Butterfly Trimmed Straw Hat, White Jacket and Silk Rose Print Dress

This is a look that sees Her Majesty stray into slightly more flamboyant millinery territory: it's unusual, in fact, to see the Queen's hats adorned in anything more risqué than feathered flowers, but this hats departs from tradition with its highly distinctive feathered butterfiles décor. As for what concerns the clothes, we have a white cotton collarless jacket and a white silk dress with a white-on-white polka dot motif, printed in blue naturalistic roses and green butterflies, a nod to the hat that ties together the whole look.

The dress that forms part of this outfit is probably one of the most widely used on its own among those in Her Majesty's wardrobe. She selected it for a reception at Hotel Phoenicia in Floriana, Malta, on 24 November 2005, during a visit she undertook with the Duke of Edinburgh to coincide with their 58th wedding anniversary. The Queen wore a pair of twin brooches in the shape of ivy leaves, part of the Greville bequest:

The Queen wore the complete outfit on 18 March 2006, on a State visit to Singapore during which she presented the winner's cup at the Queen Elizabeth II Cup held at the Singapore Turf Club. The diamond and sapphire grapes brooch was worn:

 

The look, minus the jacket, was repeated on 12 June 2006 at a Buckingham Palace garden party to mark to mark the 350th anniversary of the Grenadier Guards. The Queen predictably wore the Grenadier Guards badge:

 

 

 

While the hat and jacket have not been seen in public in quite some time, the Queen seems to have got much wear out of the dress, which, to this day, she frequently chooses for daytime engagements and audiences.

On 19 July 2006, the Queen wore the dress, accessorized with Marie Feodorovna's sapphire and pearl pendant brooch, to attend the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. She is seen below with Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel, whom she presented with The Queen's Medal for Music:

The Queen wore the dress again on 11 July 2013 to the Coronation Festival, a one-off event held in the gardens of Buckingham Palace, where the Royal Warrant Holders Association brought together - for the first time on this scale - over 200 companies who hold Royal Warrants of Appointment. She wore the Nizam of Hyderabad Rose brooch:

 

Very unusually, the Queen graciously agreed to pose for a photograph with Jessica Fitch, aged 7, and Bertie the teddy bear (Daily Mail story here):

On 1 July 2014, the Queen repeated the dress for an audience with Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh (Daily Mail article here). Not so easy to spot, but HM seems to be wearing the Flame Lily brooch:

Burnt Orange Cashmere Stewart Parvin Coat and Dress, Black Fur Hat

The Queen debuted this burnt orange cashmere coat with self-covered buttons and black fur cuffs on Christmas Day 2013 for the traditional church service at St Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham estate (Daily Mail article here). The outfit is comprised of a matching dress in the same fabric and is topped off with an opulent black fur hat. The Queen selected one of Queen Victoria's bow brooches to complete the look:

On 2 December 2015, the Queen wore the dress on its own, again with one of Queen Victoria's bow brooches, to hold audiences at Buckingham Palace. Below she is seen with Her Excellency Mrs Paivi Luostarinen, the ambassador of Finland:



On 15 February 2017, the Queen repeated the dress to hold audiences at Buckingham Palace. Below she is shown with the High Commissioner for India, Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha, and his wife:

Charcoal Grey Coat and Dress with Trimmings and Embroidery in Shades of Grey, Angela Kelly Hat

This outfit is another example of how much carefully planning and consideration goes into the Queen's wardrobe choices. In this case, the dress was made to coordinate with two ensambles, to match the tone of two dramatically different events the same day, thus allowing Her Majesty to simply change her coat and hat and quickly achieve a polar opposite feel in her general appearance.

This dress, which appears to be made of a lightweight wool crepe in charcoal grey and is embellished with a central vertical band of trimmings in shades of grey, was first seen on 26 June 2015 for a walkabout in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz on the last day of the Queen's visit to Germany. It was an occasion that called for a bright, highly-visible in the crowd look, and Her Majesty achieved this perfectly with a pale primrose yellow coat and hat (discussed here). The whole look was tied together thanks to charcoal accents on both pieces:

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh then departed Berlin on their way to the former concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by British and Canadian troops. This was an altogether more sombre engagement and the Queen was seen disembarking the plane having swapped yellow in favour of a total grey look. Over her grey dress, she had put on a collarless coat in the same fabric, with hidden buttons tonal embellishments that made the piece very interesting. Alongside grey trimmings at the cuffs, pockets and down the centre, the fabric was dotted with minute (embroidered?) squares  that caught the light at different angles, thus providing a lot of movement to the coat (Daily Mail article here).

The look was topped off with a cloche type hat by Angela Kelly, covered in charcoal crepe and ice blue satin and finished with an ice blue ribbon and flat bow around the crown. The Queen also swapped brooches, opting for the delicate Bronte Porcelain one:

On 8 February 2016, the Queen repeated the all-grey version of the outfit for her train journey from King's Lynn to London at the end of her Christmas holidays at Sandringham (Daily Mail article here). She accessorized with a black fur scarf, Pearl Trefoil brooch and the customary silk scarf she usually selects for this kind of occasion:

Although the exact date is unconfirmed, it would appear the Queen visited her Royal Ascot Gold Cup winner Estimate's first foal just before leaving Norfolk (Daily Telegraph article here). We know the visit happened in the first week of February and the outfit is exactly the same, down to the same silk scarf:

The Queen repeated the whole look on 30 June 2016, to attend a service and vigil at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme (Daily Mail article here). This time she wore the Cullinan V brooch:

On 13 March 2017, the Queen returned to the outfit's original yellow incarantion and wore it to the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey (Daily Mail article here). She paired it with the Australian wattle brooch:

Pink Bouclé Outfit with Lace Inserts and Silk Peony Trim

The Queen debuted this pale dusty pink outfit for the renaming of the Marché aux Fleurs in Paris in her honour as Marché aux Fleurs - Reine Elisabeth II, on 7 June 2014, the last day of her State visit to France to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings (Daily Mail article here). The outfit is comprised of a dress and collarless jacket in a pale dusty pink, gold-speckled bouclé fabric with white lace bands inserted across the waist and cuffs.
The hat is an Angela Kelly creation, in white straw trimmed with a large band of the same bouclé fabric and a pink silk peony on one side. For the occasion, the Queen finished off her look with the appropriately floral Irish Blossom diamond brooch:

With French President François Hollande and Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo.

On 5 March 2015, the Queen recycled the suit to bid farewell to the President of the United Mexican States, Señor Enrique Peña Nieto, and Señora Angélica Rivera de Peña at the end of their State Visit to the United Kingdom. The Cullinan VI & VII brooches were worn:

The whole look was repeated on 15 August 2015, to attend a service at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of hostilities with Japan in WWII, or VJ70 (Daily Mail article here). This time the Queen accessorized with the Cullinan V brooch:

On 4 May 2016, the Queen wore the dress on its own, again with the Cullinan V brooch, to receive Baroness Scotland at Buckingham Palace, on her appointment as Commonwealth Secretary General. Note that the dress features the same lace inlays at the cuffs and waist as the jacket:

On 5 April 2017, the Queen wore the dress and jacket to a ceremony at Windsor Castle during which she presented the Royal Lancers with a Guidon, or heraldic banner. Predictably, the Royal Lancers badge was worn as a brooch. After the presentation the Queen, the Regiment's Colonel-in-Chief, granted The Royal Lancers with the honorific suffix 'Queen Elizabeths Own' in recognition of their service to Her Majesty and to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Daily Mail article here):

Turquoise Stewart Parvin Outfit and Angela Kelly Floral-Trimmed Hat

For her fourth State visit to Malta in November 2015, to coincide with the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the Queen debuted a series of new outfits (discussed here and here), including this bright turquoise one by Stewart Parvin, set off with a hat by Angela Kelly, worn on the last day of the visit, 28 November 2015, and accessorized with her turquoise and diamond brooch.
Comprised of a collarless coat with patch pockets (a style of which HM seems to be particularly fond), a printed silk dress and a hat with a gently sloped crown covered in the same fabric as the coat and an upturned brim in matching turquoise straw, trimmed with a small posy of white and blue flowers tied together with a blue silk ribbon bow.

On the last day of their visit to the island where they spent the early days of their married life, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh undertook a series of engagemnts, including a tree-planting ceremony, a visit to the National Agency for Malta's Cultural Heritage, where they viewed items being preserved for future generations, a tour of HMS Bulwark at Customs Wharf and a game of polo at Marsa racecourse (Daily Mail article here):

 

On 6 July 2016, the Queen repeated the look on a visit to Dundee during the annual Holyrood Week, a series of engagements in Scotland (Daily Mail article here). She wore one of Queen Victoria's Bow brooches: