As promised, here is the first of two weekly open posts (Mondays and Thursdays) for you to chat and share current royal hat happenings. Please post news, links and your thoughts about royal comings and goings (especially all those which involve hats!) in the comments below. Here is a wonderful yellow hat from the past to kick things off, worn on this day in 1985 by Queen Elizabeth to the School of Equestrian Art.
Here’s looking back 55 years ago this month at a visit by the Emperor and Empress of Iran to the Persepolis.
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to this day in 1969 which saw the Monaco royals visit their counterparts in Belgium. Host Queen Fabiola sported a spotted turban that stylishly references the fashion of the day while Princess Grace looked characteristically elegant in a black pillbox.
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Stepping back 105 years to a spectacular feathered hat worn by Queen Mary in 1911 while aboard the HMS Medina, sailing to India for the Delhi Durbar.
to this day in 2002 when Queen Beatrix welcomed Nigerian President Obasanjo on a state visit to the Netherlands wearing an oddly shaped charcoal and navy hat by Harry Scheltens.
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