The much-mocked hat worn by Princess Beatrice to the royal wedding last month — widely described as looking like a toilet seat – sold for 81,100 pounds on eBay, charities which will benefit from the sale said.
The money will be equally split between UNICEF and Children in Crisis, which posted the auction results on their websites. The fuss over the hat worn to the royal wedding of her cousin Prince William to longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton seemed to have taken Beatrice – who is the daughter of William’s uncle Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson – by surprise. “I’ve been amazed by the amount of attention the hat has attracted,” Beatrice said on the auction site.