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This Week’s Extras

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Queen Margrethe attended a worship service at Holmen Church last Sunday which celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Danish Sømandskristians and International Crones. She wore her burgundy brimless hat with black trim.

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Crown Prince Frederik in a tyrolean hat to host the King Hunt in Gribskov in North Zealand

Princess Beatrice in a natty trilby at the “Be Cool Be Nice” anti-bullying campaign book launch

The new millinery designs that jumped out at me this week:

Interesting fedora/homberg hybrid from Australian milliner Helen Kaminski for our beloved male readers
Smart black straw pillbox base cocktail hat with silk flower trim from Cessiah Alice Millinery
Bright orange fedora from Parisienne milliner Veronica Merucci Chapeaux
It takes a lot to make me notice a fascinator but Lisa Tan certainly did with this white layered design  
Same for this stunningly beautiful but slightly bonkers floral headpiece from Australian brand Murley & Co. Millinery

And this season’s surging return of the boater continues with four wonderfully trimmed designs from Millinery by Mel

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Stunning photo shared by James Ogilvy of a Queen Anne’s lace seed head about to open

Princess Charlene shared these sweet snaps of her twins’ first haircuts

And finally, a beautiful portrait of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh released today on the occasion of their 70th wedding anniversary on Monday.

Photo from Jens Astrup, Scanpix and social media as indicated

Danish Royals Celebrate 500 Years Since Reformation

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Members of the Danish royal family joined their Parliament’s celebration ceremony for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation today in Copenhagen. Queen Margrethe led the royal delegation in the purple pillbox she wore earlier this week in Italy. It’s a quick repeat for this sequin and feather trimmed hat, one that we all seem to agree is a great one for her.

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Designer: likely Per Falk Hansen
Previously Worn: Oct 28, 2017;  March 17, 2015
Crown Princess Mary repeated her black calot hat. The feather and felt leaf spray that was added to the piece back in 2015 for the opening of parliament seems to be a permanent addition, as it has adorned the hat ever since. This trim a much needed focal point to the simple design, which was paired beautifully (as always) with Mary’s black and cream ensemble.

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Princess Marie used the occasion to debut a new hat in a stunning deep peacock blue felt. The percher design, with a button base, is trimmed in overlapping felt leaves. The design has a very similar feel to a grey calot hat in Crown Princess Mary’s wardrobe and makes a great addition for Princess Marie- the colour is so wonderful on her. I just wish she had placed it further up on her head, centred over the arch of her eyebrow. 

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Designer: Likely Susanne Juul
Previously Worn: this hat is new

Princess Benedikte repeated her fuchsia bumper hat. The pink bow that adorned the piece last time we saw it has been removed again, leaving just the purple feather koosh ball which coordinates well with Benedikte’s coat. The hat is a beautiful colour and adds a punchy note to her ensemble.

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Previously Worn: April 16, 2015; October 5, 2010; 2007

It’s not often that we can line up four brimless royal hats at a single event and say that all four pack strong style punch. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this millinery quartet.
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Queen Margrethe In Italy

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On Friday, Queen Margrethe’s visit to Rome took her to the Presidential Palace Palazzo Quirinale  where she met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. For this meeting, the Danish Queen repeated her purple felt  slightly domed pillbox with sequin trim and side feather spray.

It’s a great hat for Margrethe- in scale, shape but particularly in colour, as she wears such saturated, jewel tones so well. On the hat’s first outing we didn’t get a look at the accompanying dress- clearly, the two pieces were designed to go together, with the horizontal bodice pleats making subtle reference to the black sequins that trim the perimeter of the hat. I think t’s an elegant and striking ensemble.

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Designer: Likely Per Falk Hansen  
Previously Worn: March 17, 2015
Thoughts about this hat?
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October Review: Week 1

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Hello again, dearest readers! It’s wonderful to be back with you- thank you all so very, very much for keeping the conversation going while I was away. I want to quickly review the hats we’ve seen this month and give you all the opportunity nominate any designs you wish to see in our October favourite new and repeated hat polls. Here are the hats we saw October 1 to October 7:

Sunday, October 1: Empress Michiko in a repeated pale grey rimmed saucer with origami circular trim worn on a visit to Ehime Prefecture

Oct 1, 2017 | Royal Hats

Tuesday, October 3: Crown Princess Victoria attended the opening of the Swedish Church meetings at Uppsala Cathedral in a new headpiece of dark green silk folded into dahlia blooms, each with a knotted silk center scattered with beads. It’s from Swedish label “Parant Parant” by Örjan Jakobsson.

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Tuesday, October 3: Prince Naruhito and Princess Masako attended the closing meeting of the 14th Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto in a repeated caramel brown bowler style hat with upturned Kettle brim, edged in a wide stripe of ribbon.

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Tuesday, October 3: For the opening of Danish Parliament, Queen Margrethe repeated her blue beanie hat with black patent leather cuff by Per Falk Hansen. Princess Benedikte repeated her red felt brimless hat with stacked crown by Susanne Juul, Crown Princess Mary repeated her Jane Taylor designed purple pillbox with beaded side feather trim and Princess Marie repeated her navy straw fedora with wide net tulle hatband wrap and silk flower trim

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Tuesday, October 3: Princess Hisako of Takamado attended a conference on public nutrition in Shimane Prefecture. She repeated an oyster grey straw variation on a boater hat with textured straw hatband, side bow and feather spray.

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Wednesday, October 4: Queen Máxima  opened an exhibition at the Mauritshuis museum in a new cranberry felt Garbo hat with hatband and side bow from Fabienne Delvigne

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Wednesday, October 4: Princess Ayako in a black straw Breton hat to attend the National Sports Festival

Wednesday, October 4: Princess Anne was joined by the Duke of Kent and Princess Michael of Kent at the memorial Mass for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor at Westminster Cathedral. Princess Anne repeated a black cocktail hat with net veil wrapped beret base circled in feathers by Amy Morris-Adams. Princess Michael repeated a  black felt Breton hat with side bow.

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Wednesday, October 4: Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited the Brunei Embassy in Tokyo to sign a guest book of good wishes for the Sultan of Brunei. The Empress repeated a small grey rimmed sauce hat with origami bow.

Thursday, October 5: The Earl and The Countess of Wessex attended The Sultan of Brunei’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. Sophie repeated the natural straw saucer hat she first debuted at Ascot, with a slight change of trimming. The hat’s first outing featured black silk twists which were replaced here with taupe crin ones and a large coral pink feather.

Thursday, October 5:  Queen Máxima attended a Teachers’ Congress in Amersfoort, repeating her midnight blue felt fedora.

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Friday, October 7: Princess Beatrix in a navy straw bumper hat (with giant belt loops) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Team Motor Assistance in Driebergen.

That wraps up the hats we saw during the first week of October- do any of them receive your nomination for top new or repeated hat this month?

Photos from Asahi; Stella Pictures; Sankei; Press Association; Keld Navntoft/Scanpix; Søren Bidstrup/Scanpix; Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk; Chugoku Shimbun; Asahi Shimbun via Getty

This Week’s Extras

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Princess Anne in more casual hats last weekend here and here to present awards and cheer on her daughter at the Gatcombe Horse Trials last weekend.

On Thursday, Sayako Kuroda (Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko’s daughter)  was photographed at the Ise Jingu Grand Shrine in a white pillbox hat. The former Imperial princess became Chief Priestess of the Shrine in June.

Sayako Kuroda, Sep 14, 2017 | Royal Hats

Queen Elizabeth repeated her white straw hat with tweed and feather trim for church last Sunday while the Duchess of Cornwall repeated her taupe straw beret.

Queen Margrethe repeated her textured red hat last Sunday at Maribo Cathedral.

Princess Alexandra visited HMS Warrior 1860 this week in her dove grey hat


Prinsjesdag, the annual Dutch opening of Parliament is scheduled for Tuesday next week. For a visual reminder of all the hats Queen Máxima has worn to this event in the past, jump over to this retrospective post.

After being seduced by felt fall/winter hats last week, my eye was drawn this week to these more summery designs thanks to racing season which is in full swing in Australia! Here’s what caught my attention:

Multi hued blue cocktail hat and grey design with twisted brim from Dutch milliner Myra van de Korput
Beautiful white and grey picture hat (see stunning side view here) from Annáy Millinery London
White straw slice with green hydrangea trim from Brisbane based Marilyn Van den Berg Millinery
Beautiful detail and texture on this pale grey design from New Zealand milliner Claire Hahn
Lace covered vertial straw disc hat with leather twist from Irish brand Montgomery Milinery
Black and white houndstooth straw button percher with sequins and feathers by Chris Mullane Millinery
Elegant silver straw boater with pearls and black & white button percher from Myra van de Korput
Black and red straw halo hat with red flowers from Aussie Brand Neigh Millinery

And from Country Peonies Millinery in Queensland, this whimsical pink percher with leather floral trim.It’s such a fun and happy hat!

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Interested to buy a royal palace? There’s one for sale in Sweden 

New portrait of Prince Daniel released this week by the Swedish royal court on the occasion of his 44th birthday.

Clarence House shared this sweet photo yesterday in celebration of Prince Harry’s 33rd birthday.