Right hats worn for Ascot
NZPA-AP Ascot The Queen led five horsedrawn carriages up the race-track yesterday to cheers and waving top hats, opening the four-day Royal Ascot horse-racing meet that ushers in the English summer social season.
Race officials said that none of the fashionable women invited to watch the races from the Queen’s viewing area had been banned for failing to comply with a Royal dress code against wearing under-sized hats.
The race organiser, Lieu-tenant-Colonel Piers Bengough, acting on behalf of the Queen, reminded women in April that hats “must cover the crown of the head.” He said that too
many last year had worn “nothing but a bow or a bunch of flowers.”
On a sunny but humid day the Queen wore a pink-and-white silk dress with a matching straw hat. A keen race-goer whose own horses were competing, she watched every race. Accompanied by her mother, she mingled with others at the front of the Royal Enclosure to get a trackside view.
“The Sun” newspaper reported that armed guards disguised as footmen rode “shotgun” in the Royal Family’s carriages. It said that members of Scotland Yard’s Royal Protection Squad had donned the scarlet livery of the Royal Household and sat at the rear of the carriages.
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