to a visit to Wales, thirty-five years ago this month, that saw a young princess in a camel fabric beret hat.
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Designer: Stephen Jones. Coat dress by Arabella Pollen
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Hat From the Past
to October 1981 and a young Princess of Wales on an inaugural visit to the country of which she was princess. Many of Diana’s early hats were small pieces with veils and lavish feather trim like this one- I’m not sure this beige velvet John Boyd designed calot was the most becoming colour for the blonde princess but it looks from these photos that the crowds didn’t care.
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Designer: John Boyd. Coat by Caroline Charles
Please use the comments to also share any hats or royal hat news from today.
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Hats From the Past
to September 3, 1989 when members of the British royal family attended the Braemar games. While the Queen Mother’s peacock blue halo brimmed hat with feathers is a familiar shape and style for her, Princess Diana’s plaid pyramid is a bit perplexing
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Hats From the Past: Christening of Prince William
to this day, 35 years ago, when Prince William was christened.
Princess Diana wore a pink straw hat by John Boyd with a gently upcurled side brim, wide silk hatband and side bow. Interestingly, the hat would undergo a renovation (reshaped brim, narrowed hatband and bow moved to the back) when it appeared again the following March during a tour of Australia.
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Queen Elizabeth wore a ruched turban by Frederick Fox in the same dotted blue silk organza as her coat, trimmed with a lavish spray of trailing feathers (you can see a closeup view at this post). The Queen Mother wore a pale blue straw hat in her go-to cloche shape with upturned front brim, trimmed with a net veil and blue silk flowers.
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Princess Alexandra, named one of Prince William’s godmothers (in yellow at left, below), wore a simple white bowler hat with short, upturned brim.
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Princess Anne, seated behind her mother below, wore a vibrant blue brimless hat. Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, behind Princess Alexandra, wore a large white pillbox with what looks like a large bloom at the back.
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I think the hat shapes here are all reflective of early 1980s millinery fashion, perhaps, with the exception of the hat worn by the Queen Mother, whose signature style and shape became a nearly timeless look for her. Your thoughts about the other hats worn to this event?
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Hats From the Past
to July 24, 1986 and a royal visit to the Shetland Islands that saw not only a polka dotted open crowned hat (memorable in its own right) but also, a spectacular winged Viking helmet. I didn’t remember ever seeing this design on the Princess of Wales before- do any of you?
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