Hats From The Past

Royal Hats Here are three royal hats worn on this day by three generations of the British royal family. While the timeline here covers sixty years, we still see iterations of these hat styles and shapes today.

Queen Mary, February 12, 1932

Queen Elizabeth in Kuwait, February 12, 1979

Princess Diana in India (wearing a Philip Somerville design), February 12, 1992

Photo from Getty as indicated

This Week’s Extras

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Princess Hisako of Takamado in a lovely pewter straw hat for her attendance at an environmental conference in Fukushima (Imperial Family of Japan)

The Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess bundled up in cozy hats during their visit to Nittedal this week (Royal House of Norway)

Last weekend, the Duke and Duchess of Vendôme joined former paratroopers for a commemorative mass (Noblesse et Royaute Blog)

Crown Princess Mary of Denmark went on field exercise with the Home Guard in Vordingborg (The Danish Monarchy)

King Carl Gustaf’s trusty fedora made another outing this week, this time at a seminar about salmon fishing (Swedish Royal Court)

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Prince Harry makes an amusing acting début at the opening ceremonies of the Rugby World Cup (Daily Mail) For brief but interesting video commentary on the unfolding championship, tune into Mike Tindall’s twitter account.

Royal Hats this Year: Denmark

Royal Hats Year In Review 2014Our look back through all the royal hats we saw in 2014 now turns attention to Denmark- here are all of the hats that graced Danish royal heads this year.  In cases where a hat was worn repeatedly 2014, it is shown here just once (usually, the most recent outing) and you can click on each hat to take you to the original post with larger views and detailed information.

Princess Benedikte

1. Princess Benedikte, Marh 17, 2014 | Royal Hats 2. Princess Benedikte, April 7, 2014 | Royal Hats 3. Princess Benedikte, July 13, 2014 | Royal Hats 4. Princess Benedikte, October 3, 2014 | Royal Hats 5. Princess Benedikte, October 7, 2014 | Royal Hats

Princess Elisabeth (#6) and Princess Marie (#7 and 8)

6. Princess Elisabeth, January 9, 2014 | Royal Hats 7. Princess Marie, March 17, 2014 | Royal Hats 8. Princess Marie, October 7, 2014 | Royal Hats

Crown Princess Mary

9. Crown Princess Mary, May 9, 2014 in Susanne Juul| Royal Hats 10. Crown Princess Mary, May 12, 2014 | Royal Hats 11. Crown Princess Mary, August 30, 2014 | Royal Hats 

12. Crown Princess Mary, September 5, 2014 | Royal Hats 13. Crown Princess Mary, September 17, 2014 | Royal Hats 14. Crown Princess Mary, October 7, 2014 | Royal Hats

Queen Margrethe

15. Queen Margrethe, January 9, 2014 | Royal Hats 16. Queen Margrethe, March 17, 2014 | Royal Hats 17. Queen Margrethe, March 9, 2014 | Royal Hats  18. Queen Margrethe, April 18, 2014 | Royal Hats 

19. Queen Margrethe, April 26, 2014 | Royal Hats 20. Queen Margrethe, April 27, 2014 | Royal Hats 21. Queen Margrethe, May 15, 2014 | Royal Hats 22. Queen Margrethe, May 14, 2014 | Royal Hats 

23. Queen Margrethe, June 18, 2014 | Royal Hats 24. Queen Margrethe, June 19, 2014 | Royal Hats 25. Queen Margrethe, June 20, 2014 | Royal Hats 26. Queen Margrethe, June 27, 2014 | Royal Hats 

27. Queen Margrethe, July 29, 2014 | Royal Hats 28. Queen Margrethe, September 1, 2014 | Royal Hats 29. Queen Margrethe, September 5, 2014 | Royal Hats 30. Queen Margrethe, September 3, 2014 | Royal Hats 

31. Queen Margrethe, September 23, 2014 | Royal Hats 32. Queen Margrethe, October 2, 2014 | Royal Hats 33. Queen Margrethe, November 18, 2014 | Royal Hats 34. Queen Margrethe, December 12, 2014 | Royal Hats

I suspect that there are hats in this group that are on your lists of favourite and least favourite royal hats of 2014. Which ones are they?