On 17 June 2010, Ladies' Day at Ascot, the Queen selected this straw hat with pink and cream blooms, accessorising with the Carrington sapphire feather brooch:
On 30 March 2012, we saw again this coat and hat combo worn to a Service of Thanksgiving in memory of the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Aptly, one of the Queen Mother's favourite brooches, the Courtauld-Thomson Scallop Shell, was chosen:
The Queen chose again the collarless coat, swapping the hat for a hairnet with black flowers and adding the diamond Jardine Star brooch when she visited the Chelsea Flower Show on 22 May 2012:
The other combination of coat and hat, with silk flowers in more subded colours, was selected on 14 June 2012, when the Queen visited the new maternity ward at Lister Hospital in Stevenage. Her Majesty wore the Kent amethyst brooch:
On 28 June 2013, the Queen selected the collarless coat and brighter hat combo when she toured the barracks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Canterbury, Kent. Rather predictably, the badge of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders was worn:
Only a few days later, on 3 July 2013, the other combination was again chosen for a series of engagements in Scotland, paired with the Amethyst Bouquet brooch:
A detail of the flowers:
The hat reappeared paired with the collarless coat on 3 April 2014, when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh paid a visit to Rome, where they met the President of the Republic Mr Giorgio Napolitano and Pope Francis. The Russian sapphire cluster brooch was worn:
The same hat, with the other, collared coat, was worn for a solemn drumhead service at the Royal Hospital Chelsea in London on 28 June 2014, to commemorate the British soldiers who volunteered to fight in the First World War. The Kent amethyst brooch made another appearance:
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