Posted on 05/25/2011 11:47:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Remember the laughs -- and gasps -- that greeted Princess Beatrice when she showed up for the royal wedding wearing that, well, unusual hat? Well now the young royal is getting the last laugh.
Beatrice, 22, put the blush-colored "fascinator" up for auction on eBay, and it's now been snapped up by an anonymous bidder -- for $130,000! According to People, the princess is donating the cash to two charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis, the later of which was started by Beatrice's mother Sarah Ferguson (a.k.a. "Fergie," the Duchess of York) to provide education to children in some of the world's poorest countries.
"It has its own personality," Beatrice said of her head-topper after the sale ended. "And I am so happy that we have raised the most incredible amount of money and can make an even bigger change for the lives of some of the most vulnerable children across the world."
For the April 29 wedding of her cousin Prince William to Kate Middleton, Beatrice completed her outfit with the topper made by renowned London milliner Philip Treacy. The hat was so unusual that it instantly grabbed headlines, endless commentary and a number of Facebook fan pages, including ones that compared or combined pictures of the headpiece with images of a uterus, a pretzel, an octopus, an antelope, a moose and a reindeer. One fan page jokingly gave the hat credit for killing Osama bin Laden.
Treacy, whose creations can cost about $3,300, also made the electric blue number Beatrice's sister Princess Eugenie wore to the wedding -- and he says he made both hats without any royal input. "No, they didn't tell me (what they wanted) because I've known them for a long time, and I wanted them to look gorgeous and beautiful," he told HollywoodLife.com. "They trusted me to make them. Gorgeous and beautiful can be open to interpretation. My inspiration was beauty and elegance."
Well whatever his inspiration, the resulting creation turned out to have an ending perfect for a princess: happily ever after.
Er, the raccoon looks like it just got its teeth whitened!
Rich, long blonde hair and nice eyes. What’s not to like?
Does anyone know how to cancel a bid on Ebay?
I bid on a Mickey Mouse Outfit, and now I’m six minutes away from winning Obama’s Cabinet.
The silly rich.
Quick!
Sell it to China!
At least the hat can be removed painlessly. Can’t say the same for those teeth...
“Does anyone know how to cancel a bid on Ebay?
I bid on a Mickey Mouse Outfit, and now I’m six minutes away from winning Obama’s Cabinet.”
Is this a teaser for Friday Silliness? ;)
that should pay Mummy’s bar tab for a week
excellent
Amazing! They are all cartoon characters. LOL Good stuff.
LOL! Ouch!
I thought she was cute. The hat certainly worked for her color and facial shape. It brought more discussion than most of the royal wedding. And now she draws a few bucks for charity. Sounds like a home run for the Princess Beatrice.
Awesome and oh so appropriate for a room full of Liberal fools!
I wondered what this was when I first saw it. I only read about this hat on this thread. Now this image makes more sense. Thanks...
Outstanding! You are fantastic with graphics. Thanks for the chuckles.
Liberal fools? Well there is a big oxymoron.
Hey, at least it was for charity. :)
“Liberal fools? Well there is a big oxymoron.”
That’s merely redundant. “Liberal logic” is an oxymoron.
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