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This Week’s Extras

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Queen Sonja visited Svalbard on Thursday to meet those impacted by the December avalanche. Her snowflake printed faux fur cap was a great hat on her for this visit (Royal House of Norway)

Queen Sonja, January 7, 2016 | Royal Hats

Zara Philips in three striking hats at the Magic Millions races in Australia this week (Daily Mail)

Adorable photo of Princess Josephine and Prince Vincent released for their fifth birthdays (Danish Monarchy)

British milliner Rachel Trevor Morgan has designed a limited edition brooch in support of brain tumour research. At just £10.00, it’s a fun royal hat related purchase. (Rachel Trevor Morgan Millinery)

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 Don’t miss the annual video review of the Swedish Royal’s past year (SVT)

Norwegian Television has released a seven part documentary on the occasion of the King and Queen’s silver jubilee. While in Norwegian, there is great historical footage to be seen. (NRK)

A certain young prince started school this week. While he arrived without a hat, his wee royal rucksack was all kinds of adorable (Kensington Palace)

This Week’s Extras

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The Swedish royal family attended a gala at the Swedish Academy last week. Crown Princess Victoria repeated the jewelled hair ornament we’ve seen her wear before (PPE)

The Norwegian royals attended church together on Christmas Day. Queen Sonja wore a brown Homburg hat. (Seher)

Princess Hisako of Takamado repeated a smart green hat to watch a women’s soccer game (Getty)

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Great Christmas video clip from the Norwegian Crown Prince, Princess and family (NRK)

Lovely new photo from the Jordanian royal family (Queen Rania)

Interview with Princess Alexandra of Hanover and her passion for figure skating (ISU)

Sweet photo of Prince Nicolas of Sweden’s first encounter with Santa Claus and Princess Leonore in adorable Christmas frocks previously worn by her mum (Princess Madeleine and Svenskdam)

A a wonderful interview with Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco with their twins (Vorsten TV). Photographer Christopher Morris also shared some wonderful snaps taken of the family on National Day.

And finally, take an hour to enjoy this interesting documentary about the history of the Queen’s annual Christmas message (BBC)

Best New Royal Hat of 2015: Luxembourg and Norway

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After looking at the royal hats worn by Belgian and Danish royals in our quest to find the Best New Royal Hat of 2015, we turn our attention today to entries from Luxembourg and Norway. While even the monarchs in these two nations are not frequent hat wearers, there were a number of new pieces that the Grand Duchess, Queen and other princesses débuted this year. I have continued my editorial hand here, omitting a number of hats (the Grand Duchess’ two pillboxes here and here; Princess Claire’s spiky cocktail hat and Princess Alexandra’s headband; Princess Mette-Marit’s fascinator and these funeral hats) from the pollfor streamlining purposes. Click on any of the photos to jump back to original posts to see additional description and detail of the hats.

A reminder that the hats with the most votes across this semifinal will move forward to the final face off. If you don’t think any of these hats are worthy of the title of Best of 2015, save your vote (or take another look at the Belgian or Danish polls).  The next poll will be up tomorrow.

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Princess Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

  1.Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, June 23, 2015 in Philip Treacy | Royal Hats   2.Princess Stèphanie, June 17, 2015 | Royal Hats   3.Princess Stèphanie, June 23, 2015 | Royal Hats

Princess Claire and Princess Tessy of Luxembourg

4. Princess Claire, June 23, 2015 | Royal Hats  5.Princess Tessy, June 23, 2015 | Royal Hats

Queen Sonja of Norway

 6.Queen Sonja, March 18, 2015 | Royal Hats   7.Queen Sonja, April 10, 2015 | Royal Hats   8.Queen Sonja, May 17, 2015 | Royal Hats

9.Queen Sonja, May 27, 2015 | Royal Hats  10.Queen Sonja, September 23, 2015 | Royal Hats   11.Queen Sonja, December 10, 2015 | Royal Hats

Are any of these hats deserving of the title of Best New Royal Hat of 2015? Voting will remain open until January 1, 2016- you can vote for multiple hats once per day.

Norwegian Royals Attend Nobel Peace Prize

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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today in Oslo and as always, the Norwegian royal family was in attendance. Queen Sonja repeated her deep teal wool rounded pillbox trimmed with a wide stripe of embroidered silk ribbon that encircles the piece and a flat bow at the back. The shape of this pillbox is still a little too rounded and bulbous for my taste but the colour is so fantastic on Sonja, the odd shape hardly matters.

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Previously Worn: May 9, 2015

Crown Princess Mette-Marit eschewed a hat once again, opting to repeat her gold headband. To tie in with her black accessories, she wove the headband with a black velvet ribbon that extended at the bottom to wrap around the base of her low ponytail. This integration of headpiece and hairstyle gets bonus points from me… but that doesn’t negate the sad fact that once again, she wore a headband to one of the biggest millinery events of the Norwegian royal year. Hop over to this post to see the other four ways she has worn this headband in the past.

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What do you think of this pair of royal headwear today in Oslo?
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Norwegian Royals Open Parliament

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King Harald opened the 160th session of Norwegian parliament yesterday with a speech from the throne. He was accompanied by Crown Prince Haakon and Queen Sonja, who stuck to her usual uniform of black and red for this event. Her hat was an interesting design of two distinct elements- a red close fitting cap style crown and a high, diagonal black brim. While I’m always happy to see Sonja stepping away from her usual bowlers and pillboxes, there’s something about the two elements of that hat that seem uncomfortably out of sync. You can see the hat more clearly here during its last outing.

Queen Sonja, October 2, 2015 | Royal Hats

Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: October 2, 2010

Photos from NTB scanpix via The Royal House of Norway