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This Week’s Extras

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Zara Phillips Tindall is looking great competing at the Badminton Horse Trials this week (Daily Mail)

Royal Ascot has collaborated with eight milliners on an collection of one off headpieces. Read more about it here.

Herta Graves, former hatmaker to British royals, passed away this week (Telegraph). Speaking of royal milliners- those of you lucky enough to be in London might want to catch milliner Stephen Jones speaking at the London School of Fashion on May 16. Tickets are free and you can register here.

Princess Alexandra, who is Royal Honorary Colonel of The Royal Yeomanry, presented the group with a Guidon at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Her repeated blue staw hat (you’ll see a better view of it at a previous outing here) is by Rachel Trevor Morgan

Infanta Elena donned a straw fedora hat to join King Juan Carlos and Princess Victoria for the Mutua Madrid Open Tennis Tournament on May 3

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The Court Jeweller has great coverage of the Met Gala this week, which was attended by Queen Rania of Jordan and Charlotte Casiraghi.

Prince Henrik showed his youthful spirit, enjoying amusement park rides at Tivoli Park in Copenhagen (Paris Match)

Sweet photo of the new Prince of Bhutan (Yellow Bhutan)

 

Best New Royal Hats of 2015

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I am so excited to share your choices for the top ten best new royal hats we saw in 2015. You have chosen very well, dearest readers, and now is time to pick a winner. In random order, here are your ten finalists (please click on any of the captions below each photo to jump back to original posts to see additional description and detail of the hats):

#1 and #2

Queen Mathilde, June 25, 2015 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats      Crown Princess Victoria, May 31, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Queen Mathilde in a red straw Fabienne Delvigne saucer on June 25 in China
Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden in a pale pink angled Philip Treacy picture hat for the Indian State Visit, May 31

#3

3.Beatrice Boromeo, May 10, 2015 | Royal Hats

Beatrice Borromeo in a natural straw hat with textured mushroom brim at the Monaco twins’ christening on May 10

#4 and #5

#7 and #8


#9 

Princess Madeleine, October 11, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Princess Madeleine of Sweden in a magenta silk flower and ribbon twist headpiece by Philip Treacy
for the christening of Prince Nicolas on October 11

#10

Queen Mathilde, July 21, 2015 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats

Queen Mathilde in a pale blue Fabienne Delvigne picture hat with fluted brim on July 21 for Belgian National Day

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You have seen the finalists- now it is time to cast your vote. Voting will remain open until January 15 at midnight GMT and we will celebrate the winner shortly thereafter. You can vote once every twelve hours for as many hats as you wish. To make things interesting, I have hidden results until the poll is finished. Happy voting!

Photos from Getty as indicated; Philip Reynaers/Photo News S.A./Corbis; Sören Andersson / TT via The Swedish Royal Court; Eric Gaillard / Reuters; Patrick van Katwijk/dpa/Corbis, and  Patrick van Katwijk/dpa/Corbis

Best New Royal Hat of 2015: Great Britain Part 1

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We have come to our final royal house in our look at the best new royal hats of 2015. There were, however, so many British royal hats this year that we’ll narrow down our favourites in two royal polls. To streamline each one, I have omitted a number of less memorable hats (links are provided below).Click on any of the photos to jump back to original posts to see additional description and detail of the hats.

The hats with the most votes across this semifinal will move forward to a final poll. If you don’t think any of these hats are worthy of the title of Best of 2015, save your vote (or jump back to vote again for hats from Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway as well as Monaco, Greece, Dubai and Qatar).

Queen Elizabeth (not including this blue and magenta hat, this blue tweed hat, this grey bowed hat, this black hat, this blue bucket hat, this white hat, this white hat, this turquoise pleated hat, this pale peach hat and the red hat with faux fur trim she wore yesterday)

1.Queen Elizabeth, June 16, 2015 in Angela Kelly | Royal Hats  2.Queen Elizabeth, June 17, 2015 in Angela Kelly | Royal Hats  3.Queen Elizabeth, June 19, 2015 in Rachel Trevor Morgan  4.Queen Elizabeth, June 25, 2015 in Angela Kelly | Royal Hats

5.Queen Elizabeth, June 26, 2015 in Angela Kelly  6.Queen Elizabeth, June 26, 2015 in Angela Kelly  7.Queen Elizabeth, October 20, 2015 in Rachel Trevor Morgan | Royal Hats  8.Queen Elizabeth, November 28, 2015 in Angela Kelly | Royal Hats

The Duchess of Cornwall (not including this mint green hat, this tweed fur hat and the black one worn yesterday)

9.Duchess of Cornwall, May 12, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats  10.Duchess of Cornwall, July 5, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Princess Alexandra of Kent

11.Princess Alexandra, April 19, 2015 | Royal Hats  12.Princess Alexandra, June 6, 2015 in Rachel Trevor Morgan | Royal Hats  13.Princess Alexandra, June 17, 2015 in Rachel Trevor Morgan | Royal Hats

UPDATE by request, I have added, The Duchess of Cornwall’s mint green hat with twists and Queen Elizabeth’s brown hat with cream bow.

14. Duchess of Cornwall, August 15, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats  15.Queen Elizabeth, November 24, 2015 in Rachel Trevor Morgan | Royal Hats

Also omitted from this poll were hats worn by the Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Michael of Kent, Princess Anne (see here, here and here) and the Duchess of York. That leaves the thirteen hats seen above- do you think any of them deserve to be named best new royal hat of the year? Cast your vote below. Voting will remain open until January 1, 2016 and you can vote for multiple hats up to four times per day.