Princess Beatrice will turn 37 on Friday, August 8, and over the years, she's faced her fair share of criticism when it comes to style. Her headline-making hat at Prince William and Kate Middleton's 2011 wedding might have made Beatrice and her younger sister, Princess Eugenie, into memes, but Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's eldest daughter continued to experiment with bold prints and quirky accessories throughout the early 2000s. In recent years, there's been a shift in Beatrice's wardrobe toward more sophisticated styles, and although she's now praised as one of the best-dressed royals, the princess hasn't lost her sense of "whimsy."
Speaking on behalf of Fruity King, fashion writer Lauren Bulla pointed out that "a big part of the criticism" that Beatrice received for her outfits "was purely to do with the fact that she was growing up in the public eye." The royal's "experimentation" with fashion also fit into the trends in the early aughts, with Bulla calling some of her more mocked outfits "very of their time."
