Isabel II

In her seventy years of reign and ninety-six years of life, Queen Elizabeth II has made history to the point of becoming the longest-living British monarch and one of the most omnipresent figures of the last century. Her headdresses and hats, converted into iconic accessories of the sovereign, beyond her aesthetic qualities, are a sample of British "soft power". Nearly 100 years have passed since, in 1933, as a girl, she wore a round, pink hat trimmed with flowers, sitting next to her father King George V, until the year 2020, after the confinement, when she reappeared before his town covered with another hat, also pink and with flowers. Almost a century of politics, diplomacy and fashion passes between both images, a century that is explained in these pages through the unknown and surprising story behind the queen's hats.