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This Week’s Extras

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Royal Hats

Crown Princess Masako donned a grey pork pie hat back on November 1 in Myagi at a ceremony to commemorate victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake. On Monday, she attended a tea party at the Imperial Palace in a white hat with silk jacquard printed hatband.

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On Tuesday, Princess Kiko attended an event celebrating the 130th anniversary of the establishment of Akita Branch of Japanese Red Cross Society. The lattice embroidery on her navy silk brimless hat matched the collar of her suit.

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Prince Harry in military dress on Thursday to open the 89th Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey and meet with some of the 2,000 veterans in attendance.

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Dramatic red rose headpiece on Flora Ogilvy for a Dolce and Gabbana show

Crown Princess Mary and Princess Isabella in cosy hats for the Hubertus Hunt last Sunday

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New designs that stood out to me this week:

Striking camel fedora with appliqué flower covered crown from UK based Layla Leigh Millinery
Statement boater with feather and crin trim from Australian brand Peacock Millinery
Wide brimmed, flat crowned maroon felt hat with fuchsia hatband from Texan milliner Milli Starr
Wonderful purple leather floral headpiece from Hayley Bonomi of Polly and Peaches in Queensland
Lovely use of printed felt on this smart cloche variation from California based Jill Courtemanche Millinery
Very pretty pink picture hat with exquisite grey straw lily trim from Australian brand Emma Michelle Millinery

And these structural wonders in graphic black and white from Australia milliner Catherine Ellen of The Essential Hat


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Head of the Russian Imperial House, Grand Duchess Maria, made a statement on the centennial of the Russian Revolution

Lovely shot of Queen Mathilde at the Taj Mahal on Monday, taken by King Philippe

Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques attended their first formal dinner this week. Princess Charlene also shared a fun snap of the young prince piloting his first Maritime Police Boat.

Wonderful photographs shared by Prince Nikolaos here and here and another beautiful landscape shot shared by James Ogilvy here

How elegant Queen Elizabeth looked this evening, arriving at Royal Albert Hall for the annual Festival of Remembrance.

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And finally, some wonderful images of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall taken on various stops of their southeast Asian tour earlier this week

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 Photos from Getty and social media as indicated; The Asahi Shimbun and The Ashi Shimbun via Getty; Sankei

More Danish Royals Skiing in Switzerland

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Just as their relatives did two days ago, Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary posed for photos with their four children today in Verbier, Switzerland. For this annual ski holiday, everyone was again in ski helmets and hats.

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Royal Births and (a lack of) Hats

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  Reader Barbara wrote in wondering why in all the activity surrounding Prince George’s arrival (and his presentation to the public when he left the hospital), there was not a hat in sight! As usual, I’ll do my best to answer.

The European royal ladies have given birth in hospital only since the late 1970s. Before that, royal births occurred at home, far away from public view. The first look at a royal baby and the new mum happened through photos taken in a formal photo session or, in some cases, at the christening. When royal mothers started choosing hospital births, that all changed. I suspect that this glimpse of mother and baby while leaving the hospital became an understood public moment in an otherwise strictly private time. And as we know, hats are optional in royal private life.

For the past 35 years, the British royal mums all left the hospital without hats:  Princess Anne with Zara;  Princess Diana with Willam and with Harry; The Duchess of York with Beatrice and with Eugenie; The Countess of Wessex with Louise and with James. Same with the European Princesses: Princess Caroline with Charlotte; Princess Marie with Henrik; Princess Mary and Prince Frederick with twins Vincent and Josephine; the Belgian King and Queen with Elisabeth and with Eleonore; the Spanish Royals (here, here and here); and Princess Victoria with Estelle, just to name a few. Even the most formal and traditional of the royal houses, the Imperial house of Japan, go without hats to introduce their babies:  Princess Masako with Aiko and Princess Kiko with Hisahito.

In my search through past royal baby introductions, I could find only three instances of hats – well, one kerchief and two hats on the wee ones themselves (admittedly, all a bit of a stretch!)

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Princess Anne leaving St. Mary’s hospital with son Peter in November 1977

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Knit caps on Prince Christian and Princess Isabella of Denmark, October 18, 2005 and April 23, 2007

I hope that answers your question, Barbara! Not good news for us hat lovers, I’m afraid, but it I do think new mums of both the royal and non-royal variety deserve as many breaks as they can get.

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