Lunch Break: Bidding ends on Princess Beatrice’s wedding “hat”
by LauraLoo
UPDATE 5/23, 6:30a: People Magazine reports the hat that got a million tongues wagging – the pretzel-shaped fascinator atop Princess Beatrice’s head on Royal Wedding Day – has been sold to an anonymous bidder. The price? $130,000 - and it’s all going to charity.
UPDATE 5/21, 9a: As of this morning there were 108 bids at almost $130,000. However, the listing has now been removed from eBay.
5/20, 12p: Love it or hate it, the funky hat that Princess Beatrice wore to the Royal Wedding is proving to be worth a bundle on eBay.
Beatrice, 22, the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, put the hat up for auction for charity – and the current bid on the Philip Treacy oddity is now £20,200, or more than $30,000.
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“I’ve been amazed by the amount of attention the hat has attracted,” Beatrice writes on the eBay listing. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to raise as much money as possible for two fantastic charities. I hope whoever wins the auction has as much fun with the hat as I have.”
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[HT: People, AP and eBay]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Good for her for being able to laugh at herself and use the publicity to do some good.
Great idea – but too bad she is supporting UNICEF – they support abortion. If they want to truly help children – she should support a charity that champions helping all human children – including the unborn. Hopefully this $ will go for food, shelter,medical services – not including abortion or anything like that.
Too funny to see the hat on Charlie! LOL.
Good on her for being such a good sport about it. :)
She’s a cheeky bugger, that Beatrice.
Doug, The word “bugger” is used in England the same as the word “Fu–er” is here.
It’s a pretty filthy word.
Now, now, Pamela, don’t get your knickers in a uproar… : D
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080407105822AA0kQKI
http://www.britslang.com/2009/10/cheeky-bugger/
It’s really like “naughty” in a not-too-bad way. It’s considered a breach of etiquette to wear a hat that upstages the bride – and perhaps the Queen in this case – or that does not fit with the formality of the occasion.
I think Beatrice and Eugenie pushed the envelop due in part to a feeling of defiance, as their mom, Fergie, didn’t get invited to the wedding.
What is it with the queen and Fergie? I always thought her and Andrew made a really cute couple. And if all Beatrice did was wear an outrageous hat I think the queen got off easy.
I used to think it looked like a Christmas cookie mold. Now I think she borrowed it from a teletubbie.
I think this “hat” looks like an inverted toilet seat in the middle with a bow and some swirly ribbon cascading down the sides.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw this live the morning of the Royal Wedding. I wonder how the thing even stays on the head of the wearer.
Joy, I thought UNICEF supported abortions. Too bad another charity couldn’t be one of the recipients.
Finally, I totally agree with Doug – the stars of the Royal Wedding were the married couple, still-eligible bachelor Harry, Kate’s cute-cute sister Pippa and Beatrice (or, rather, the “hat”). :)
LL
Hans Johnson: I used to think it looked like a Christmas cookie mold. Now I think she borrowed it from a teletubbie.
LOL
(And you hardly ever see me saying that.) Ha! Love it, Hans.
(Bows.)