Get out your champers and your party poppers, hatters -- it's time to celebrate a heck of a hattery year!

Chin chin!  It's that time again, everyone -- our countdown of the Maddest Hatters of 2011!  I'm going to kick start the fun, but I want to hear your nominations in the comments, too.  Let's get this party started, shall we?

And the winners are...

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All right, hatters, you know what time it is!  Drumroll, please!

That's right -- slap on your black-tie attire, pour yourself a glass o'champers, and settle in for the Mad Hattery Awards of 2010!  (No, seriously, hurry up -- King CG is clearly waiting on you!)

We've moved the festivities inland from last year's cruise-ship do, but that just means more room for all of us and the maddest hatters of the year!  So, without further adieu, let's get the party started!

And the winners are...

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Happy New Year, Mad Hatters!  While I'm sure you're all quite busy enjoying the bubbly and kissing your sweethearts at midnight, I thought a little hattery fun might be in order tonight as well.

(Well, this is Mad Hattery -- I'm sure you're all actually lounging on cruise ships in your Sunday best, wearing construction helmets and sipping champers just like Queen Silvia up there.  You are, aren't you?  I knew it!)

Anyway: everyone's doing year-in-review posts right now (heck, I just did two: The Top Ten British Royal Events of the Decade and 2009's Royal Romance Review -- check 'em out!), so I thought we'd join right in.

And so, without further adieu, I present: the Mad Hattery Awards of 2009, recognizing the wackiest, zaniest, and most completely out-of-control hattery worn this year!

And the winners are (drumroll please)...

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Thanks a million to Marilyn Braun and, with greatest respect, HM The Queen, for giving the blog an award!

According to both HM and Marilyn, this award, the "Excessively Diverting Blog Award," is awarded for the following reasons: "Started by the blogging team at Jane Austen Today the "aim of the Excessively Diverting Blog Award is to acknowledge writing excellence in the spirit of Jane Austen’s genius in amusing and delighting readers with her irony, humor, wit, and talent for keen observation. Recipients will uphold the highest standards in the art of the sparkling banter, witty repartee, and gentle reprove."

Thanks to both "Lillibet" and Marilyn for the lovely award! Now, I've got to be a good blogging citizen and pass it along to seven others...

1. The Royal Forums Blog, the newest part of The Royal Forums site. I'm a contributor there, but I'm only one among a whole slate of bloggers who provide great coverage of the world's royalty. For witty repartee, be sure to check out the fashion and entertainment posts!

2. The Kate Middleton Report, which always has the news on where the royal paramour has most recently popped up.

3. British Royal Wedding, which earns the "humor and wit" tag for the recent post about William's RAF initiation, with a photoshopped drinking straw, alone.

4. The Royal Twist, which provides great coverage of Scandanavian royals and other royal houses.

5. Merry Royals, Maricar's awesome royal blog.

6. The Raucous Royals, which has scandalous and delicious coverage of history's most interesting royal figures.

7. Danish Royal Watchers, which has fun and informative coverage of the royals from Denmark, especially those cuties Christian and Isabella.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled hattery coverage...