Poll: Favourite Royal Hat of 2014

After launching yesterday’s poll for the least favourite royal hat last year, it is time to turn the tables around and decide on which one was your favourite.  Please click on each of the following twelve  photos to link back to the original post with larger photos and information about each hat. Your finalists for best royal hat of 2014 are, in random order:

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1. Queen Máxima’s boysenberry upturned hat  2. Princess Haya’s black and white vertical hat  
3. Crown Princess Mary’s purple pillbox

Duchess of Cornwall, June 17, 2014 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats  Crown Princess Victoria, June 8, 2014 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats  Queen Máxima, May 26, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats

4. Duchess of Cornwall’s pale blue picture hat  5. Crown Princess Victoria’s retro rose headpiece  
6. Queen Máxima’s black and white picture hat

 Duchess of Cambridge, April 20, 2014 in Jane Taylor | The Royal Hats Blog  Queen Máxima, August 30, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats  Queen Elizabeth, June 14, 2014 in Angela Kelly | Royal Hats

7. Duchess of Cambridge’s grey percher hat   8. Queen Máxima’s natural straw slice hat   
9. Queen Elizabeth’s white and royal blue hat

Countess of Wessex, June 19, 2014 in Jane Taylor| Royal Hats  Queen Máxima, June 24, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats

 10. Countess of Wessex’s black hat with bows 11. Queen Máxima’s burgundy picture hat  
12. Princess Haya’s white cocktail hat

Everyone is able to vote once every 24 hours- this daily vote enables you to vote for multiple hats at a time. The poll will remain open until next Friday, January 16 at midnight GMT and we will celebrate the results next weekend. Happy voting!

Please click on each photo to link back to the original post with additional information and photo sources

Royal Hats this Year: The Netherlands Part II

Royal Hats Year In Review 2014Queen Máxima of the Netherlands is one of the most frequent royal hat wearers and this year, she kept us on our toes with her bold millinery. Please click on each photo to link to its original post which will contain larger views and detailed information on each hat. Note that while Queen Maxima did repeat a number of hats this year, each of these hats will appear below just once (usually, the most recent outing).

1. Queen Máxima, January 20, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 2. Queen Máxima, January 23, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 3. Queen Máxima, February 12, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 4. Queen Máxima, March 12, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

5. Queen Máxima, March 22, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 6.  Queen Máxima, March 26, 2014  | Royal Hats 7. Queen Máxima, March 27, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 8. Queen Máxima, April 2, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

9. Queen Máxima, April 4, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 10. Queen Máxima, April 5, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 11. Queen Máxima, April 8, 2014 | Royal Hats 12. Queen Máxima, April 15, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

13. Queen Máxima, April 26, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 14. Queen Máxima, May 4, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 15. Queen Máxima, May 6, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 16. Queen Máxima, May 13, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

17. Queen Máxima, May 16, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 18. Queen Máxima, May 26, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 19. Queen Máxima, May 27, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 20. Queen Máxima, May 28, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

21. Queen Máxima, June 24, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 22. Queen Máxima, June 25, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 23. Queen Máxima, August 30, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 24. Queen Máxima, September 3, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

25. Queen Máxima, September 12, 2014 | Royal Hats 26. Queen Máxima, September 14, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 27. Queen Máxima, September 16, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 28. Queen Máxima, September 30, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

29. Queen Máxima, October 1, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 30. Queen Máxima, October 15, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 31. Queen Máxima, October 15, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 32. Queen Máxima, October 29, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

33. Queen Máxima, October 31, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 34. Queen Máxima, November 3, 2014 | Royal Hats 35. Queen Máxima, November 4, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 36. Queen Máxima, November 10, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 

37. Queen Máxima, November 13, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 38. Queen Máxima, November 21, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats 39. Queen Máxima, December 4, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats

Are there any hats here you nominate for Favourite Royal Hat of 2014? Adversely, are there any you feel compelled to name among your least favourite?

Queen Máxima Opens Exhibition

Yesterday, Queen Máxima opened an exhibition at the Groninger Museum entitled “”The Secret of Dresden”. For this event, she topped her chocolate suit with a large felt hat in the same shade. The large brim of the hat was upturned on one side and the squared crown was slightly flared at the top. It is a hat with very strong lines that Máxima carries off very well. A monochrome outfit such as this can be difficult to pull off but the open neck of the suit and the pearl jewelry lightened the look. If this somber-hued ensemble was chosen as a quiet nod to Queen Fabiola’s funeral (which I suspect it was), it was a beautiful choice for Máxima to make.

Queen Máxima, December 12, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats  Queen Máxima, December 12, 2014 in Fabienne Delvigne | Royal Hats

Designer: Fabienne Delvigne
Previously Worn: March 11, 2014November 26, 2013March 11, 2010Nov 17, 2007

Photos from PPE and PPE

Dutch Monarchs Award Military Order

King Willem-Alexander awarded the Military Order of William to Major Gijs Tuinman during a ceremony in The Hague today. Queen Máxima joined to watch the event, dressed in a new oyster velvet turban hat. We have not seen her in a true turban for a long while and I suspect the choice of this hat today was more about function (keeping warm on a blustery day) than about appearance. We can’t totally dismiss aesthetics, however, and I thought this hat coordinated very well with Máxima’s neutral ensemble. For a winter hat, I think this turban is great. What do you think?

Queen Máxima, December 4, 2014 | Royal Hats Queen Máxima, December 4, 2014 | Royal Hats

Designer: I suspect Fabienne Delvigne
Previously Worn: This hat is new

Photos from Patrick van Katwijk and Albert Philip Van Der Werf via Corbis

Queen Máxima Opens Joure Community School

Queen Máxima was in Joure today to open the new Community School, a collaborative project that includes primary schools, a childcare organization, social welfare supports and a center for the arts. For this opening, Queen Máxima unearthed a wonderful hat we haven’t seen since 2006! In black felt, this hat features a lengthwise crease down the center of the crown, a wide brim that is slightly turned up on the side and a slim spray of black feathers. It is a fantastic hat on Máxima that paired exceptionally well with her graphic dress; I am so so glad she decided to bring it back into circulation. What do you think of this chic hat?

Designer: Fabienne Delvigne
Previously Worn: March 16, 2006

Photos from Patrick van Katwijk and Robin Utrecht/Pool via Corbis