Princess Beatrice wedding hat auction bids pass $29,500

EnglishLady · May 18, 2011

BBC News

Bids on eBay for Princess Beatrice's unusual royal wedding hat have surpassed £18,000 ($29,500).

The dramatic creation by Philip Treacy has been likened to a Turkey Twizzler, a toilet seat and a pretzel.

Worn to the wedding of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge last month, it has its own Facebook page.

The auction on eBay, which has had 64 bids from 32 bidders, ends on 22 May with proceeds going to charities Unicef and Children in Crisis.

'Great need'

Australian children's TV performers The Wiggles put in an offer of £17,500 but the leading bid now stands at £18,400.

Anthony Field, of The Wiggles, joked: "We wear some pretty crazy costumes on stage but this hat beats them all - it could bring about an Australian republic all by itself.

"When we heard about the auction we knew we had to bid. We're ambassadors for Unicef and we think it's great that Princess Beatrice has chosen to support children in great need."

The Wiggles have thought about giving the hat to the Australian cricket captain for the next Ashes series against England.

"We might give it to Michael Clarke to wear when he bats against the Poms next time - it would certainly distract the bowler," said Field

For a reminder of the "hat"
BBC News - Princess Beatrice wedding hat auction bids pass £18,000

cheri1122 · May 18, 2011

Of all the Photoshop additions of 'that hat' to pics, my favorite was of the Situation Room in the White House during the raid that killed bin Laden - it was hilarious.
Personally, I'm fully prepared to believe that the hat was revenge for Fergie being left out of the wedding. and I loved that. Really, is there any other rational explanation for it?

pjjjjj · May 18, 2011

cheri1122 said:
.... Fergie being left out of the wedding.....

Let this be a lesson to those of us who might aspire to sell interview time with our royal ex's to the media!

Turtle · May 19, 2011

cheri1122 said:
Of all the Photoshop additions of 'that hat' to pics, my favorite was of the Situation Room in the White House during the raid that killed bin Laden - it was hilarious.

I dunno. This doesn't look Photoshopped to me.
I think it's the real deal.

EnglishLady · May 19, 2011

ROFL that is too funny ROFL

Good post to wake up to LOL

greg334 · May 19, 2011

cheri1122 said:
Personally, I'm fully prepared to believe that the hat was revenge for Fergie being left out of the wedding. and I loved that. Really, is there any other rational explanation for it?

It is either this, or she is like another one of her ancestors who also did bizarre things.

Its not just this hat, I think there are 8 of them from what I heard and I found 6 of them floating around in this Internet thing. I like the butterfly one, does her justice.

The one I liked in the photoshop'ed group was the attached one.

Oh by the way it is over £20k

EnglishLady · May 19, 2011

I think she wore it as a dare

Great pic Greg -

greg334 · May 19, 2011

all but one cat liked it, the one that didn't hissed at the picture, which wouldn't answer me when I asked who she was hissing at.

cheri1122 · May 19, 2011

greg334 said:
Oh by the way it is over £20k

Is that more, or less than the 'Grilled Jesus' sammich went for?

greg334 · May 19, 2011

cheri1122 said:
Is that more, or less than the 'Grilled Jesus' sammich went for?

That I think went for $28k while the 'betty' hat is going for $33,100 the last time I looked.

moose · May 19, 2011

just incase you mist the wedding, here is what took place :

YouTube - ‪The T-Mobile Royal Wedding‬&rlm;

EnglishLady · May 20, 2011

BBC News

Bidding for the "hat" is at $89,768.00

Turtle · May 20, 2011

EnglishLady said:
BBC News

Bidding for the "hat" is at $89,768.00

It's well above that now. Princess Beatrice Royal Wedding Hat by Philip Treacy | eBay Auction Listing

Aside from the fact that the hat looks more like the door knocker on Elton John's bathroom, I have to wonder if the hat designer isn't a big fan of Cher.

dieseldiva · May 20, 2011

Turtle said:
It's well above that now. Princess Beatrice Royal Wedding Hat by Philip Treacy | eBay Auction Listing

Aside from the fact that the hat looks more like the door knocker on Elton John's bathroom, I have to wonder if the hat designer isn't a big fan of Cher.

Isn't THAT interesting.........

Turtle · May 20, 2011

dieseldiva said:
Isn't THAT interesting.........

Yeah, it is. But then again, Princess Beatrice's hat also looks like a toilet seat with a bow ribbon tied around it. So there's that.

It may be the kewlest way ever to publicly call a member of the royal family a ****head and get away with it.

dieseldiva · May 20, 2011

Turtle said:
Yeah, it is. But then again, Princess Beatrice's hat also looks like a toilet seat with a bow ribbon tied around it. So there's that.

It may be the kewlest way ever to publicly call a member of the royal family a ****head and get away with it.

Wonder what the person that designed Cher's head piece has to say about the Princess' hat. These people don't cotton much to others duplicating their work.....hmmmm

Turtle · May 20, 2011

dieseldiva said:
Wonder what the person that designed Cher's head piece has to say about the Princess' hat. These people don't cotton much to others duplicating their work.....hmmmm

Well, at the considerable risk of sounding a little gay, Cher's headdress was designed by Bob Mackie.

That was back when Cher

had that whole Cleopatra

thing going on.

I went to the Royal Wedding and all I got was this toilet seat on my head!

OMG. What was I thinking! I think I'm gonna cry!