We Asked a Milliner: The Best Royal-Wedding Hats and Notable Trends

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by Rebecca Sacks

April 29, 2011, 1:00 PM

Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images. Photo illustration by Hamish Robertson.If you can momentarily tear your eyes from the resplendent flesh-colored O affixed to the head of Princess Beatrice, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, please join us as we assess the astounding array of headgear at the royal wedding today.
There was hardly a dry eye and nary a bare head in the Abbey. The majority of headgear worn by royal attendees was designed by Irish milliner Philip Treacy. He made the Bea-tific ring (seen above) as well as the electric-blue canoe-shaped headpiece worn by Princess Beatrice’s younger sister, Eugenie. (We saw a similarly O’Keefe-esque look on English “It girl” Tara Palmer-Tomkinson.) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wore a straw-colored disc-shaped hat by Treacy, and posh Victoria Beckham topped off a dress of her own creation with a Treacy design, as did Princess Michael of Kent, Queen Anna-Marie of Greece, and Princess Mathilde of Belgium