The St. Andrews sisters (not those Andrews sisters; the granddaughters of Ed and Kate Kent) made it to Trooping this year as well -- there's the younger of the two (and the only one of the family currently in the line of succession), Lady Amelia, on the right.  Looks like your basic white feather fascinator to me.

Spotting her elder sister, Lady Marina, however, takes a bit more work...

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The ladies of the St Andrews family went conservative for their cousin's wedding -- that's Marina in the gunmetal gray hat (her face is obscured by her brother, Lord Downpatrick). Wish she'd gone for something with a bit more flair -- this is sort of a snooze.  (Better picture of Marina's hat here.  The way it picks up the skirt detail does make it more interesting!)

Amelia's in what looks like -- dare I say it? -- the training version of a Beatrix cake hat. If this girl's going to be working that kind of hat territory in her blog debut, one of the European princes needs to snap her up as soon as she's of age -- we can't let that kind of hattery fade into obscurity! (The St Andrews family is Catholic, so Luxembourg princes -- heads up!)

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I have to say, the wonderful royal photographers in London have heard our repeated cries and provided us with far better close-up photos of minor royals this year, save three: Katharine Kent and one of her daughters-in-law, the Countess of St. Andrews, and (I think) one of the Countess's daughters -- I believe it's the teenaged royal I tentatively identified last year as Lady Marina-Charlotte Windsor.

You can just barely see (the alleged) Marina-Charlotte and Kate Kent in front of the column on the right, just to the right of the Waleses and Lady Helen Taylor.  Marina appears to have some sort of white feather fascinator on, and Lady Kent is wearing a blue beret of some sort.

Word on the street is that the Countess of St. Andrews is the first woman to the right of Katharine, wearing the large hat with what appears to be dark-colored flowers.  Really too bad on this one: it would be Sylvana's first appearance on the blog, and we need to talk all about her and her fascinating career as a professor of history at Cambridge sometime!

(So, if anyone comes up with any clearer photos of these three -- or of Lady Nicholas Windsor, who was supposedly also present -- please let us all know!)

Okay, I'm going to admit this outright: this is a rather educated guess on the identity of the young Kent granddaughter on the right.  Lady Marina-Charlotte, daughter of The Earl of St. Andrews, is sixteen.  I think her thirteen-year-old sister, Lady Amelia, is standing beside her in the unfocused group picture, with fourteen-year-old Flora Ogilvy perhaps next over in the pink fascinator?

(Five hundred photos of Prince Harry doing a weird bunny hop motion with his hands in the carriage, and five hundred of HM rubbing her nose, and this is all we get of the almost-never-seen Kent granddaughters.  I don't know, either, you guys.)

Anyway, this is the age you should be to properly wear a silly little feather fascinator: sixteen!  So kudos on the hat, Marina-Charlotte, if that really is who you are, and kudos also on positioning yourself right smack dab next to Prince Charles so you'd be in way more pictures than your sister or cousin.  Now that's royal ingenuity.  Welcome to the hattery madness!