--- title: Sarah Ferguson Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Take Off description: While most ogled at the grand display of love during the royal wedding, some were side-tracked by the mother of the bride Sarah Ferguson. canonical: https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/ author: Precious Adesina article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-12T14:50:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:27.398Z og:title: Sarah Ferguson's Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Takeoff og:description: While watching the wedding, some were distracted by the mother of the bride og:url: https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f6f83a039d0ec65/69893c82db29879bd6260efc/gettyimages-1051949272.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: Princess Eugenie Of York Marries Mr. Jack Brooksbank og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sarah Ferguson's Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Takeoff twitter:description: While watching the wedding, some were distracted by the mother of the bride twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f6f83a039d0ec65/69893c82db29879bd6260efc/gettyimages-1051949272.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sarah Ferguson's Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Takeoff > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images) WINDSOR, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 12: Sarah Ferguson arrives ahead of the wedding of Princess Eugenie of York to Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on October 12, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images) WPA Pool—Getty Images by [Precious Adesina](https://time.com/author/precious-adesina/) ## Precious Adesina Oct 12, 2018 2:50 PM UTC While most ogled at the grand display of love during the wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank at Windsor on Friday, some were side-tracked by the mother of the bride Sarah Ferguson. The Duchess of York arrived at Sts George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle with her other daughter, Princess Beatrice, in a perfectly tailored emerald dress by Emma Louise Design, a local Windsor company. But the statement piece of her ensemble was truly her matching green hat complete with a gold ribbon which flared out at the back. The high winds in Windsor meant Fergie, [like many attendees, clutched onto her show-stopping head piece for dear life](http://time.com/5422965/eugenie-wedding-royal-family-photos/), though many thought it may jet off for different reasons — it resembled a snitch from the famous Harry Potter series. BBC Three captioned a photo of Fergie on Twitter as “When you’ve got a #RoyalWedding at 11 but Harry Potter has to catch you to win a Quidditch match at 2”. Naturally, Twitter followed suit, comparing her hat to all that takes flight. > [](https://twitter.com/bbcthree/status/1050693215869960192) > [](https://twitter.com/enrica%5Fsneaker/status/1050684872837160960) > [](https://twitter.com/theCocoaChelsea/status/105069313382100992) > [](https://twitter.com/JayneHowarth/status/1050690830879641600) > [](https://twitter.com/StansaidAirport/status/1050684649280802817) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/"},"headline":"Sarah Ferguson's Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Takeoff","datePublished":"2018-10-12T14:50:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:27.398Z","description":"While most ogled at the grand display of love during the royal wedding, some were side-tracked by the mother of the bride Sarah Ferguson.","url":"https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","World","royals","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f6f83a039d0ec65/69893c82db29879bd6260efc/gettyimages-1051949272.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Precious Adesina","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/precious-adesina/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f6f83a039d0ec65/69893c82db29879bd6260efc/gettyimages-1051949272.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Princess Eugenie Of York Marries Mr. Jack Brooksbank","caption":"Princess Eugenie Of York Marries Mr. Jack Brooksbank","creditText":"WPA Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5423123/sarah-ferguson-royal-wedding/","name":"Sarah Ferguson's Royal Wedding Hat Is Ready For Takeoff"}}]}] ```