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Swedish Ruby Jubilee Part 1

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The Swedish Royal Family attended a mass this morning in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm to celebrate the 40th anniversary of King Carl Gustaf’s reign. For this important event, Queen Silvia wore a new hat- a peacock blue straw classic pillbox with a small bow at the back. Silvia has a long history of wearing pillboxes and I thought the scale and colour of this one was really lovely on her.

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September 15, 1973 was not only was the day that Carl Gustaf ascended the Swedish throne of Sweden- it was also the same day that Prince Daniel was born. For this double celebration, Crown Princess Victoria wore a new white rose fascinator to compliment her amazing white Chanel dress. While I prefer a less harsh hairstyle on Victoria, her overall look today was very refined and elegant.

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Princess Madeleine was also in white and topped off her black and white Valentino jacket with a new pointed black callot headpiece. This hat made me scratch my own head… I thought the classic coat and dress just didn’t work with this pointy half-hat. From the side, this hat looked like a kerchief and I’m afraid it was my least favourite of the day.

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The star today was, however, this family’s youngest member. Little Princess Estelle, who joined in the balcony appearance following the church service, wore a white bow in her hair. I know this does not really constitute a hat but Estelle was simply too adorable not to include in this post.

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You can see the hats worn by extended family and royal guests at this post.

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Perfect Royal Beach Hat

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Princess Madeleine of Sweden and her new husband Chris O’Neill released a photo from their honeymoon in the Seychelles today. Madeleine looks relaxed and effortlessly glamorous in a light coloured straw fedora with large, slightly floppy brim. It’s the perfect hat for a walk on a beautiful beach, isn’t it?

A number of other paparazzi photos of the couple on honeymoon were also released today. Those images will not be included here on The Royal Hat’s Blog.

Photo from Princess Madeleine of Sweden’s Facebook Page

Swedish Royal Wedding

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Royal Hats Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Mr. Christopher O’Neil celebrated their wedding this afternoon at the Royal Chapel in the Royal Palace in Stockholm. It was a quiet wedding by royal standards with a number of personal touches, an emphasis on love and family and a radiantly happy couple. Here is a review of the headpieces and tiaras from this wedding.

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The Bride

The Bride’s Immediate Family
Queen Silvia, Princess Victoria

The Bride’s Extended Family
Princess Margaretha, Princess Brigitte, Princess Désirée, Princess Christina, Countess Gunnila Bernadotte of Wisborg, Countess Marianne Bernadotte of Wisborg
and Désirée von Bohlen und Halbach

The Groom’s Family
Eva O’Neill, Tatjana d’Abo and Countess Natascha von Abensperg und Traun

Danish Royals
Crown Princess Mary, Princess Marie and Princess Benedikte

Greek Royals
Princess Marie-Chantal, Princess Tatiana and Princess Theodora

Norwegian Royals
Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Märtha Louise

German Royals
Princess Ursula of Bavaria, Princess Anna of Bavaria, Princess Silvia of Arenberg
and Hereditary Princess Kelly of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Other Royals
Hereditary Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Luxembourg, The Countess of Wessex, and Princess Takamado of Japan

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Swedish Royal Wedding: The Bride

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Royal Hats Princess Madeleine choose a beautifully romantic bridal look in a short sleeved lace gown with sweeping train. A sketch can be seen here. A press release on the Swedish Monarchy website reads,

“Princess Madeleine’s wedding dress was created by the Italian designer Valentino Garavani. The wedding dress is made from pleated silk organza with appliquéd ivory-coloured Chantilly lace. The upper section of the bodice is lace with a deep-cut back. Narrow vertical pleats open up from the accentuated waist, above the wide skirt, which ends with a four-metre-long train. The veil is also silk organza, and is edged with tulle scatted with point d’esprit dots and small Chantilly lace orange blossom. The Princess’s shoes are ivory white organdy with woven point d’esprit dots.The Princess’s tiara is privately owned, decorated with sprigs of orange blossom.”

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It’s a very light and delicate gown that seemed to suit Madeleine well… except for the bodice, which wasn’t fit perfectly and seemed to easily fall off her shoulders. I’m also not a fan of the dust ruffle at the bottom. That all being said, Princess Madeleine showed her traditional and romantic side through the choice of this dress and it suited her beautifully.

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Princess Madeleine anchored her silk organza veil with the Modern Fringe Tiara, a piece privately owned by her mother (read more about it here) but one she has worn often and is closely associated with her.  The bottom of the tiara frame, which sits quite high, was woven with white orange blossoms.

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The couple were attended by bridesmaids and pages in white and spring green ensembles. The bridesmaids wore delicate white floral bandeaux in their hair.

For the evening reception, Madeleine changed into a white Nina Ricci ballgown with pearl covered bodice, sequin dotted tulle skirt and white silk sash. The gown, originally worn by Queen Silvia to the 2001 Nobel Prize ceremony, is the stuff of fairytale princess/bridal dreams and clearly had great sentimental both for Princess Madeleine and her mum. I adore that she wore it as her second wedding dress.

Princess Madeleine has not had an easy path to finding love and her look today was surpassed only by her megawatt smile and radiant happiness. What did you think of her bridal looks?

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Swedish Royal Wedding Banns Read

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Banns for their marriage of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O’Neill were published this morning in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm. After the service, guests attended a reception at the Royal Palace. Princess Madeleine wore a green satin dress with matching hair bow designed by Pär Engsheden (who designed Crown Princess Victoria’s spectacular wedding dress three years ago). It’s a bit twee for my liking.

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Queen Silvia looked very elegant in a pistachio green pillbox… or so I thought. Belgian hat designer Fabienne Delvigne (who I suspect made this hat) must be trying to start a convertible hat craze because this is the second European monarch this month to wear an open topped hat (see the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg here). I love everything about this hat on Silvia except the open top.

Crown Princess Victoria was very pretty in pale pink with a large fascinator pinned around her chignon. I wish we had a better view of the fascinator because it looks like it is an exquisitely detailed combination of silk flowers and lace trim. Without a good view, it is difficult to make a fair assessment but I do wonder if this headpiece, which is softly romantic, would look better with a less severe hairstyle.

Chris’ mother Eva O’Neill wore an embellished fez-shaped hat. It’s a unique shape that doesn’t rank among my favourites but paired well with her printed dress. Chris’ sister Tatjana D’Abo wore a tall ivory straw Philip Treacy cloche with huge cabbage rose.

This week, it was announced that the groom respectfully declined a  royal title as he plans to continue his career as an investment consultant in New York. It appears that the couple will have a non-royal life in New York. I suspect, sadly, there will be very few occasions in future where we will see Princess Madeline wear a hat.

**NOTE** several comments about Sofia Hellqvist’s attendance at this event not been approved. Further comments along this topic will also not be approved (consider yourself warned Olivia R.) There’s plenty of other forums and blogs out there where you can discuss this young woman and her relationship with the Royal Family. For the record- all name calling and debate about who should or should not be included in royal events is not welcome here. Let’s keep it to hat love, people!

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