to this day, forty years ago, when Queen Elizabeth wore a striped golden peach and vanilla helmet-esque turban with trailing spaghetti trim while on a visit to Montreal, Canada. It’s a lot of look, this one.
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to this day in 1983 that saw a young Queen Noor (and very young Princess Iman) in summery hats on vacation in St. Tropez.
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one hundred years to a silver anniversary celebration and two lovely summer hats. On July 6, 1918, the future King George V and Queen Mary celebrated 25 years of marriage with four of their six children (the Prince of Wales and Prince John are not pictured). While the men’s military uniforms show the country was still in the throes of WWI and Queen Mary’s voluminous feathered toque looks plucked straight from a Victorian fashion catalogue, the future Countess of Harewood’s flower trimmed boater looks modern, fresh, and rather hopeful.
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to this day, fifty-one years ago, when a Crown Prince Pavlos was christened in Athens amidst several magnificent gowns and hats.
While we are all recovering from the over-hat-stimulated, post-Ascot coma, I thought you’d all find this look back to what fashion looked like at Royal Ascot 110 years ago a remarkable one.
I’m taking the rest of the day off but will be back tomorrow with a look at the hats from Luxembourg National Day.
Royal Hats 