One last post to recap the finery and foolery of the jewels and hats worn to this year’s Royal Ascot races. Generally, the royal attendance drops significantly after Ladies’ Day, but there are still a few outfits and accessories for us to peruse from the fourth and fifth days. Enjoy!

LOVE this bright pink color on HM for Day 4 — this color is so perfect for a sunny occasion like this, because it makes the wearer all rosy and glowing. And the tourmaline brooch from the people of Saskatchewan is an A+ choice to go with the coat.

Day 4 brought the Kents to Ascot, including one of my favorite dramatic royal dressers, Lady Helen Taylor. Pearls with a neutral dress and black hat could have been a bit matronly, but not when you add a cheeky pair of sunnies with lucite frames!

Getty didn’t even ID the other Kent lady in attendance — that’s the Countess of St. Andrews on the left, wearing pearls and an interesting hat. I want to see more of that chapeau, because there looks to be some very interesting stuff going on between head and brim. (Also, the Duke of Kent’s pretty up-to-date on his technology, eh?)

Lady Sarah Chatto may essentially be repeating her outfit from Trooping the Colour on Day 4, but I don’t mind, because LOOK AT THAT JEWELRY. A beautiful pearl and diamond sunburst brooch, lovely pearl and diamond earrings, plus another very important piece. That necklace of alternating diamonds and pearls was one of Queen Mary’s very favorite pieces of jewelry. Princess Margaret inherited it in 1953, and Sarah inherited it from her mother. GORGEOUS.

Princess Haya went less theatrical with her outfit for Day 4 (although that skirt could be a chandelier if electrified properly), adding only diamond earrings and a bracelet to her ensemble. Also of note: that very handsome man standing to her right is her stepson, Sheikh Hamdan, Dubai’s crown prince. Recent stories about Hamdan’s engagement have been debunked, ladies, that’s all I’m going to say.

The final day of Ascot brought us the Queen in pink once more, albeit a paler shade this time. She added yet another floral brooch to the outfit as well; it features blooms set in rose gold.

The Yorkies made a surprise appearance at Day 5 — it’s a Hat Christmas miracle, everyone! Even better, they brought along their boyfriends, which means we get a rare official appearance from Smiley DAVE. Bea’s worn this hat at Ascot before, but I like it — and I really like the interesting gold necklaces she’s layered over her bright pink dress.

Princess Eugenie’s hat, on the other hand, is not really my cup of tea. Or is it the rumply jacket? Or is it the combo? Hard to say, though I think perhaps the neckline of the coat is too high when combined with the size/angle of the hat. Also: minimal jewelry again — I spot one tiny bracelet. And clearly no one gave poor Jack Brooksbank lessons on how not to hold his hat.

The lovely woman chatting here with Prince Philip is another surprise princess: Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan, the daughter of Prince Hassan and Princess Sarvath. Badiya has an impressive resume: she’s not only a princess but also an Oxford-educated barrister who is the chairperson of one of Prince Charles’s charities. She’s also good at selecting flattering colors for her clothing, based on this appearance, though I’m itching to snip the netting off that hat. And from what I can see, thumbs up on the earrings.

No need to hide, ladies — it’s your day at the races! Let’s survey the jewels (and, of course, the hats) worn by the Windsors at Ladies’ Day at Royal Ascot — enjoy!

Lovely in a saturated turquoise color, HM brought out a rather intriguing brooch for Ladies’ Day: it’s a diamond and aquamarine brooch from the collection of the late Queen Mother. You’ll remember during our discussion of the D-Day commemoration that the Queen Mother felt that dressing up when she visited war-ravaged Britain showed that she valued and respected the people she met. This is the very brooch she wore on one of her visits to the bombed sections of the East End during the Blitz.

Sophie’s been keeping up her neutral color palette at this year’s Ascot, which should be boring me, but I can’t help but think it’s just really chic instead. The brooch is silver-toned, and it features stylized black strawberries. (PS: Ladies’ Day was Sophie’s fifteenth wedding anniversary — check out our Royal Jewel Rewind post here!)

She may be wearing a hot pink bucket on her head, but as Anne’s outfit does not appear to be two decades old, I’ll give it a pass. The pearl choker is, I believe, the same one she wore fifteen years ago at Prince Edward’s wedding. I’m really intrigued by the brooch — I’ve seen speculation that this is a ruby piece that might have been a gift from a Middle Eastern monarch.

The elder Yorkie, Princess Bea, wore an orange peel on top of her head for the day. Unfortunately, there’s no discernible jewelry to be seen here, not even an earring. And I think this needs earrings, too.

Eugenie appears to have just said no to jewelry, too. That’s really unfortunate, because this sad hat and straitjacket could really have used an embellishment or two.

This time, instead of a Sunflowers tribute, Princess Haya went for My Fair Lady. MUCH better, and the choice of small sparkly studs that don’t draw attention away from that remarkably dramatic hat was a good one.

Sophie’s excited, and so am I! Let’s get right to the jewelry and hats of the second day of the races at Royal Ascot, shall we?

New day, new(ish) brooch, same queen. HM clearly loves the new floral brooch that she debuted during the French state visit earlier this month, because she’s repeating it again here. I love the brooch — not such a fan of the multicolored floral embellishment on the hat. This would be so much more elegant if the flowers were the same minty-sage color as the rest of the chapeau.

Camilla brought out her pearl choker with the large Edwardian pink topaz clasp again, plus a pair of interesting earrings that I’d really like a better look at. As for the outfit — would love to see something brighter for Ascot. The ivory is elegant but zzzzzzzzz.

Sophie Wessex’s ensemble is also neutral, yes, but I can’t help loving it, including the hat. But what I love even more here are the jewels: diamond earrings and a pair of Art Deco diamond clips given to her as a wedding present by the Queen Mother. Gorgeous!

In the immortal words of Donny Hathaway, and then there’s Anne. I kid you  not, this entire outfit, hat and all, was worn by Anne in the 1980s. She does this all the time, and yeah, thrift and all, but COME ON. Anyway. The earrings are perfectly lovely, the pearl necklace is on the small side but okay, and the brooch — well, the brooch is obscured by the strap of Anne’s purse, which has also got to be from the ’80s, because I remember putting that exact knot in the strap of the purse I took to Sunday School in 1988. I should move on, this makes me grumpy.

Oh, so much better. The Duchess of Gloucester has worn this entire outfit, hat and all, so many times. I can’t even see her jewelry in the photo, but I already feel revived.

Which is good, because that meant I was prepared for the moment when the Ghost of Coco Chanel inhabited the body of Princess Michael of Kent. (Except I don’t think Coco would have put that feather anywhere near that hat. That’s pure Zsa-Zsa Kent, right there.) I’m really intrigued by those silver-toned pearls.

I still was not fully prepared, though, to see Princess Haya bring the Full Van Gogh to the races. Nice earrings and bracelet, though.

One final pair of royals-adjacent at Ascot on Day 2: the Earl and Countess Spencer, uncle and aunt of Princes William and Harry. The (newest) Lady Spencer looks absolutely lovely. Her husband looks like a little boy who is wearing his father’s too-big hat — which, knowing the frugality of the British aristocracy, may actually be the case.