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World leaders in silly hats
As if the job of being a president, prime minister, premier or prince isn't tough enough, there are times you have to jam something bizarre on your head.
This is George W Bush in a cowboy hat.
Here's Bush again, clearing trees from his Texas ranch with a cowboy hat on his head and a secret service earpiece.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is wearing a cloth hat.
But it's dwarfed by the fluff on Chechnyan president Akhmad Kadyrov's head.
No-one looks more ridiculous in a silly hat than Britain's Prince Charles. In 1996, he donned a Kyrgyz ka-kalpak.
And in the same year, wore this traditional Uzbek number.
Here he is with wife Camilla, also fond of silly hats, at Royal Ascot in 2007.
And wearing a Rastafarian hat ... sort of.
The love of silly hats may have come from his dad, Prince Philip, shown here with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah.
He, in turn, has passed it on to his son Harry, who donned an akubra in Australia in 2003.
And frequently wears an officer's hat in the British Army.
When Harry (right) gets together with his brother William, things get very silly.
Here's Prince William with father Charles, trying to gain some street cred. Word.
Princess Beatrice invents the eyebrow fascinator.
Princess Margaret teemed her silly hat with silly glasses and a ridiculous cigarette holder.
Princess Diana wore this Catherine Walker outfit to meet a Saudi prince.
Nothing but fur is good enough for macho Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Not to be outdone, his guest Silvio Berlusconi wore one too.
And a shotgun.
Then combines the shotgun with the bowler hat.
Here's Hussein taking on a tiger.
Nelson Mandela donned an akubra in Australia in 2000.
And somehow looked dignified in this Basoto hat in Lesotho.
The University of Sydney awarded him an honorary doctorate for preaching peace throughout the world ... often while wearing silly hats.
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard often wore an akubra while visiting the bush.
But there was only one hat the cricket tragic really wanted to wear.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin dons a straw hat in Africa.
And in a tricornered Colonial hat in the United States.
He obviously didn't get the memo that cowboy hats are the only acceptable forms of headwear in the United States, as modelled here by former president Bill Clinton.
Unless you're playing golf, of course.
Or going to university.
At a hospital fundraiser.
Or working in the field.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez auditions for an 80s dance group in this Andean hat.
And brings some colour his campaign in this Mexican number.
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin fittingly wears a bear hat.
Former British Prime Minister Maggie Thatcher in a racing hat.
Thabo Mbeki dons an akubra.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prefers more traditional headwear.
Indonesian President Suharto wears a veteran hat.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Mexican President Vicente Fox.
Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett has his Australian slouch hat adjusted.
Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri wears a special forces hat.
Queensland's own Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen was fond of the straw farmer's hat.
Indonesian President BJ Habibie's hat is about to blow when he eats this chilli.
George Engelbach dressed as Abraham Lincoln, who was famous for his hat.
John Curtin found the pitfalls of wearing a hat during this public rally in 1942.
It appears this one is so big it's blocking Fidel Castro's ears.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien uncomfortably donned a cowboy hat in 1996.
Australia's own top dog Stanley Bruce wasn't shy of a top hat.
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