Kate Middleton Sports Custom $675 Hat for Zara Phillips's Wedding [PHOTOS]

 Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is already known for her keen fashion sense, and her mastery of recycling looks from her own closet, but when it comes to hats, well, it seems the new royal is willing to spend a pretty penny.
At the wedding of Prince William's cousin Zara Phillips to Mike Tindall, Kate were a cream Collette Dinnigan French lace dress and Day Birger et Mikkelsen brocade coat, first worn in 2006 at the wedding of Laura Parker Bowles and Harry Lopes. She wore it a second time at the 2010 wedding of Mel Nicholson and Oli Baker.
But for Phillips's wedding, Kate accessorized her outfit with a brand new, bespoke hat by British milliner Gina Foster, People.com reported.
The natural straw coulis, called "Launceston Place," retails for about $675, and was customized by the duchess herself in a visit to the hat maker 10 days before the July 30 nuptials.

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Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall Royal Wedding

 
Zara Phillips and fiance Mike Tindall leave the wedding reception for Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011 in central London, England. The marriage of Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, to Catherine Middleton is being held in London today. The Archbishop of Canterbury conducted the service which was attended by 1900 guests, including foreign Royal family members and heads of state. Thousands of well-wishers from around the world have also flocked to London to witness the spectacle and pageantry of the Royal Wedding and street parties are being held throughout the UK.

Zara Phillips Wedding

Zara Phillips is believed to be setting a royal precedent by not taking the surname of Mike Tindall. Even when they marry commoners, Royal brides have always adopted the family name of their partners. When Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, daughter of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon, wed Daniel Chatto in 1994 she took on his name. Zara's decision appears to be based on the fact she wants to preserve her sporting persona and business interests. The former equestrian world champion is known throughout the sport as Zara Phillips and she has signed a number of deals which help fund her sporting interests.

Zara's something borrowed great-grandmother's tiara

 The Queen never wore the tiara in public and it was next seen on Princess Anne, who was given the tiara by her mother in 1972.
The Princess Royal, now 61 and famous for recycling her outfits for high-profile occasions, wore the tiara during her engagement to her first husband, Zara's father Captain Mark Phillips, and has been pictured sporting it at least four times, notably in 2000 for an official portrait to mark her 50th birthday.
The Princess Royal, now 61 and famous for recycling her outfits for high-profile occasions, wore the tiara during her engagement to her first husband, Zara's father Captain Mark Phillips, and has been pictured sporting it at least four times, notably in 2000 for an official portrait to mark her 50th birthday.
 The Princess Royal, now 61 and famous for recycling her outfits for high-profile occasions, wore the tiara during her engagement to her first husband, Zara's father Captain Mark Phillips, and has been pictured sporting it at least four times, notably in
2000 for an official portrait to mark her 50th birthday.

Zara kept up the wedding tradition of having something borrowed by earing a spectacular diamond tiara that has been passed down through four generations of the Royal Family - and was last worn by her mother two months ago.
The bride's short silk veil was set off by the Meander tiara, once owned by Prince Philip's mother and loaned to Zara by Princess Anne, who wore it in May for a state banquet at Buckingham Palace to welcome President Obama and his wife Michele.
The tiara is based around a classical Greek 'key pattern' design and boasts a magnificent cut diamond at its centre, which is set off by a laurel wreath pattern picked out in diamonds with honeysuckle motifs on either side.

The silver headpiece made its way into the Windsor family in 1947 when it was given as a wedding gift to the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, from her mother-in-law, Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Its Greek style was inspired by her marriage to Prince Andrew of Greece, the father of the present Duke of Edinburgh.

Wedding revellers get back to work

England centre Mike Tindall was given a rude awakening on his return to his side's Rugby World Cup training base following his high-profile royal wedding to Zara Phillips on Saturday.

Tindall was joined at his Edinburgh nuptials by a host of his team-mates including Chris Ashton, Lewis Moody, Steve Thompson, Danny Care and Jonny Wilkinson with reports suggesting the party continued into the following day. But England manager Martin Johnson, who has cut his squad down to 40 players ahead of back-to-back World Cup warm-up games against Wales, put his men through a rigorous fitness test on their return.

"They normally give us [fitness] programmes through the weekend but they didn't last weekend because they knew a few of us would be going up to the wedding and having a drink," said Ashton. "It gave people a bit of a chance to relax knowing that we were going to go hard this morning in fitness tests and I think they have managed to get us back if we had a drink this weekend!"

Asked whether any of the England players were sick during the test, overseen by national fitness coach Calvin Morris, Ashton joked: "No one ate breakfast!"

Tindall was given an extra night away from camp but returned to Pennyhill Park today and was training with the squad this afternoon. "Mike went up Thursday lunchtime and he is back now - he probably feels like he has never been away," said Johnson, who was also one of the guests. "He looked fine. Anyon

e who is fit is in the reckoning to play at the weekend. We will announce the squad on Thursday."