bringing you the very best in ridiculous royal hats
So, One's armed forces decided to throw One a bit of a party in honor of one's sixty years on the throne...
Fondant fish scales for a military event? Why not! Lesson of the year: if you're the Diamond Queen, you do what you want.
It's back-of-the-head hat time with Mette-Marit again ... I'm really starting to dislike these, probably mostly because she wears them so often. Time for a new trend?
PHOTO CREDITS: Chris Jackson/WireImage
Wow, that's a lot of gold brocade. I'm just going to leave it at that.
Also -- I think that's Marie-Chantal in the uber-dramatic purple chapeau behind Sonja. Haven't seen a clearer angle on that one yet, but I like what I see. (Watch it not even be her, LOL.)
PHOTO CREDITS: PPE
No surprise here -- a pillbox hat on Anne-Marie. I can see that she's going for classic with this shape, as she does so often, but I can't help but wish she'd mix things up a bit on the hattery front now and then.
PHOTO CREDITS: PPE
I feel like lately Sophie's been veering wildly between hats that are a little on the young side and hats that are way over on the matronly side ... and this looks like the latter to me. It's just a little too classic, maybe?
PHOTO CREDITS: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
At first I thought that we'd gotten a repe-hat from Princess Alexandra today -- such a rarity! -- but on second glance, I think it's just another variation on her standard: slightly exaggerated crown, normal-sized brim, and a little netting for the road.
As for Birgitte: she should just be glad that I ended my black beret moratorium a while back, because this velvety pillbox (which we first saw on Remembrance Sunday '09) is verging on jaunty at that angle.
PHOTO CREDITS: Indigo/Getty Images
Looks like Sil's jazzed up her ubiquitous black pillbox with some feathery foliage. I don't know, you guys -- I think sometimes a black pillbox hat just needs to be a black pillbox hat. Thoughts?
PHOTO CREDITS: Svenskdam
Wow. When did Mattel start making Barbie outfits for grown-ups?
PHOTO CREDITS: PPE
An old trusty from Birgitte Gloucester at today's anniversary service at St. Paul's -- but sans scrunchie this time! 
Much better without, IMO.
(P.S. -- yep, this is a service for the 300th anniversary of St. Paul's Cathedral, but I can hear all of you smarties shouting, "but it's way older than that!" And you're right! The first St. Paul's building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and the current building, a Christopher Wren design, replaced it in 1711. So, you know, it's a spring chicken, cathedral-wise!) 
PHOTO CREDITS: Chris Jackson/Getty Images
The York girls managed to evade most cameras today, but here we've got some video captures of their millinery madness. Looks to me like we've got a cream-colored pillbox on Beatrice, with some burgundy floral embellishment...
