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Princess Akiko wore a very pretty cream picture hat this week on a visit to Wakayama Prefecture. Happy claps for a larger scale hat on an Imperial princess! (Imperial Family of Japan)

Lovely casual portrait of Queen Jetsun of Bhutan released for her 25th birthday this week  (Place Royale)

Princess Anne named a new Sea Cadets training vessel 40 years after naming its predecessor (The Wharf)

Crown Princess Victoria participated in the Volvo Ocean Race in Portugal (Getty)

The Prince of Wales, dressed in the full uniform and bearskin of a Welsh Guard, took part in a dress rehearsal this morning for next Saturday’s Trooping the Colour (Getty)

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So wonderful to see Crown Princess Masako attend the state banquet during the Philippine state visit (Getty)

Princess Isabella of Denmark carried out her fist official royal engagement today, accompanied by her mum (TV2)

Crown Princess Victoria, Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit looked to be having a great time together at the EAT Stockholm Food Forum (Svenskdam).

Beautiful new photos of Prince Felix, Princess Claire and Princess Amalia were released this week for the Prince’s birthday (Luxarazzi)

The picture we have all been waiting for- Prince George with his little sister, Princess Charlotte (Kensington Palace)

Swedish Royals Welcome Indian State Visit

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The Swedish Royal Family welcomed Indian President Shri Pranab Mukherjee yesterday for the start of a three-day state visit. Crown Princess Victoria met the Indian delegation at the Stockholm airport in a new picture hat. Made of blush pink straw, the hat featured an unusual off-centre peak atop the crown, a mushroom shaped brim and a signature Treacy looped bow trim at the side. Philip Treacy’s SS 2015 collection features a number of hats with this distinctive peaked crown shape, a shape that feels new and very creative. The crown’s more masculine shape contrasts well with the hat’s traditional brim and provided the edginess needed to keep Victoria’s all pink ensemble from looking overly sweet.

Crown Princess Victoria, May 31, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Crown Princess Victoria, May 31, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Designer: Philip Treacy. I believe this hat is a bespoke piece similar to OC-904 from SS 2015
Previously Worn: This hat is new

Queen Silvia topped her royal blue suit (not purple, as it shows below) with a coordinating calot hat trimmed with a spray of feathers at the back. Calot hats are such a complimentary shape for Silvia’s hairtstyle and the feather trim gave this one some light hearted personality. The colour is beautiful on Her Majesty and her printed blouse pulled the ensemble into perfect balance. It’s a good look for Silvia, don’t you agree?

Queen Silvia, May 31, 2015 | Royal Hats

Designer: Kerstin Carlefalk
Previously Worn: This is a new hat

Prince Carl Philip and his fiancée, Sofia Hellqvist, joined the group for official photos. Sofia wore pale pink fascinator bow with feathers around the back of her chignon (you can see a great view of it here). This is a pretty enough piece that seems fitting in her not-quite-royal-yet role. I hope after she officially joins the royal family on June 13, she will retire these small fascinators in favour of more substantial millinery pieces.

Swedish Royal Family, May 31, 2015 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown. My guess is Malinda Damgaard. 
Previously Worn: I believe this is a new fascinator

Photos from Sören Andersson / TT and Kungahuset.se via The Swedish Royal Court; HOP/Newspix and HOP/Newspix via Corbis

Swedish Royals Visit Gotland

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Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel visited the island of Gotland yesterday. For this visit, which included stops at a nature reserve, a refugee support program, military training ground, a furniture company and a meeting about youth entrepreneurship, Princess Victoria was chose a white trouser suit and coordinating fedora hat. The hat, in white straw, was simply trimmed with a navy and white striped band at the past of the crown. We don’t see Victoria in many fedora hats but this one was island chic at its best.

Crown Princess Victoria, May 27, 2015 in Borsalino | Royal Hats  Crown Princess Victoria, May 27, 2015 in Borsalino | Royal Hats Crown Princess Victoria, May 27, 2015 in Borsalino | Royal Hats Crown Princess Victoria, May 27, 2015 in Borsalino | Royal Hats

Designer: Borsalino.
Previously Worn: I believe this hat is new

Photos from David Sica via Expressen

Marriage Bans Published For Swedish Royal Wedding

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Banns for the marriage of Prince Carl Philip of Sweden and Sofia Hellqvist were published yesterday during a service held in the Royal Chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm. As with previous publications, the Swedish Royal Family were in attendance and hosted a reception following the service.

For this occasion, Queen Silvia wore a new ivory calot hat trimmed with a several huge silk cabbage rose and twisted straw ribbons. The hat was entirely covered in pearl studded net veil (see a close-up here) that gave immense texture to the piece. Unfortunately, the impact of the elaborate trim was lost by precarious placement way off the side of the hat and dulled by its monochrome pairing with the Queen’s off-white bouclé suit.

Queen Silvia, May 17, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Designer: Philip Treacy
Previously Worn: This hat is new

The bride-to-be, Sofia Hellqvist topped her eggshell and grey suit with a teeny tiny black cocktail hat (a hat that at first glance, I mistook for a large moth). It seems Sofia is taking baby steps when it comes to embracing millinery as this small cocktail hat, trimmed with large bow and a single feather, is marginally bigger than the fascinators we have seen her wear in the past. Thank goodness there will be much opportunity for millinery practice by this future princes, as the twee bow and too-small scale of this hat just missed the mark.

Sofia Hellqvist, May 17, 2015 in Malinda Damgaard | Royal Hats   Sofia Hellqvist, May 17, 2015 in Malinda Damgaard | Royal Hats

Designer: Malinda Damgaard. Dress and jacket by Max Mara
Previously Worn: This hat is new

Crown Princess Victoria also chose a much larger scale hat than she typically favours. In the same pale slate blue as her dress, Victoria’s percher cocktail hat was built on a fabric covered beret base.  Lavishly trimmed with the same twisted straw ribbons, an oversize silk flower and multiple silk bow loops that were on her mother’s calot, the vertical design of this hat gave it better balance and presence. Victoria seldom wears such embellished pieces and it was a nice change for her. Princess Estelle sported an adorable silk multi-looped hair bow.

Crown Princess Victoria, May 17, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Designer: Philip Treacy It is a bespoke version of OC-865. Dress by Philippa K. 
Previously Worn: This hat is new

Princess Madeleine wore the most daring hat of the day. Built on a pale pink disk of straw, her cocktail hat featured large curled  and twisted ribbons of straw. The sculptural hat is considerably larger than what we have seen Madeleine wear in several years and against her caramel mane of curled hair, worked surprisingly well. Little Princess Leonore wore a petite pink hair bow.

Princess Madeleine, May 17, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats

Designer: Philip Treacy OC-871
Previously Worn: This hat is new
It’s not often that we see most members of a royal family in hats by the same designer at a single event. This gave a unified look to most of the hats at this event and makes me curious, dear readers, which hat stood out most to you?

Swedish Royal Family, May 17, 2015 | Royal hats

Photos from Getty as indicated and Kungahuset.se

This Week’s Extras

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Queen Elizabeth wore a Rachel Trevor Morgan hat for her visit to the Jockey Club on Monday (Jockey Club)

Princess Beatrix opened an a WWII exhibition last weekend at the Curaçao Museum (NOS)

Crown Princess Victoria shows she is a great sport with a young fan (Scandinavian Royals Twitter) while on a recent trip to Norway (Svenskdam)

Beatrice Borromeo joined the Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Princess Maertha Louise for some Earth care on the Norwegian coast (Beatrice Borromeo Twitter)

Camille Gottlieb with her mum and siblings in New York this week (Svenskdam)

If you’d like to knit your own version of Princess Charlotte’s newborn bonnet, a here is a pattern (Ravelry). According to the Spanish shop where the bonnet was purchased, the young princess wore it upside down (Daily Mail)

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The Swedish Royal Court  released new photos of Princess Estelle

Princess Estelle, May 2015

Photo Kate Gabor Kungahuset.se / Photography Kate Gabor, The Royal Court, Sweden