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Sandown Park Racecourse: HRH The Princess Royal

Posted on March 11th, 2011 by Ella  |  27 Comments »

So, um ... I'm just going to leave this here and slowly, slowly back away...

PHOTO CREDITS: Alan Crowhurst/ Getty Images

Brasenose College, Oxford: HM The Queen

Posted on December 2nd, 2009 by Ella  |  7 Comments »

Brasenose College, Oxford: HM The Queen (2 Dec 2009)

HM's out in Oxford today to celebrate the quincentenary of the university's Brasenose College.  (Confession time: I totally had to look up exactly how many years a quincentenary marks -- it's 500.  I blame it on the fact that I'm American, and nothing we have here is that old.)

And she's brought out a hat we've seen fairly frequently to do it -- but the photographs from this outing provide a much closer look at the hat itself.  I really thought before that this hat was just made of your basic cloth material, but it looks from this angle like it's actually a leather-look fabric (or I suppose maybe actual leather -- she is a queen, after all, I think she can swing the expense).  Veeery interesting.  What do the rest of you make of this?