Garter Day wouldn’t be Garter Day without elaborate hats, velvet, and feathers … lots of feathers
Kate Middleton at Garter Day. Photo: Tim Rooke/Shutterstock An extremely royal event took place on Monday at Windsor Castle: Garter Day, which honors the Order of the Garter. The order has been a tradition since Medieval times, and the event calls for knights to dress up in velvet and feathers. There’s also a procession with a marching band, and then certain members of the British royal family travel in horse-drawn carriages.
Queen Letizia, Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen Maxima, Kate Middleton. Photo: Tim Rooke/Shutterstock Those hats sure were fancy, but the rest of the royals in attendance went even further — wearing the velvet-and-feather hat of the Order of the Garter. Here was Queen Elizabeth:
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