Our favorite Canadian maple leaf (who is expecting her second little leaflet -- congratulations!) wore her default Royal Winter Event hat today for church.  But it's a flattering topper, so I don't mind at all.

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Lady Sarah's rocking the same hat look she's been wearing for a while now, but I can't blame her, really -- she seems like a no-nonsense kind of Windsor, and when a hat works, well, it works.  (But ... one more wearing of a little saucer like this, and I may have to declare a moritorium, black-beret-style!)

As for Autumn, who's hiding behind her hubs in this pic -- from what I can see, I like the brim/hate the round crown. Eh.

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Peter and Autumn!  Hooray!  LOVE our favorite Canadian's choice of chapeau for the service -- just wacky enough, but elegant at the same time.  I still think HM needs to knight him and rope them into doing official duties ASAP.

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Our favorite little Canadian maple leaf chose silvery-gray-purple for her wedding ensemble -- and some rosettes for the fascinator.

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Get ready, everyone ... it's time for a hattery debut!

It's the newest little Windsor lady, Savannah Phillips, daughter of Peter and Autumn!  How adorable is she in her little pink and yellow hat!  So cute!

Her adorable mom was also along at the horse trials, pushing the stroller:

Autumn is still the queen of casual hattery in the BRF ... can't quite tell what's on this baseball cap, though.  A tiger?

Anyway -- to reward her excellent hattery efforts, Autumn got a little break from pushing the pram:

Aww ... proud royal grandparents!

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Hey, everybody, look who it is!  (No, not figure-skating Albert Einstein -- on the right!)

Our little Canadian maple leaf has returned to us, only weeks after giving birth to her little royal leaflet!  According to the press, Peter and Autumn brought baby Savannah with them to Norfolk this weekend to meet her great-granny, and a little side trip to church was on the docket.

Autumn's repeating a very good hat here -- the one she wore the last time she was on the blog, in December 2009!  I can't believe it's been a year since we've seen her in hattery!  Stop by more often, Phillipses!

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Oh, so much better than Friday, Autumn!  As far as furry hats go, I quite like this one.  She really looks like she fits in with the Windsor women wearing this particular topper, doesn't she?

Autumn, you look like you just came from filming a music video with the Black Eyed Peas.  What in the world has happened to my favorite little Canadian Maple Leaf??

An early Christmas treat: it's Zara Phillips, out at a wedding in Canterbury, wearing a lovely fascinator!  I quite like this one, with its silvery color and the interesting shape and embellishments.  But if it looks a little familiar, it's because it has been seen on one of the Windsor women before:

Here's Autumn Kelly joining the royals for Easter at Windsor just before her 2008 wedding to Zara's brother, Peter, wearing the same fascinator.  I suppose that the sisters-in-law who hat around together stay together?

My favorite newlyweds are back from Hong Kong!

I'm serious ... someone should corral them and give them a baronetcy or something tout de suite. They are adorable. I want to see them out on the royal stump. Even workhorse Princess Anne deserves someone to pick up the slack occasionally.

And Autumn, at her first family Christmas at Sandringham, is fitting in with the royal hat trend of the day: the beret. I like this one in principle, and I think she looks really cute, but I fear that our little Canadian Maple Leaf suffers from the same quandary that I do when sporting a similar hat style: what in the world are you supposed to do with your ears? Mine can look quite prominent when wearing certain hats, and this, I hate to say, is sort of doing the same for Autumn.

I think I would adore it if it were more structural and didn't fit down over her head the way this one does, if that makes any sense at all.