! its a little too alice in wonderland for me though.
The 1980s had some… err… memorable striped millinery looks. This rolled, striped headbandy thing on Queen Anne-Marie for Prince Philippos’ christening in 1986 is another case in point.
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Another just a little bit striped from Diana:
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I can’t figure out the embed code, so here’s a link. But we all knew Fergie would be in on the act here, at Ascot 1989. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/englands-duchess-of-york-sarah-ferguson-wearing-striped-news-photo/50581826
It’s not available for embedding (not all Getty photos are) but it’s fantastic! I don’t recall seeing this hat before. Here’s another shot.
https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/royal-family-racing-royal-ascot-1989-ladies-day-photo-shows-duchess-of-york-with-viscount-linley-at-royal-ascot–1118757a
I just assumed I was being inept! It’s a good one isn’t it.
Here’s a colour shot: https://www.alamy.com/sarah-ferguson-duchess-of-york-and-viscount-linley-at-ascot-races-england-june-1989-image344392346.html
And then lo and behold, Bea goes and does it too, 20 odd years later! Embed from Getty Images
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Two from Princess Alexandra of Kent:
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Other older Kent family stripes:
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Barely visible, but there are stripes on Josephine-Charlotte’s hat:
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And some of my favorite stripes for Margrethe:
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October 21, 1986: Greenwich
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May 14, 1991
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well there’s the Kent amethyst (i do believe) with the amethyst dangles (for lack of a better description) that i have never seen! hmmm…
such a great color on Her Majesty. ❤
HM at Ascot, 1970
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Two for One: October 8, 1993; Lord Linley wedding
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I forgot about this pink hat with pleated brim- Rachel Trevor Morgan made her a similar one in yellow that she wore for Ascot in 2009
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April 8, 2007: Easter
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May 20, 1988
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This one is so hard! I have a recollection of the young Duchess of York in a Turquoise and black striped hat but I couldn’t find a picture of it anywhere so maybe it’s just my imagination!
Which Duchess of York? The Queen Mother or Sarah Ferguson?
This is probably not the one you’re thinking of, since it’s turquoise and tan rather than turquoise and black, but it is striped:
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Here’s a better view but good catch- I hadn’t noticed the close connection between these two before!
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This is the first hat that came to mind when I read the title of this post!
Possibly my favourite striped royal hat. From 1967 (before she had become engaged to Crown Prince Harald):
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That’s a lotta look! Very reminiscent of Princess Anne’s ensembles of this era.
In particular the hat (and outfit) worn at Peter’s christening:
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/g12026505/princess-anne-photos/?slide=30
and this appears to be a photo of the same ensemble worn outside under a cape:
https://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/royal-style/gallery/2020072994429/princess-anne-unexpected-style-icon-most-glamorous-outfits-over-the-years/9/
(couldn’t find either of these in embeddable format, but perhaps someone else can)
Apologies it has taken me all day to get to finding this hat for you Matthew- it’s a great one! Great catch on the repeat wearing.
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HatQueen, you should never feel you need to apologize for delays in doing something. The amount of time you must devote to this wonderful blog is unfathomable — I would certainly never feel negative about any delay!
You took the words right out of my mouth mittenmary! It’s actually quite funky.
Queen Sonja pulls that off beautifully. The pattern is smart enough to be wearable today. Funny to see the prim brooch and pearls with such a mod pattern and funky hat.
I can’t post photos, but the only one I found was Eugenie in a navy hat with large navy and white striped ribbon trim. Worn with a houndstooth checked dress, it looked very smart!
You’ve intrigued me with this description- can you post a link and I’ll see if I can post a photo?!
Found it! I think it’s a Stephen Jones design. Interestingly, her mum also wore this hat to Ascot in 2017
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Yes, that’s it, thank you!