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Danish Royal Family Host Finnish State Visit

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President Sauli Niinistö of Finland and his wife, Jenni Haukio arrived in Copenhagen this morning for a two day state visit to Denmark.

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Queen Margrethe wore the white fur trimmed flat pillbox-esque hat she wore in February for the sign language bible release, and for her Ruby Jubilee last year.

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Mrs. Haukio wore a small cream rosette looped and feathered fascinator. She seems a fan of the fascinator- she also wore one for the first day of her state visit to Norway last October.

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Crown Princess Mary repeated the Philip Treacy burgundy felt cloche with silk bow she’s worn seven times before (most recently at Queen Margrethe’s Ruby Jubilee last year). Princess Marie wore a new bandeau headpiece of curling black organdie ribbon and feathers. Princess Benedikte wore a turquoise felt stylised trilby with extended brim around the front.

This short video of Queen Margrethe, Prince Henrik, President Niinistö and Mrs. Haukio  arriving at the Palace also shows some great hat footage. I thought it was a pretty predictable hat day by the Danes today. What did you think? Which hat was your favourite?

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Danish Royals Open Aquarium

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Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik attend the opening of The Blue Planet aquarium today. The new aquarium, built on Amager coast in Taarnby, Copenhage, is Northern Europe’s largest, housing over 20,000 fish and other sea creatures. Margrethe repeated her infamous blue Teletubby hat,  a hat best left at the bottom of the ocean in my opinion.

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Funeral of Princess Lilian

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The funeral of Princess Lilian of Sweden occurred today in Stockholm. The Swedish Royal Family and Queen Margrethe of Denmark attended the service to celebrate and remember her life.

Queen Silvia wore a lovely black hat with rolled brim and curled ribbon

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Princess Victoria wore simple, unadorned but very elegant Garbo hat.

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Princess Madeleine, who attended with her fiance Chris O’Neill, wore a black pillbox with bow and net trim

Queen Margrethe of Denmark wore the same wool hat with fur brim she wore to visit the Royal Life Guards earlier this month, but replaced the red button detail with an ivory one.

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The King’s three sisters, Princess Margaretha,  Princess Birgitta, and Princess Désirée, seen at the right of this photo, also wore black hats as a part of their mourning dress.

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Sofia Hellqvist, longtime girlfriend of Prince Carl Philip, also attended. While not officially a Swedish Royal, her attendance at this event seems to indicate she has become a member of this family. She wore an unembellished black bumper hat.

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Queen Margrethe Opens Military Exhibition

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Queen Margrethe attended an exhibition opening today at Tøjhusmuseet, a military history museum in Slotsholmen (the historical center of Copenhagen that houses Danish Parliament and Christiansborg Palace). She wore a rusty brown beret, obviously made to coordinate with a suit in the same colour. It’s not the first colour I’d pick for Margrethe, but it looked great on her. The black band and bow around the beret crown is a lovely added touch, don’t you think?

UPDATE: We saw this hat again in November 2013 and in natural light, the colour is actually a deep oxblood red.

Photo from PPE