She has already made 250 hats this year, including elaborate hairbands and The World Traveller – her foldable panama that comes in a polycotton straw effect that doesn’t crack and can be customised with one of the scores of hatbands she keeps adding to the range.

Kate and Charlotte are adorable in matching Alexander McQueen headpieces for Coronation Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte both looked beautiful in strikingly similar headpieces for today's celebrations. As part of the congregation, they have been instructed to wear day dress with hats, which has been a disappointment in itself to traditionalists who were hoping to see some of the world’s finest tiaras all paraded under one roof. Whatever the Princess of Wales wears on her head, it will surely match the mood of the occasion perfectly, dazzlingly bejewelled or not. Now gather up your bands and your glue, and decide how many bands you are going to need to attach to your crown to make a circle that will fit around your child's head. His granddaughter, as well as his daughter-in-law, wearing such a botanical motif is a unique and visual way to pay homage to the passion—and causes—of their new monarch.They come in all shapes and sizes, and milliners guard them preciously, sometimes trading shapes with one another or tracking down vintage ones. We can't promise it's an exact replica of King Charles' coronation crown but we think it looks pretty impressive! She was, inter alia for Samantha Cameron (a crimson tilty upper) but she had to keep schtum about the princesses.

Buckingham Palace revealed in a statement: "The embellishment of the Coronation dress features delicate garlands of abstract wildflowers from fields and hedgerows: daisy chains, forget-me-nots, celandine and scarlet pimpernel, representing The King and The Queen Consort’s affection for nature and the British countryside.At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, she wore a seven-metre-long silk gown which had taken 3,500 hours to embroider with the emblems of the UK and Commonwealth in 18 different types of gold and silver thread. The 1960s started the decline and by the early 2000s it was very niche,” People reassured her the clients would find her eventually. Collett designed and made – in collaboration with the embroiderers at Alexander McQueen, the house responsible for the Princess’s gown – the headdresses worn by Kate and Princess Charlotte for the Coronation of King Charles in May.