Model Jodie Kidd arrives for Ladies' Day as she continues in her role as BBC TV fashion correspondent at Royal Ascot

Countdown star Carol Vorderman makes the trip to the Berkshire course complete with a wide-brimmed straw hat

The selection of hats grows more varied with these ladies sporting some extravagant equine creations

The Queen braves the murky weather as she arrives in an open carriage wearing a beige and chocolate-coloured hat

The Norfolk Stakes opens proceedings with Jimmy Fortune claiming his fifth winner of the meeting on Winker Watson

4-1 shot Silkwood streaks clear of favourite All My Loving in the Ribblesdale Stakes to earn a win for jockey Philip Robinson

Racegoers rush to place bets as the Gold Cup approaches with last year's winner Yeats looking to make it a double

Mick Kinane pushes the favourite in the home straight and Yeats responds to win the Gold Cup from the grey Geordieland

Kinane celebrates after six-year-old Yeats becomes the 10th horse to win the Gold Cup more than once

Richard Hills, in the blue and white cap, leads favourite Zaham to victory from Al Shemali in the Hampton Court Stakes

Zara Phillips enjoys the final few races with her grandmother on the royal balcony as the sun returns on Midsummer's Day