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Hats off to <\/span>Kate Middleton<\/strong><\/a> for her Wimbledon fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the Princess of Wales was technically supposed to be hats off while sitting in the Royal Box July 12 for the tennis championship\u2019s gentlemen\u2019s finals match between <\/span>Jannik Sinner<\/strong> and <\/span>Alexander Zverev<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n Indeed, attendees seated in the invite-only Royal Box are asked to follow a dress protocol, which advises that dress should be \u201csmart,\u201d inclusive of suits and jackets with a tie, per <\/span>the tournament\u2019s website<\/span><\/a>. Plus, the dress code stipulates that \u201cladies are asked not to wear hats, as they tend to obscure the vision of those seated behind them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n As such, Kate\u2014who holds the title as Patron of The Championships Wimbledon\u2014broke from the requested dress protocol when she briefly wore a brown sunhat while seated in the front row alongside her husband <\/span>Prince William<\/strong><\/a> and their kids <\/span>Prince George<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>and <\/span>Princess Charlotte<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the annual tennis tournament tends to relax its no-hats protocol when the heat rises and Royal Box attendees are in direct sunlight. After all, the All England Lawn Tennis Club\u2014where the tournament is held\u2014handed out fedoras with green bands for guests to find relief from the sun during both the ladies and gentlemen\u2019s finals on July 11 and July 12, respectively, according to <\/span>People<\/span><\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hats off to Kate Middleton for her Wimbledon fashion. However, the Princess of Wales was technically supposed to be hats off while sitting in the Royal Box July 12 for the tennis championship\u2019s gentlemen\u2019s finals match between Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev. Indeed, attendees seated in the invite-only Royal Box are asked to follow a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2500772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Wimbledon-2026-Kate-Middleton-Hat-in-Royal-Box-Against-Protocol.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500773,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500771\/revisions\/2500773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2500772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}