Our final month-end polls narrowing down our favourite new and repeated royal hats will combine the designs we saw worn in November and December. Over these two months, we saw a number of new pieces that stood out to you, dearest readers, based on your comments. It is these twelve designs that we will face off now, shown below in the order they were worn. Click on each picture or its caption below to jump back to original posts with additional photos and information on each hat. Here are your twelve finalists:

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Queen Máxima’s Fabienne Delvigne designed black straw upswpept ‘slice’ hat worn in New Zealand on Nov 7
Crown Princess Masako’s rolled brim white hat with royal blue bowed hantband worn in Gifu on Nov 10
Duchess of Cambridge in John Boyd’s black felt hat with velvet upswept brim worn for Remembrance Sunday

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Countess of Wessex’s velvet felt saucer hat with organdie ribbon trim by Jane Taylor worn Nov 13
Princess Charlene in Rachel Trevor Morgan’s black and white straw pyramid hat with red roses worn Nov 19
Queen Elizabeth’s purple hat with silk iris trim by Angela Kelly worn for the Duke of Edinburgh awards Nov 24 

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Queen Mathilde’s grey velvet felt picture hat by Fabienne Delvigne worn in Holland on Nov 28
Princess Eugenie’s wide brimmed purple velvet felt hat by Sarah Cant worn Nov 29 for a memorial service
Queen Mathilde’s angular red felt hat worn on the second day of the state visit to The Netherlands Nov 29

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Queen Mathilde’s blue velvet felt cocktail hat with multiple bows by Fabienne Delvigne worn Nov 30 in the Netherlands
Princess Eugenie’s red rounded percher with leaf and rose trim by Sarah Cant worn on Christmas Day
Autumn Phillips’ navy felt saucer with curling bow by Rachel Black worn on Christmas Day

Voting will remain open until next Sunday, January 15 at midnight GMT and each computer or mobile device can vote twice per day for as many hats as you wish. For added suspense, results will not be visible until the poll closes. Good luck!

Photos from Pool, The Asahi Shimbun, Max Mumby/Indigo, Max Mumby/Indigo, Theirry Orban, Mark Cuthbert, Patrick van Katwijk, Max Mumby/Indigo, Photonews, Patrick van Katwijk, Chris Radburn and Chris Jackson via Getty

Happy New Year! We’re going to start a catch-up of royal hat happenings over the past week with a look at the results from our last poll. It was no contest, dearest readers- we have two very clear favourites for top new and repeated royal hats worn in October:

Queen Silvia’s greige felt hat with black striped underbrim worn during a visit to Germany, Oct 5

Crown Princess Mary’s royal blue felt hat with feather trim by Susanne Juul worn for the Opening of Parliament, Oct 3

Jump over to the bottom of the original poll posts (new hats here and repeated hats here) to look at the results in greater detail or to the Fan Favourites page to see a collection of your favourite hats so far this year.

Photos from Sean Gallup and Ole Jensen/Corbis via Getty

While we did not see many new royal hats in October, we saw several spectacular repeats (many of which, curiously, were in similarly saturated shades of blue and purple).  Based on your comments, there were seven repeated millinery designs stood out to you in October as particularly impressive.

Click on any of the photos below to jump back to original posts with additional pictures and information on each design. Here are your seven finalists, in the order that the hats were worn:

While we didn’t see many new royal hats debut in October, there were a handful of great designs from which we can choose a favourite. Six new hats stood out in particular, shown below in the order they were worn. Click on each picture or its caption below to jump back to original posts with additional photos and information on each hat:

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Queen Máxima’s black fedora by Fabienne Delvigne worn to Utrecht’s  Aboriginal Art Museum on Oct 3
Queen Silvia’s greige felt hat with black striped underbrim worn during a visit to Germany, Oct 5

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Queen Mathilde’s autumn leaf trimmed casque by Fabienne Delvigne worn in Japan, Oct 11
Queen Mathilde’s red straw and silk percher hat by Fabienne Delvigne worn in Japan on Oct 13
Empress Michiko’s cream silk saucer with rose trim worn in Kyoto on Oct 25

Update- I completely forgot about this sixth hat which also received high praise:

Princess Eugenie’s blue braided pillbox hat designed by Juliette Botterill worn to commemorate the end of slavery, Oct 13

Voting will remain open until next Friday, December 23 at midnight GMT and each computer or mobile device can vote twice per day for as many hats as you wish. For added suspense, results will not be visible until the poll closes. Good luck!

Photos from via Albert Nieboer via PPE; Sean Gallup, Photonews and Photonews via Getty; The Asahi Shimbun

In preparing a new set of polls today, I realised that I completely forgot to share the results for favourite new and repeated royal hats worn in September. With my sincere apologies, here are the two runaway winners:

Duchess of Cambridge in a royal blue felt percher with silk maple leaf trim designed by
Silvia Fletcher for Lock & Co for her family’s arrival in Canada on September 24

Queen Maxima in a Fabienne Delvigne designed coffee coloured straw hat with signature
upswept ‘slice’ brim hat worn to present a sustainability award on September 14

Jump over to the bottom of the original poll posts (new hats here and repeated hats here) to look at the results in greater detail or to the Fan Favourites page to see a collection of your favourite hats so far this year.

Photos from Samir Hussein via Getty and Albert Nieboer/EPP via PPE