"GASP!  Ladies, have you SEEN the amount of plumage in this castle today???"

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A very merry unbirthday to One!

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St. Paul's was simply lousy with royals today!  Let's get this Jubilee party started, hatters!

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Time to have a boat parade in the freezing cold rain, everybody!  Good thing the ladies brought their hats along...

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HM and Kate teamed up again today for a visit to various sites in Leicester to kick off the Queen's Diamond Jubilee tour of the nation.  (Prince Phil was on the team, too, but for some reason I can't even fathom, the photographers didn't pay him too much attention today, ha.  Bet he LOVED it!)

HM's wearing a repehat today, last seen when she held court in a courtroom a year ago.  But Kate brought out a new topper just for us!

And I, for one, absolutely love it!  I mean, you all know how I feel about a structured beret!  Something about this '40s retro chic look really works on Kate.  I even love the little monochrome felt flower.  (If you want to rate her entire outfit, head over here to Cambridge Chic!)

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Yet another of these Queen Alexandra-style chapeaux from Kate this Christmas -- I still don't like it, sorry, everybody.  But this one in particular is really different from various angles.  Behold:

Unflattering angle.

More flattering angle.

Most flattering angle of all.  Still just not a huge fan, though.

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*deep breath*

I hate to throw shade at someone on her first Remembrance Sunday outing, but I can't help it.  I hate this.  I seriously, legitimately hate this hat.  Why is it smaller than a real hat but bigger than a fascinator?  Why is it perched so weirdly?  What's with the huge-non bow?  And why does the whole thing make me think of cavaliers, musketeers, and the English Civil War?

Sigh.  Better luck next time, Katie C.

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Yet another royal rite of passage for Kate Cambridge -- the regal hard hat!  She and William joined the lovely Mary and Fred in Denmark today to highlight the continuing problems with famine in Africa.  Love when a hattery moment can help remind us of what's really important...

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Start your engines, hatters -- Katie Cambridge is out and about again, going red at yet another friend's wedding.  At first glance I thought she'd recycled her maple leaf fascinator (well, yesterday was the first day of autumn, after all), but no, this one's quite different.

Eh, overall, I'm a little underwhelmed.  Fascinators like these are a dime a dozen at a British wedding.  Thoughts?

Learned something new this week -- apparently Chuck 'n Cams aren't the only royals who use their Scottish titles in Scotland.  Who knew?  So, for those who recoil at Kate's Duchess title: today, for a few Scottish hours, you get a Countess.  Enjoy!

As for the hat: so far, I think everyone but me loves this.  Let's face it, kids: it's a potato chip.  A floral potato chip, but a potato chip nonetheless.  (Pardon me, Brits: a potato crisp.)  Insert "bet you can't eat just one" or "once you pop, you can't stop" jokes here!

And now I'm hungry.

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