{"id":42686,"date":"2011-06-05T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/?p=42686"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:51:58","slug":"kate-middleton-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/archive\/kate-middleton-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Middleton\u2019s fascinator hats \u2014\u00a08 looks to love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kate Middleton has been rocking the fantastic fascinator hats for years \u2014 long before the royal wedding put her hat style in the spotlight in 2011. And although she’s now super-mom to Pippa, James, and Kate, she still manages to present herself with beauty, elegance, and style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To us, the Duchess of Cambridge’s signature piece will always be the fascinator hat<\/a> (well, that and nude pantyhose). These were the toppers that made a commoner look fit to be a princess, and made us fall in love with her enviable style. Let\u2019s pay respect to the best of Kate\u2019s princess-worthy hats.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pretty in purple<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a rare public appearance, Middleton stepped out to the wedding of Nicholas Van Custern at London\u2019s Guard Chapel in 2009. Wills was there too, but we hardly noticed him as this hat stole all the attention.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Read next: How to find and wear trending hats for fall <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fabulous feathers <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

What better to adorn one\u2019s head at an official event than feathers? If our boyfriend was getting inducted into the Royal Garter (like Middleton\u2019s was back in 2008), we would have worn exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Never better than navy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re beginning to see a trend here of Middleton stealing attention at other people\u2019s weddings. In January of 2011, she did it again at the nuptials of Harry Aubrey-Fletcher and Sarah Louise Stourton.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Royal in the making<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Another wedding, another insane hat. In October 2010, Middleton and Wills began to stir up rumors of their own engagement when they showed up to a friend\u2019s wedding. With a topper like that, it wasn\u2019t hard for people to see her as a future royal.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cream dream<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2006, she wore this feathered confection to the wedding of future in-law Camilla Parker Bowles’s daughter Laura.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rosy in red<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dressed in the color of love, Middleton donned this rose topper at the wedding of David Jardine-Paterson and Emilia D’Erlanger in Devon, England, on April 17, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Simply super<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Middleton fulfilled her first royal duty in February when she launched a lifeboat in Anglesey, Wales with William. She may have been new to the procedure, but she kept her cool with a familiar friend: a gorgeous topper.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mom style<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here, Middleton looks like she’s walked straight out of a British novel. She looks both sweet and elegant in soft pink with angelic kiddos in tow. Surely, she and those kids smell like roses, too. For more on her maternal style, see Mom style as told by Kate Middleton<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kate Middleton has been rocking the fantastic fascinator hats for years \u2014 long before the royal wedding put her hat style in the spotlight in 2011. And although she’s now super-mom to Pippa, James, and Kate, she still manages to present herself with beauty, elegance, and style. To us, the Duchess of Cambridge’s signature piece… Read More »Kate Middleton\u2019s fascinator hats \u2014\u00a08 looks to love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[239,348],"class_list":["post-42686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-trends","tag-celebrity-style","tag-hats"],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":125926,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/kate-middleton-hat-collage-300x150.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1664009,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions\/1664009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebudgetfashionista.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}