Members of the Norwegian royal family and Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands attended ski and ski jumping races at Holmenkollen today. Nearly everyone was seen in a woolly knit ski hat or headband. I thought the hats worn by Princess Ingrid and Prince Sverre (featuring the Norwegian flag) were particularly smart. Hats aside, it’s nice to see royals having great fun together.
Photos from Scanpix NTB via The Royal House of Norway and Patrick van Katwijk via Dutch Photo Press
As the Olympics draw to a close this weekend, I thought we should look back at some of the royal hats we have seen during the Sochi games.
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, Prince Albert of Monaco and Alexandra of Hanover attend the
downhill run of the men’s alpine skiing super combined event on February 14, 2014
Alexandra of Hanover and her brother Pierre Casiraghi at the men’s super combined
competition on February 14, 2012; Prince Albert of Monaco at an event on February 12, 2014
King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway at the Women’s 12.5 km Mass Start competition on February 17, 2014
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands watching the men’s Snowboard Halfpipe qualification on February 11, 2014
King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden at cross country ski events on February 15 & 16, 2014
Photos from KCS Presse via Corbis; Leonhard Foeger/Reuters/Corbis; KCS Presse/Splash News/Corbis; KCS Presse via Corbis; Kay Neitfeld via Corbis; Jens Buettner/EPA/Corbis; Hendrik Schmidt/EPA/Corbis; and KCS Presse via Corbis
Last Friday, Queen Sonja opened the exhibition “Christian Krohg and the Times of the Kristiania Bohemians” in Copenhagen. For this event, she repeated her black sequined beret-style brimless hat. In the first photo, the hat looks a little squashed but all seems restored in the second photo. This is a sharp, angular hat but I think that makes it interesting and it seems well suited to Queen Sonja. What do you think?
Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: Dec 11, 2013; Dec. 10, 2008
Photos from Lars H. Larsen via Billed Bladet and Kunstforeningen
Queen Sonja of Norway visited the Norwegian Folk Museum in Oslo today to see the exhibition “1814: The Game of Denmark and Norway“. She wore a lovely black wool velvet pork pie hat with pinwheel flower trim that matched the lapel on her charcoal suit. I thought the whole look was very chic and really liked the shape and scale of this hat on her. What do you think?
Designer: unknown
Previously worn: I believe this hat is new
Photos from Stella via Kjell Arne Tottland/TV2
King Herald Queen Sonja of Norway hosted the Nobel Peace Prize award yesterday. Queen Sonja repeated one of her more interesting hats- a hard shelled black brimless hat with pointed crown and sequinned sides (see a better photo of it during a previous wearing here). I am not usually a fan of hats with pointed crowns but this hat, which seems like a variation of a beret, somehow works. At the very least, it’s interesting and I think the sequined side of the hat is great fun and makes the simple shape of this hat look a little more formal. What do you think?
Designer: unknown
Previously Worn: Dec. 10, 2008;
Photos from Svenskdam
Royal Hats 