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The Coronation: Royal Guests

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As we have come to expect at such landmark royal events, royal guests at King Charles III’s coronation represented nations from around the globe. Those who wore hats to this event were as follows:

The Sultan of Brunei and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

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King Mswati III and Inkhosikati LaMbikiza of Eswatini: Inkhosikati LaMbikiza wore a dusty pink crin halo headpiece trimmed with feathers in the same colour (see a better photo here)

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King Letsie III and Queen Mesenate of Lesotho: Queen Masenate wore a royal blue straw saucer hat trimmed with a dramatic starburst of ivory goose biot feathers.

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King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan: Queen Rania wore a brimless domed hat in the same pale yellow as her dress. The design includes embellishment at the back (a rosette? a bow?) and a wrap of delicate yellow veil.

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Designer: Noel Stewart. Dress by Tamara Ralph. 
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Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco:  Princess Charlene topped her pale suit (love the pearl floral buttons!) with a sleek beret percher hat simply trimmed with a knotted bow at the side. The hat looks to be covered in the same barely-blush hue as the suit.

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Designer: Philip Treacy
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King Willem Alexander and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands: Queen Máxima wore a structural white straw saucer hat with brim extension and flying bow. The vertical design of the hat pairs so beautifully with the exquisite applique lace cutout on the bodice of her dress.

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Designer: Philip Treacy. Dress by Jan Taminiau
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King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium: Queen Mathilde topped a caped pink dress with an ivory straw saucer hat with extended windowpane brim that folds downward in a sharp edge.

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Designer: dress by Armani Prive.
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King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain: Queen Letizia wore the largest hat we’ve seen her in to date, a design in natural hued straw with mushroom brim and button crown, draped in an overlay of widely woven (I think it’s vintage?) bubblegum pink net veil. It’s a dramatic design for Letizia and so wonderful to see her experimenting with new millinery shapes.

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Designer: Balel Millinery. Suit by Carolina Hererra. 
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His Majesty The Yang di-Pertuan Agong XVI and Her Majesty Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia

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Queen Anne-Marie, Crown Prince Pavlos and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece: Queen Anne-Marie wore a navy bandeau headpiece trimmed with a pair of navy silk bows. Crown Princess Marie-Chantal topped her ice blue Mary Katrantzou dress with a coordinating Philip Treacy percher hat trimmed with a monochrome multi-looped bow on the side.

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His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, King of the Ashanti Kingdom and Lady Julia Osei Tutu

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Her Majesty Margareta and Prince Radu of Romania: Margareta wore a cornflower blue silk covered percher with feather mount trim. While it coordinates well with her ensemble, unfortunately, it has some some visible construction issues.

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Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark: Crown Princess Mary was head to toe in regal purple, her ensemble crowned by a pleated bandeau headpiece with birdcage tulle veil.

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Designer: bespoke Jane Taylor. Coat dress by Soren Le Schmidt 
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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden wore a klein blue silk covered domed pillbox with bow at the back.

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Designer: Tim Martenson. Dress by Pär Engsheden. Styling by Tina Torn
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Hereditary Prince Alois and Hereditary Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein: Princess Sophie echoed the sleek lines of her dress and coat with a straw beret percher hat in the same orchid purple. The hat is simply trimmed with a straw twist.

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Designer: Philip Treacy
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Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway: Princess Mette-Marit wore a pink pillbox hat with birdcage veil.

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Designer: bespoke Jane Taylor. Dress by Peter Dundas
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Foreign Minister of Oman, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi and Crown Prince of Oman, Theyazin bin Haitham

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I know many of your have been waiting for this- which hats stood out most to you?

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Funeral of King Constantine

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The funeral of King Constantine II, former King of the Hellenes, took place on January 16.

Crown Princess Marie-Chantal

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Princess Nina

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Queen Margrethe and Princess Benedikte of Denmark

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Queen Máxima and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

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Queen Silvia and Queen Mathilde

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Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein

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Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Lady Gabriella Kingston

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Queen Noor and Princess Raiyah of Jordan

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Former Empress Farah Pahlavi

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Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna

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Margravine of Baden

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Princess Ekaterina of Hanover also attended in a layered black velvet bow bandeau headpiece by Jennifer Behr (bottom row below).

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Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II: Royal Guests

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The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday was attended by numerous other monarchs and royal guests.

Queen Margrethe of Denmark

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King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden

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King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway

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King Abdullah and Queen Rania of Jordan

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Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg

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Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco

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King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands

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King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium

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Designer: Fabienne Delvigne

King Philippe and Queen Letizia of Spain

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Designer: Cherubina

King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain

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Designer: Miguel Marzo y Jesús Díaz

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako

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His Majesty Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah of Malaysia and Her Majesty Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah of Malaysia

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Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Faisal Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

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Her Majesty Margareta, Custodian of the Romanian Crown and Prince Radu

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Queen Anne-Marie and Crown Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece

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Prince Alois of Liechtenstein and Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein (followed by King Letsie III of Lesotho)

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Prince Hassan bin Talal and Princess Haya of Jordan

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Princess Sarvath al-Hassan of Jordan
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Sheikha Amna bint Mohammed Al Thani of Qatar

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Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco
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Prince Alexander and Princess Katherine of Serbia

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The late Duke of Edinburgh’s family, Hess and Baden descendants of Philip’s late sisters.

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Hats worn to the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth: Family Members

Hats worn to the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth: Extended British Royal Family 

Hats worn to the State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth: Noble and Notable Guests

Royal Hats In Washington: Jordan, Bahrain & Kuwait

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Jake Short, longtime reader, hat aficionado (follow him on Instagram or Twitter) and dear friend of Royal Hats, joins us today for the third part of an extended 2022 series on different royal hats that have been worn on visits to his home city, Washington DC. Thank you, Jake, for this leading us on another learning journey!  

In the US, when one mentions royalty, the British Royal Family is almost always the first to come to most people’s minds. If not the British Royals, then usually it’ll be another European royal family. But of the 29 independent monarchies that exist today (when one groups the UK and Commonwealth realms together), 13 are in Asia, and 7 of those are in the Middle East. Today we will look at the headwear worn by royals from of 3 Middle Eastern countries: Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait. 

Jordan

The House of Hashim is the second oldest reigning royal house in the world (after Japan’s House of Yamato) and the branch of the family that remains on the throne in Jordan isn’t known to wear many hats in general (except for the keffiyeh, which is discussed below). This was no exception when visiting the US. King Hussein and his son Prince Faisal (half-brother of current King Abdullah II) both wore military officers caps during trips to the DC area in 1959 and 2012 respectively.

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While King Hussein’s last wife Queen Noor wore hats on visits to the UK and France, I couldn’t find any record of her in any sort of headwear in Washington, DC. Queen Noor was born Lisa Halaby in DC and for a time as a child, attended National Cathedral School.

2016 saw a different kind of hat on a Jordanian royal: a mortarboard cap worn by Crown Prince Hussein during graduation ceremonies as he received a bachelor’s degree in international history from Georgetown University in DC.

Bahrain
The first Emir of Bahrain from 1961 until 1999, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa wore a keffiyeh to meet Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.
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As illustrated in the photographs above, a keffiyeh is a traditional Arabian headdress. Made from a square scarf usually made of cotton, it is anchored to the head with an agal. While the keffiyeh is recognized as a cultural headdress, it is a practical one as well, providing its wearer protection from sunburn, dust and sand.
Emir Isa bin Salman’s son Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa changed his title from Emir to King in 2002. When his son, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, met with President Barack Obama in May 2015, he wore a keffiyeh anchored with the most traditional style of agal, a black cord woven from goat hair and worn wrapped twice around the head.
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Kuwait

Finally, more keffiyehs were worn by Kuwaiti royals in DC. During President Lyndon B. Johnson’s final state dinner at the White House in December 1968, Emir Sabah Al-Salim Al-Sabah (Sabah III) and members of his retinue can be seen in white keffiyehs.

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Sabah III’s successor was his first cousin once-removed, Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (Jaber III), who spoke at the White House in 1990.

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Jaber III’s second cousin Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah was Crown Prince when he visited with Ronald Reagan in 1988. He would later rule as Emir Saad I for only 9 days due to ill health before being voted out by the Kuwaiti parliament the same day he submitted a letter of abdication. Jaber III’s younger brother Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Sabah IV) was seen at the White House in 2018.

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Following Sabah IV’s death in the fall of 2020, his younger brother Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Nawaf I) became the Emir of Kuwait and remains so today. 

My next post will continue with headwear worn in Washington by royals from Oman, Qatar, the UAE and Afghanistan.

Most of our attention here at Royal Hats is paid to the European and Imperial royal houses where women are the primary hat wearers. It’s an interesting change to look at the monarchies where men wear the headwear!  Thanks Jake, for this addition to what is a fascinating series. 

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Monaco Royal Wedding: Other Reigning Royal Houses

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With lots more hats to still admire, we continue our look at the July 2, 2011 religious wedding of Prince Albert and Princess Charlene with guests from The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Jordan, Thailand and Morocco.

Princess Máxima, as was her title at the time, debuted a hat at this wedding that has since become one of her most-worn pieces. In warm-hued caramel straw, the familiar ‘slice’ shape is sharply upturned on one side that curves back off the face to effectively highlight it. The hat is simply trimmed with a wide Petersham ribbon hatband in the same colour tied in a side bow. The combination of caramel hat and tangerine silk dress was a little out-of-the-box but worked well on Máxima, brilliantly playing of Willem-Alexander’s crisp white tropical dress military uniform.

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Designer: Fabienne Delvigne. Dress by Natan.

The Countess of Wessex topped her sleek slate grey pleated sheath dress with an exuberant hat. A large grey saucer, placed at a steep incline, the design’s focus was its trim- large sprays of cut feathers in varied shades of grey and finished with a sizable diamanté cluster on the outer side of the hat. The colour variation in the feather trim gave great depth and movement to the hat and while the overall look was monochrome, the sleek lines of the dress contrasted with the hat’s lavish trim to provide enough textural contrast that kept the look anything but flat.

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Designer: Jane Taylor. Dress by Amanda Wakeley.

Princess Michael of Kent wore one of her characteristically wide brimmed hats, a finely woven white straw design with low crown and curved brim trimmed with an oversize beigey-blush silk rose under one side of the brim.  You’ll notice no seam at the base of this hat’s crown, its smooth lines flowing out to the brim, like a cloche. The seamless shape creates a downward front curve of the hat, pulling it down visually, and making me really wish the flower was above the brim in a more traditional placement to lift the look. As it is, almost touching Marie-Christine’s shoulder, the flower competes with her amazing necklace. Although, who, am I kidding, we’re all unable to divert our eyes from those sleeves.

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Princess Sara al Faisal of Jordan (second wife of Prince Faisal bin Hussein) brought some colour to this wedding’s fashion with a head to toe look in vibrant magenta. Her button percher, covered in what looks like the same silk as her dress and jacket, was trimmed with a large silk rose and deep burgundy curled cut feather. Different shades of deep pink in the rose trim gave the hat great dimension and saved the overall look from being one-note.

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While not in hats, Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana of Thailand and  Lalla Meryem of Morocco and her daughter, Sharifa Lalla Soukaïna Filali, represented their respective countries in exquisitely beautiful national dress that deserves inclusion in our sartorial tour of this event.

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Well, what do you think, dearest readers? Which hats and ensembles stand out here are your favourites?

Jump to this post for an index of other royal hats that appeared at this wedding. 

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