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Day 2 & 3 of Danish Late Summer Cruise

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Queen Margrethe continued her visit to Odsherred Municipality yesterday with stops at several museums and a converted fish market. She repeated her versatile natural straw hat, opting to place the turned down brim to the back and adding a hatband in the same plaid as her skirt. It’s a prim ensemble (very reminiscent of a school uniform) that ,I suppose, works for a cruise thanks to the nautical colour scheme.

Queen Margrethe, September 6, 2016 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe, September 6, 2016 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe, September 6, 2016 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: October 24, 2014; September 9 and 10, 2014; July 3, 2014; September 10, 2014; September 1, 2014; June 20, 2014; April 28, 2013; September 3, 2013; August 29, 2013;  June 4, 2013; August 30, 2013; September 5, 2012 June 9, 2011

Nautical hues continued today for stops in Favrskov Municipality with Queen Margrethe in a much repeated red straw hat. I don’t recall seeing it paired before with this navy dress and red jacket- the more streamlined pieces worked very well together and provided a wonderful backdrop for this hat (dare I say, giving it a new lease on life?). When it comes to Queenly nautical chic, this ensemble gets my vote.

Queen Margrethe, September 7, 2016 | Royal Hats

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Queen Margrethe, September 7, 2016 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: June 5, 2016; September 5, 2014; September 3, 2014; July 21, 2014; September 5, 2013; June 7, 2013; September 3, 2012;  May 25, 2011; June 7, 2011; November 6, 2009; July 23, 2009

What are your thoughts on these two nautically hued straw hats?

Photos from Liselotte Sabroe/Scanpix and Henning Bagger/Scanpix via The Danish Monarchy and Getty as indicated

Danish Queen Embarks on Summer Cruise

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Queen Margrethe set off today on the second leg of this year’s annual summer cruise around the islands of her country. Today’s itinerary included visits to Kongsøre Naval Station along with stops at Dragsholm Castle, an children’s educational art program, a manufacturing facility, Algade town center, a nursing care centre, an art museum and a former fish market all located in Odsherred Municipality.

For this busy day of events, Queen Margrethe repeated the red bumper hat she first wore back in May. Today’s better view of this piece show it to be a bumper design with wide cuff brim embellished with stitching around the brim edge and a flat patterned bow at the side. Seeing this hat in full confirmed my initial assessment that while it is not the most exciting of millinery designs, it tops a vibrant and balanced ensemble that looks great on Margrethe. This is one of the times when the whole picture works better than a hat on its own and I particularly like how the streamlined cut of the coat are enlivened by the high contrast pattern on Margrethe’s dress.

Danish Royals Take Up Summer Residence

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On Monday, Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik arrived in Aarhus on the royal yacht en route to their summer residence at Marselisborg Palace. Queen Margrethe repeated her fuchsia straw hat with white rosette trim and and navy floral double hat band. I can’t help also noticing that Prince Henrik sported a new but very distinguished looking goatee.

Queen Margrethe, June 27, 2016 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: June 3, 2016; August 31, 2015; June 26, 2015

We have seen this hat on Margrethe a few times but it’s still a lovely one on her, don’t you agree?

Photo from Kim Haugaard/Scanpix via the Danish Monarchy

This Week’s Extras

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Charming photos of Princess Anne watching her granddaughter, Mia Tindall, at a charity polo match last weekend. This came ahead of disappointing news for the Phillips family on Tuesday that Zara Tindall was not named to the British Equestrian Team for Rio 2016.

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Queen Margrethe handed out a military award yesterday in what looked like a new, white straw hat (Billed Bladet)

Interesting article about rising British millinery star, Laura Apsit Livens (The Lifestyle Edit)

Infanta Elena in her go-to fedoras at last Sunday’s Longines Global Champions Tour in Madrid. She wore a chocolate one the day before at a bullfight she watched with her son.

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Sweet photos of the Duke and Duchess of Parma with their family and newest member, Prince Carlos Enrique (Paris Match)

The Norwegian Monarchy released a new line of succession photo this week, showing it in comparison with the last one taken ten years ago (Royal House of Norway)

Queen Elizabeth sent her second tweet, a message of thanks for all the good wishes received for her recent birthday (British Monarchy)

Acclaimed Canadian journalist Peter Mansbridge interviewed Peter and Autumn Philips in the days leading up to the Queen’s 90th birthday. I had meant to share this earlier (my apologies) and while some of the interview’s relevance has passed, Autumn gives a glimpse of what it’s like for a foreigner to marry in to the British Royal Family that’s most interesting.

Last Week’s Extras Times Two

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Royal Hats This weekly feature was interrupted last weekend for Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday celebration. Hang on to your hats- there’s much news to catch up! 

The Swedish monarchs arrived in Bhutan on June 8 for a short state visit. Queen Silvia wore a floral headpiece for a banquet the first evening that looked to be made of real flowers. Part of the visit was more casual and saw the King wearing his trusty old fedora (Swedish Monarchy), brought out again last week for an interview (Svenskdam)

Queen Silvia, June 8, 2016 | Royal Hats

Princess Akiko of Mikasa was uncharacteristically casually dressed (complete with floppy hat) to plant rice with students of Kokugakuin University. Also, several members of the Imperial Family attended a memorial service for the late Prince Katsura (Imperial Family Of Japan)

King Harald and Crown Prince Haakon partook their annual inspection of the King’s Guard (Royal House of Norway)

Flora Ogilvy celebrated Midsummer in a romantic and retro floral turban (Zenouska Mowatt Instagram)

Princess Mary was in head-to-toe camouflage two weekends ago for Home Guard Land Exercises and a parade in Jutland, reviewed by Queen Margrethe in her red straw hat (Danish Monarchy).

The Danish Monarchy also released this throw-back photo to the mid 1980s of Prince Frederik and Prince Joachim wearing the hats of their secondary school, Øregaard Gymnasium

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The Danish Royals released a handsome new family photo (Danish Monarchy)

The Swedish royals released beautiful photographs of Prince Nicolas on the occasion of his first birthday here and here (Princess Madeleine Facebook). They also shared this wonderful video of the King and Queen’s wedding which took place 40 years ago, yesterday.

In all of the Ascot madness this week, I’m sure I have forgotten other tidbits of royal news. Please feel free to share them in the comments. 

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