LONDON (AP).- Online auctioneer eBay says that bids for one of the wackiest pieces of royal wedding headgear have approached 18,400 pounds ($30,000.) Princess Beatrice’s massive, ring-and-bow-shaped hat, turned heads at the wedding of her cousin Prince William last month and has since become an Internet sensation. The Philip Treacy creation has been compared to a toilet seat or a pretzel, and has been endlessly photoshopped to feature, for example, a cat crawling through it.
Beatrice has taken the joke in stride, featuring some of the most startling hat-inspired works on the eBay website. Money from the hat’s sale is going to the UNICEF and Children in Crisis charities. She said she hoped whoever bought the hat would