Facebook sensation: Princess Beatrice and her hat
London (dpa) – The fashion faux pas of Princess Beatrice at the wedding of her cousin Prince William has paid off: the much-debated hat, the 22-year-old who was made fun of a deer antler or pretzel was a hit at the auction site Ebay.
Go to the bottom end of the auction on Sunday of the unusual hat went for exactly 81 100.01 pounds (more than 90 000 €) to an anonymous bidder.
The proceeds will go to the Children’s Fund UNICEF and the Children in Crisis Action (Children in Crisis), Beatrice’s mother, Sarah Ferguson had stated. His hat had created the Irish designer Philip Treacy celebrity, who also designed the hats for Prince Charles’ wife Camilla and Victoria Beckham.
“I am the incredible interest in the hat can not believe,” was Princess Beatrice leave in the evening, Unicef. He has his own personality. “With the” incredible amount of money “could now the lives of many children are made better.
Beatrice was in the hat unintentionally become the Facebook-sensation. On a “fan” page of the social network with the title “Princess Beatrice’s Ridiculous Hat Royal Wedding“, tens of thousands more of their “ridiculous royal wedding Shut” funny. The formed into a loop pale pink hat was compared with elk antlers, entrails, a pretzel and extraterrestrial beings. Treacy hats can cost more than $ 3,000.