As we catch up determining our favourite royal hats worn this year, we’re going to jump back again to September to choose our favourite new design. There were six millinery designs that stood out to you in particular, based on your comments, and it is these six designs that we place side by side in comparison now.

Click on each picture below to jump back to original posts with additional photos and information on each hat. Here are your six finalists for September, in the order they were worn:

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Queen Silvia’s purple flower covered calot worn for her grandson’s christening on September 9
The pearl headpiece worn by Princess Sofia on Sep 9 for Prince Alexander’s christening
Princess Hanako’s pale pink hat with square crown and lace brim worn September 8

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Princess Sofia’s white camellia headpiece worn for the Opening of Parliament Sep 13
Princess Laurentien’s gun metal grey percher hat with crin trim by Eudia worn Sep 20 for Prinsjesdag 
Duchess of Cambridge’s blue felt percher Lock & Co. design with  maple leaf trim worn in Canada on Sep 24

Voting will remain open until Sunday, November 27 at midnight GMT and each computer or mobile device can vote once every 12 hours for as many hats as you wish. For added suspense, results will not be visible until the poll closes. Happy voting!

Photos from Olle Sporrong via IBL; Anders Wiklund/TT; FNN News; Stella Pictures; Mark Cuthbert and Karwai Tang via Getty

With a busy royal programme of parliament openings, state visits and domestic engagements this fall, I have neglected to keep up with our countdown of favourite hats this year. With my apologies, dearest readers, this needs to be rectified! We’re going to start this catch up with a jump back to choose our favourite hats worn in September. Based on your comments, there were five repeated royal millinery designs that were met with particularly high praise.

Click on any of the photos below to jump back to original posts with additional photos and information on each hat. Here are the five finalists, in the order they were worn:

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Crown Princess Mary’s natural straw beret with bow trim by Susanne Juul worn for Flag Day, Sep 5
Queen Margrethe’s red straw hat worn in Favrskov on Sep 7 during her annual summer cruise
Queen Maxima’s Fabienne Delvigne designed coffee coloured straw upswept brim ‘slice’ hat worn Sep 14

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Queen Máxima’s larger and lighter natural straw upswept brim ‘slice’ hat by Fabienne Delvigne for Prinsjesdag Sep 20
Empress Michiko’s blue and gold saucer hat worn Sep 28 on a  visit to Iwate Prefecture

Voting will remain open until next Sunday, November 27 at midnight GMT and each computer or mobile device may vote once per day for as many hats as you like. Results will remain hidden until the poll closes. Happy voting!

Photos from IBL; Ole Jensen via Getty; Albert Nieboer/EPP via PPE; Mark Cuthbert via Getty and Asahi

Interestingly, the polls for favourite new and repeated royal hats worn during the combined months of July and August were much closer than in previous months.  Never fear, however, as two clear winners emerged:

Princess Anne in a pale aqua saucer hat with leaf applique worn on July to
commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel

Duchess of Cambridge in a black straw design Silvia Fletcher for Lock & Co with lattice brim
worn for the Battle of The Somme Centenary on July 1

This is the first month where winners of both polls were hats worn on the same day. 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 Pool/Sam Hussein via Getty; CBC; VOCM;

While the overall number of royal hatted events slowed down considerably over the summer, the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and a number of foreign visits saw numerous occasions which included hats. Based on your comments, nine repeated millinery designs stood out to you in July and August as particularly impressive – it is these designs that we now face off to pick a single winner that will move on to our year-end contest for best repeated royal hat of 2016.

Click on any of the photos below to jump back to original posts with additional pictures and information on each design. Here are your favourite repeated royal hats (and headpiece!) worn in July and August, in the order they were worn:

It’s no secret, dearest readers, that we see fewer royal hats over the summer months than we do at any other time of year. And when there are less royal hats, there are even fewer new royal hats! As such, our next monthly poll to decide favourite designs will combine the hats we saw in July and August but don’t worry- thanks to WWI commemorations, a major national day, a car rally and some Imperial visits, there are numerous designs to review.

Seven new hats worn over the summer stood out in particular, based on your comments, and now it’s time to chose your single favourite. These seven finalists are 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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Duchess of Cambridge in a black felt pillbox with bow at the back worn in France on June 30
Princess Anne’s pale blue saucer with bow and straw leaf detail worn in Canada on July 1 

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Queen Silvia’s red straw calot with straw twist by Philip Treacy worn in Germany July 12
Queen Mathilde’s blush pink headpiece by Fabienne Delvigne worn for National Day, July 21
Princess Mako’s navy straw hat with rolled brim worn in Hiroshima on July 29

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Princess Hisako’s sleek white hat worn in Hiroshima on August 10
Queen Silvia’s multi coloured diamond print hat worn for the annual King’s Rally on August 27

Voting will remain open until next Friday, Septmeber 30 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 UK Press via Getty; CBC; VOCM; IBL; EPA; Asahi; Sankei; and IBL