Royal wedding style: The 5 wildest hats
WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 19: Oprah Winfrey arrives at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Ian West – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Calling a hat wild doesn’t mean it’s bad, necessarily. Sometimes, wild hats can even be good. We leave it to you to decide about these royal wedding hats.
When it comes to style across the pond especially for such a big event as the royal wedding, the first thing anyone thinks about is the hats. Granted, the fashion of the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle might change that, just because there were some amazing ensembles.
But there were also some absolutely bonkers hats. Now, we mean this in a mostly non-judgmental way — as we said above, wild could mean that it’s either a really good hat or a really bad hat.
Like it or not, though, these five chapeaus stole some of the show at the royal wedding.
WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 19: Prince and Princess Michael of Kent arrive at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Chris Radburn – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Princess Michael of Kent
This hat seems fairly standard when you look at the top part of it — large, tipped at an angle, round — but then you get to the giant flowers right by Princess Michael of Kent’s face, and you start to think that this hat deserves the wild descriptor, even if it’s in a very neutral tone.
WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 19: Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor (left) and Dan Snow arrive at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle before the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Gareth Fuller – WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor
This hat, worn by Lady Edwina Louise Grosvenor, is a much more modern hat, with no flowers of any kind. The shape of it is also … unique, reminding this writer of a very nice pink pie plate. Props to her for going all in on the circles, though — she has both pink and black ones on her dress.
Though these two hats made valiant efforts to make themselves known, we have three more hats that are all contenders for the crown of wildest hat at this year’s royal wedding, which is definitely not a thing we just made up.