around 100 years to King George V and his most royal of gardening hats.
Brilliant share this week by the Royal Collection Trust!
Royal Hats
The Bold, Beautiful and Bizarre World of Royal Millinery
around 100 years to King George V and his most royal of gardening hats.
Brilliant share this week by the Royal Collection Trust!
Royal Hats 
We’ve had so many interesting posts this week that I almost missed this one. Priceless! How often do we see a monarch doing his own yard work?
Very elegant, though the mower appears to have been intended for a shorter gardener.
Would that be Queen Mary supervising? Rather a nice hat, if not the clearest photo of it.
That’s my guess. It’s certainly one of her go-to hat shapes.
My immediate thought was that it was Queen Alexandra, not Queen Mary.
I love it! I usually wear grubby clothes and a ball cap when mowing the lawn, but this is so much classier.
Is he pushing a lawn mower? It looks like he and Mary are on their way to Ascot right after the lawn is mowed, of course!
Makes sense. Why waste time changing clothes an extra time?
Yes, it’s a lawn mower!
Now that’s class! This wonderful photo reminds me of Oliver Douglas (Eddie Albert) who plowed the field and did all the “chores” in his Sunday best on the corniest TV show ever produced, “Green Acres.” How many of us can still sing the theme song?
HQ, I hope you don’t mind this aside: Today is International Firefighters Day. Check out these cheeky monkeys!
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Who is the boy at the wheel? Anyone know?
Peter Phillips.
Ah yes, good ol’ Oliver Wendell Douglas on a tractor wearing 3-piece suits!
And how about Richard, who should have one pair of gloves for gardening and one pair for waving?
(Apologies for getting off track as well! At least Hyacinth was known for her hats haha . . .)
Richard IS wearing a hat in that clip 🤣
Fun tangents are welcome, especially as I’m the one who sent us down this garden path…
Hat Queen, speaking of tangents, wouldn’t it be fun to have post on some quiet Royally hatless day, the topic being that of Royals doing ordinary, mundane things, like King George V mowing the lawn? The stipulations would be:
1. the Royal must be wearing a hat, and
2. the post must remain fun but respectful.
Just a thought.
Stay tuned….
Haha!