Author Archives: Royal Hats

Catching Up with the Swedish Royals

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Last Monday, the Swedish royal family celebrated their country’s national holiday. Queen Silvia wore a new hat for the occasion, an ivory silk covered calot trimmed in pearls. The hat is trimmed with a bow around the back.

Designer: unconfirmed
Previously Worn: This hat is new

Later in the day, Queen Silvia joined her daughter and daughter-in-law in folk costume with traditional white cotton folded hats.

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We don’t usually cover tiaras here but on Tuesday in the Netherlands, Crown Princess Victoria attended the Swedish Chamber of Commerce gala which celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands. For this event, she wore her modern Nocturnal Creatures Tiara by Maria Nilsdotter with a green H&M gown. I thought the pairing of these two pieces was inspired.

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Dutch Queen Opens Bosshardthuis

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Queen Máxima opened the Majoor Bosshardthuis (Major Bosshardt House of the Salvation Army) in Amsterdam yesterday. Major Alida Bosshardt was well-known for a life of dedicated service to vulnerable members of society.

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For this visit, Queen Máxima repeated a headpiece of silk flowers in beige-pink and a darker, duskier rose hue studded with beige net veil.

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I’ve never entirely embraced the pairing of this headpiece and coral lace dress and the inclusion of coral flower earrings and pearl trimmed necklace take to well into ‘too much’ territory for me. The dress is beautiful, the jewellery is fun and the headpiece has good potential… but not all together.

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Designer: unknown. Dress by Elie Saab. 
Previously Worn: Oct 11, 2017; Feb 4, 2017

If you were Queen Máxima’s stylist, what would you suggest as a great pairing for this headpiece?

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Belgian Queen Awards Music Prize

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Queen Mathilde presided over the award ceremony for the laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cello 2022, at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo yesterday. For this event, she repeated her royal blue ruched straw brimless toque hat.

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It’s such a great working royal hat, its vibrant colour standing out just enough and its draped design giving interest and movement, all with a small scale that doesn’t feel awkward at an event where no one else is wearing a hat! It’s pairing here with Mathilde’s blue and white Ikat printed dress works so well.

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Designer: Fabienne Delvigne. Dress by Natan. 
Previously Worn: Apr 30, 2022; June 28, 2018; July 3, 2016;  May 20, 2015

Classic, crisp blue and white is among my favourite colour combinations so this look is right up my alley. What do you think of Queen Mathilde’s ensemble yesterday?  See all the other ensembles she has worn with this hat over at this post. 

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Danish Summer Cruise and a Long Awaited Wedding

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Queen Margrethe continued the first week of her annual summer cruise last week. On Thursday, she repeated a beige hat with flat topped crown and kettle brim for a visit to Anholt.

Designer:  likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: Jun 14, 2017; May 30, 2016; Aug 31, 2015; Sep 10, 2013; Sep 4, 2013; Sep 6, 2012; Jun 8, 2012 

On Friday, she began a two-day visit to Aarhus in her pink beret with with side twist trim

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Designer: Mathilde Førster
Previously Worn: May 21, 2022; Aug 29, 2021;  May 15, 2021

For the second day of her visit to Aarhus on Saturday, Queen Margrethe repeated her red wide brimmed boater hat. In a fun twist, she changed her checked jacket during the events of the day for an entirely different look!

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: May 4, 2022; Mar 22, 2019

Yesterday, the Danish queen repeated her new vibrant blue beret with feather trim for at a celebration service for the inauguration of Aalborg’s new bishop

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: Apr 30, 2022

Over the weekend, Princess Benedikte’s son, Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg was married to his longtime partner, Carina Axelsson. The couple celebrated a civil ceremony on Friday and a private religious ceremony on Saturday.

For the religious ceremony, Carina wore a lovely silk gown with lace coat by Birgit Hallsten. She topped the look with the Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg Diamond Spike Tiara you can read more about here and an intricately patterned veil you can see below.


We wish the couple sincere congratulations.

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This Week’s Extras

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On May 15, Princess Akiko of Mikasa attended the scaled down Aoi Matsuri at Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto in a simple white brimmed hat with ecru ruched hatband.

Last weekend, Crown Princess Kiko wore a black silk hat with mushroom brim for a memorial event. Princess Nobuko wore a bumper hat covered in beige lace with silk pleated trim for an event at Fujita Health University.

The following new millinery designs caught my eye this week (see the comments for more):


Princess Yuriko celebrated her 99th birthday over the weekend!

And there’s always time for one more view of this absolute gem.

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