Princess Beatrice's hat: bid up to $30,000

LONDON (AP) — Online auctioneer eBay says that bids for one of the wackiest pieces of royal wedding headgear have approached 18,400 pounds ($30,000.)

Princess Beatrice's massive, ring-and-bow-shaped hat, turned heads at the wedding of her cousin Prince William last month and has since become an Internet sensation.

The Philip Treacy creation has been compared to a toilet seat or a pretzel, and has been endlessly photoshopped to feature, for example, a cat crawling through it.

Beatrice has taken the joke in stride, featuring some of the most startling hat-inspired works on the eBay website. Money from the hat's sale is going to the UNICEF and Children in Crisis charities.

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So sneeringly sayeth some smarmy smarties.

for a lot of charity money..who knows, but kudos to her.


It looks like a wrought iron fence thingie kind of design to me.

She's fifth in line for the throne - if some calamity would befall the royals during their annual family portrait session, I think it would be awesome if Beatrice got to take over. :D

but I got this fun image :)

I think the new style elevates his, um, gravitas -- to maybe clown level, which is an improvement...

:rofl:

It's nice that she's purging it for charity.

She bumps into things a lot, so they make her wear it.

of herself wearing it about two weeks after the royal wedding. I have NO idea where she got it, or how she was able to get a copy of it so fast. My comment: "Is that what you get when you cross an octapus with a wired ribbon?"

I should mention that my friend is very beautiful, and the hat looked as good on her as on Princess Beatrice. Well...no worse anyway.