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Platinum Jubilee Countdown: 67

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Princess Elizabeth was named Colonel of the Grenadier Guards on her sixteenth birthday, April 21, 1942. That day, she conducted her first official engagement, an inspection of the regiment at Windsor Castle, in a military-styled hat with visor and pleated halo crown.

She would wear a another version of this hat several times during the final years of WWII, along with the similarly styled cap of her Auxiliary Territory Service uniform.

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Platinum Jubilee Countdown: 68

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Princess Elizabeth attends Children’s Day at Aldershot Tattoo on May 31, 1938 in a wide brimmed straw hat with floral trim. She wore the same hat a year later on a visit to St. Catherine’s Docks with her grandmother, Queen Mary.

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Platinum Jubilee Countdown: 69

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Princess Elizabeth in a straw cloche with flower hatband and brim pleats at the side worn on a June 14, 1935 visit to the Royal Windsor Horse Show with her parents. She was photographed several times in this hat that year, including King George V’s Silver Jubilee.

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Platinum Jubilee Countdown: 70

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Today marks 70 days from the start of the Platinum Jubilee. We’re going to countdown to this historic event with a daily look back at some of the hats Queen Elizabeth has worn during her lifetime. Where better to start than at the beginning of her hat wearing life, as a toddler in 1928 with this wonderful ruffled bonnet.

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Hats From the Past

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Royal Hats 57 years ago to the January 30, 1965 funeral of Winston Churchill. Queen Elizabeth wore a black velvet tam by Aage Thaarup with tall stem and tiny rows of impeccable vertical stitching.

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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret both wore dramatically shaped black turbans,

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Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ore a draped embroidered turban style hat while her sister-in-law Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, wore a black toque. The Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra wore veiled black pillboxes.

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Princess Marina of Greece wore a draped halo turban while and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands wore a large brimless fur hat. Prince Berhard starts on Queen Juliana’s right while on her left are are Charles De Gaulle and Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, all of the men in military uniform and caps.

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While the hats at events such as these are not the focus, they speak to a particular moment in time, and to the importance of the event to which they were worn.

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