Hat, lampshade, whatever.  Astrid, you're the best!

PHOTO CREDITS: PPE/Nieboer

As per usual, Astrid brought out the Savoy-Aosta Tiara tonight.  Still a lovely piece -- and I'm actually starting to warm up to the dress, too!

PHOTO CREDITS: PPE

Belgian lampshade numero uno of the day!  But heck, it's Astrid at a wedding -- we're really just lucky that she only wore one hat instead of two!

PHOTO CREDITS: PPE

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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I know this is going to be really hard to believe, but I got e-mails from quite a few of you hatters about this gorgeous little masterpiece.

ASTRID.  What the heck?  This is rivaling the famous two-hat one-hat wedding debacle in terms of sheer ridiculousness.  I mean, when you're pairing up feathers that even nature wouldn't put together, you know you're in the danger zone.  And she can't even see properly with those feathers in her eye.  For the love of Pete...

PHOTO CREDITS: PPE

Princess Astrid continues to be the Princess Anne of Belgium, doesn't she?  Love a girl who can rock a uniform!

(Sidenote: the dude on the left is Prince Joachim, Astrid and Lorenz's eighteen-year-old son.  He's been away at school in England.  Unfortunately, it's starting to look like he may not have inherited the princely hotness of his older brother, Amadeo.  Oh, well -- there's always time for latent hunkiness to bloom!)

Photo Credits: Belga

HRH The Crown Princess of Sweden and Mr. Daniel Westling
June 19, 2010

Well, kids, yesterday we partied hardy in the wedding live posts, and today we get to have a tiara fiesta!  I've compiled all of the tiara entries for the royal guests at Crown Princess Victoria's wedding to Daniel Westling (now Prince Daniel) in this entry.

The wedding, of course, took place in Stockholm yesterday.  The couple has been together since 2002, when Daniel became Victoria's personal trainer.  Love blossomed, and on their wedding day, Daniel became royal.  During their balcony appearance, Victoria thanked the people of Sweden for giving her a prince.

And now, we'll all just have to wait to see how long it takes before the pitter-patter of little royal feet are heard in Haga Palace!

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I do love the Savoy-Aosta Tiara on Princess Astrid, and I even love the way she coordinated the diamonds on her head with the crystal dragonflies on her dress.  She looks elegant and not wacky!  That's an achievement!

One problem though ... her dress is too short!  Click below for the full view...

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HRH The Prince of Asturias and Miss Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano
May 22, 2004

Only a week after Crown Prince Frederik married Mary Donaldson in Denmark, Prince Felipe of Spain tied the knot with journalist Letizia Ortiz in Madrid.  Theirs was the first wedding of a member of the Spanish royal family to take place in Madrid since the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Princess Ena of Battenberg in 1906.  That wedding was marred by an assassination attempt on the royal couple and the tragic deaths of several bystanders -- this one, thankfully, went more smoothly, although it was a cloudy, rainy day in the Spanish capital.

There were a few controversies, however, about Felipe's choice of bride.  Letizia, a journalist who covered the September 11th attacks in New York and the Iraq War, will be the first commoner to be queen of Spain.  She also had previously been briefly married and divorced.  However, because her first wedding was a civil rather than religious one, the Catholic Church did not recognize it, and she was free to marry Felipe.

Felipe and Letizia have become quite a working team since their wedding, frequently appearing together on royal engagements.  They have also had two daughters, Infanta Leonor (born in 2005) and Infanta Sofia (born in 2007).  Leonor is expected to become queen of Spain in her own right one day -- that is, if her parents don't provide her with a baby brother!

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HRH The Crown Prince of Denmark and Miss Mary Donaldson
May 14, 2004

Our last major tiara wedding before Crown Princess Vic's big day was the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and Tasmanian-born Mary Elizabeth Donaldson.  The two met during the Sydney Olympics in 2000, fell in love, and got hitched four years later.

Frederik and his Aussie bride have two children: Prince Christian (who will one day be king) and Princess Isabella, the first Danish princess born in a generation.  Mary has transformed from an everyday girl to a glamorous crown princess, and this wedding was definitely high on the glamour factor as well: we've got more than thirty tiaras on parade here, many of which are brand-new to the blog.  A good trial run for Victoria's wedding, no doubt!  Enjoy!

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