to this undated photo of a young King Carl Gustaf of Sweden in an Easter bonnet… of sorts. Happy Easter, dearest readers!
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Swedish Royals Honour Attack Victims
Members of the Swedish Royal Family gathered in Stockholm today to honour the four victims (and 15 people who were injured) of last week’s terrorist attack. King Carl Gustaf led the family in a black trilby hat.
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Queen Silvia repeated her black felt cloche with wide velvet hatband, knotted at the side.
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Crown Princess Victoria repeated her Garbo hat in black rabbit fur felt with gently curved brim. The hat is simply trimmed with a Petersham ribbon hatband and rough edged bow, which Victoria wore at the back (as opposed to the front, where we saw it last time).
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Princess Sofia wore some sort of black bowed headpiece, anchored in her chignon
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Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: I think it is new
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Such simple, classic hat shapes work well for such events as these, don’t they?
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This Week’s Extras
Queen Silvia in black straw hat with lovely twisted hat band detail at yesterday’s funeral of Carl Adam “Noppe” Lewenhaupt, a very close friend of the King since childhood (Svenskdam)
On March 22, members of the Imperial family joined the Emperor and Empress a concert by music college graduates at the Imperial Palace. Princess Kiko wore a blue bumper hat, Princess Kako a white bowler, Princess Nobuko a large white toque and Princess Akiko, a white trilby with sea foam green hatband. The same day, Princess Hanako attended the 75th Award Ceremony of All Japan Youth Invention and Innovation Exhibition. She wore a pale blue felt hat with jauntily upturned short brim. (Imperial Family Of Japan)
On March 29, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko offered prayers for Emperors Showa and Kojun at the Imperial Musashi Mausoleum in Hachiōji, Tokyo. The Empress wore a grey saucer with raised rim around the back and a folded bow at the side.
King Carl Gustaf opened a ski resort on Monday in his trusty brown fedora.
More from Netty Leistra on her visit to the exhibition on Princess Beatrix’s hats at Het Loo Palace, including a stroll around the palace gardens (Netty’s Royalty)
I absolutely adore these very happy, bouncing pink polka dots on this John Boyd design. If I was going to Ascot, this would be my pick because I can’t imagine a happier hat to wear.
Don’t worry- I haven’t forgotten Prince Felix’s confirmation in Denmark yesterday. We’ll look at the hat and headpieces from this event in a full feature post tomorrow.
Adorable snap of wee Prince Jigme Namgyel of Bhutan enjoying the snow with his father King Jigme Khesar and grandfather King Jigme Singye
We enjoyed the hats from this week’s two state visits- here’s a peek at the formal fashion
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Photos from IBL; The Asahi Shimbun and The Asahi Shimbun via Getty; Biglobe
This Week’s Extras
Numerous Imperial black hats yesterday at the memorial service to commemorate the 100 days anniversary of the death of late Prince Takahito (Imperial Family of Japan)
King Carl Gustaf donned his trusty fedora during a visit to Lund last weekend (PPE)
More ethereal headdresses (see here, here, here, here and here) from Stephen Jones at the Dior show in Paris
Some excellent millinery options for upcoming winter races- this straw hat with silk blooms and feathers from Jess Collett and this leather percher with handmade leather flowers from Bundle MacLaren
Sheikha Moza shared this throwback photo from an education conference in Paris in 2012. Her teal velvet turban is fabulous… as is this small section of the speech she delivered then. (Moza bint Nasser)
The Belgian King had some strong words to say about recent political developments in the UK and USA (Wort)
Another pair of beautiful new photos released by The Swedish Royal Court of Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel, Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar. So sweet.
In honor of his son’s first birthday tomorrow, proud papa King Jigme shared this adorable snap
Photos from PPE Agency and Anna-Lena Ahlström, Kungahuset.se
This Week’s Extras
Our friends over at Luxarazzi have an interesting interview with milliner Sylvia Martinez about her participation in a recent exhibition which included designing pieces for Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on her designs.
King Gustaf in his trusty fedora at last Sunday’s world cup cross country skiing race in Ulricehamn
Some very interesting millinery at the Chanel runway show this week- see here for the closeup and here for the full ensemble. I’m not sure I’m feeling the slouchy crowns. Also interesting were Dolce and Gabbana’s lavish floral crowns and Stephen Jones’ over-the-face angel wings at Dior. And I have no words whatsoever for Stephen Jones’ men’s tweed caps.
I’d love to see this crimson and gold feathered fedora by Jess Collett at the Cheltenham races this year on a royal head. What a fun style departure it would be for the Duchess of Cambridge.
You still have a few more days to cast votes for your favourite new, repeated and men’s royal hats of 2016
Have you heard about the Georgian Papers Programme, in which more than 350,000 usually unseen royal documents from the Georgian period (most relating to King George III and Queen Charlotte) are being made available online? This article at the Guardian has a great explanation of the project as does this page from the Royal Collection Trust. The project went live this morning.
New photos of young Princess Athena released for her fifth birthday (Danish Monarchy)
Lovely new photograph of Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and their your family
Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella on the balcony of the Royal Palace yesterday during the annual Sainte-Devote celebrations
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