to this day in 1981 when Zara Tindall was christened at Buckingham Palace.
Queen Elizabeth matched her purple and blue printed silk dress with wore an oversize rounded pillbox hat. Pleated fabric covered the hat and it was trimmed on top with similar ruffles to those on the neckline of her dress. Zara’s pateral grandmother, Anne Phillips, wore a pale green dupioni silk turban trimmed with bias stripes of the grey floral on her dress. The Queen Mother wore one of her signature veiled capulet hats covered in the same spring green floral as her caped frock and trimmed with a matching ostrich plume around the back.
True to form, Princess Anne’s finely woven yellow straw hat with curved brim, simply trimmed with a rolled silk hatband tied in a side bow (likely made by John Boyd), is still worn from time to time.
Princess Anne on July 27, 1981 and on a visit to Cumbria on July 17, 2013
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to March 1982 when the Queen Mother attended the Cheltenham Races in this fantastic woven pink turban with silk flowers.
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