Ascot 2023 Day 5: The King & Queen

The final day of Royal Ascot saw the king and queen in the first royal carriage, rounding out their attendance at all five days of this year’s racing week.

 

King Charles repeated his black antique silk top hat.

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Queen Camilla repeated a cream straw picture hat with off-center, peaked crown and gently side sweeping brim. The hat is trimmed with triple stacked silk hatbands and a goose biot feather starburst on the side.

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What sets this cream hat apart from numerous others in Camilla’s wardrobe is the spectacular feather starburst, which makes a wonderful, textural statement. The streamlined boat neck of Camilla’s dress pairs well with this piece and the ensemble’s styling, with chunkier gold jewelry than she usually wears, was on point.

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Designer: Philip Treacy. Dress by Anna Valentine. 
Previously Worn: May 15, 2019;  June 5, 2018July 1, 2017June 20, 2017

Thoughts about Queen Camilla’s hats this year at Royal Ascot?

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8 thoughts on “Ascot 2023 Day 5: The King & Queen

  1. Camilla’s hat today is her best of the whole week. She certainly played it safe, though, wearing FOUR cream/off white hats, and a pale minty colored hat – I was hoping for more color for your new queen.
    Assuming the king wore the same grey suit all week, and judging by the trousers’ wrinkled appearance today, a trip to the dry cleaners would be in order. Ha ha.

  2. King Charles was very smart and understated in this silver, grey look with his black top hat. He looked splendid standing next to Lady Frederick.
    The Queen Consort’s cream hat is really lovely and the starburst detail makes it stand out.
    I agree this hat looks better worn with some colour.

    • Agree with everything – the hat definitely looks better with the off-white dress, rather than the blue

  3. A final photo to sum up my thoughts on Camilla’s hat for Day 5:
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    Ehh, another all-white ensemble. What’s worse is she’s previously worn this hat with a lovely blue outfit. Ah, well she did choose a white hat with fun trim and interesting gold jewelry; not to mention we got 5 days of hats from Camilla at Ascot, so I will smile for this abundance!

    P.S. this is the blue outfit I’m referring to:
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