Why did Queen Elizabeth always wear hats? Now that she has died at age 96, let’s take a look at her love for hats.

William Shakespeare once wrote,

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

Maybe that’s why Britain’s queen wears so many hats. Queen Elizabeth II has worn about 5,000 different hats over the past 50 years. The hats represent more than simply a fashion statement, according to royal biographer Robert Lacey.

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Why own 5000 hats?

“Hats, you see, are obviously very significant items of clothing in a monarch,” Lacey said. “You could say when she’s wearing a hat that she’s wearing a sort of crown substitute.”

Freddy Fox, one of the queen’s milliners, has made hundreds of crown substitutes for the queen so many that she travels with a separate train car just for the hats.

“She wears what she feels comfortable in and she looks good in. It’s after all a working uniform for a very, energetic, working lady,” Fox said.

The queen is one of the wealthiest women in the world, but she wears her favorite hats 20 or 30 times, according to principal milliner Philip Somerville. He says there are a few she chose not to wear more than once.

The following images are only a fraction of what she owned and wore. We all can conclude that Queen Elizabeth II, contribution to that fashion is the most influential in the world.

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Lover Of Colour

The Queen till her dying day always chose to wear vibrant colours. It si what defined her true royal personality.

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