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








































