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Lady Jane Hatt[1][2] is Sir Topham Hatt's wife. She is very kind towards the engines.
Biography[]
Lady Hatt occasionally helps her husband with railway business, and the engines sometimes go to extreme lengths to help throw parties for her birthday. She likes the railway but had a certain dislike for Annie and Clarabel until they were cleaned and repainted. Although her husband runs a railway, she likes a day out on a boat or in their car.
Percy once had the job of taking Lady Hatt to Great Waterton for a surprise; to see the brass band.
On one Valentine's Day, Lady Hatt was given a pet cat and bunches of roses by her husband and then was showered with beautiful lights.
Personality[]
The engines are extremely fond of her and like when she visits the railway or rides in one of their coaches. A kind and gentle woman, Lady Hatt usually praises the engines for their good deeds.
However, at times Lady Hatt can be prone to complaining. She complained about Annie and Clarabel's poor state saying they looked like beach huts and she also got upset when her husband suggested taking a hot air balloon to the grand opening of Rumblin Bridge.
Attire[]
In the first series, Lady Hatt's original outfit consisted of a white top with a light blue blouse with matching trousers. Her hair was also short.
In the third series, Lady Hatt was portrayed wearing a blue button-down. However, the rest of her attire is not shown. Her figure also slimmed and remains the appearance from the third series onwards.
In the book Stop, Train, Stop!, Lady Hatt briefly was shown wearing a purple outfit containing a light purple T-shirt and a dark purple skirt strapped in a black belt.
In the fifth series, as well as a portrait image cameo in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, her attire consisted of a pink shirt with an indigo sweater with a white pearl necklace. However, in Lady's Hatt's Birthday Party, she was seen wearing a pink evening gown in the ending sequence.
From the seventh series onwards, Lady Hatt's outfit consists of a blue dress combined with a white trim sweater with a pink heart pin, with matching shoes, and matching hat with a pink hatband and matching flower.
In the tenth series episodes The Green Controller and in a cameo in Topped Off Thomas, Lady Hatt's appearance temporarily changed; the outfit she had on was a light blue two-button dress with a beige hat with a black hatband. She has ever since returned to her seventh series onwards outfit. However, her model that was used in these episodes was reused in the crowd in the eleventh series episode, Toby's Triumph.
Family Tree[]
| Grandfather Hatt † | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Hatt † | Dowager Hatt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sir Handel Brown | Lady Jane Hatt | Sir Topham Hatt | Sir Lowham Hatt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Barbara Jane Hatt | Charles Topham Hatt | Amanda Croarie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stephen Topham Hatt | Bridget Amanda Hatt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Appearances[]
Official Description[]
From Official Website:[1][2][3]
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Trivia[]
- According to the fifth series episode Lady Hatt's Birthday Party, Lady Hatt's birthday is during the summer.
- Lady Hatt is the only human character to have a name card.
- According to the eleventh series episode Thomas and the Runaway Car, Lady Hatt's favourite colour is "Hatt Blue" which is also the colour of the Fat Controller's car.
- In the Magazines, Lady Hatt is commonly referred to as "Lady Topham Hatt". This was what the Wooden Railway range called her as well. She is also occasionally mistaken for Dowager Hatt.
- For example, as she was mentioned in the nineteenth series episode Who's Geoffrey?, her husband also mentions her in the Czech dubbing as Dowager Hatt.
- Lady Hatt's appearance has changed drastically throughout the series:
- In the third series, Lady Hatt's appearance changed almost entirely as she gained longer hair, lost her irises, started wearing eyeshadow, and donned a blouse.
- In the seventh series, she had less makeup on.
- From the twelfth series onwards, she had red lipstick.
- Her eye colour has also changed several times. They were blue in the first series, black in the third to ninth series, blue again in the tenth series episode The Green Controller, black again from the rest of the tenth series until The Great Discovery, and brown from the twelfth series onwards.
- In the French dub:
- Lady Hatt was referred to as "Mme Gibus", Miss Gibus in English, during the first five series. Referring to her husband's hat, the gibus is a version of the common top hat, created at Limoges in France, which can be bended for easy storage.
- After the first five series, Lady Hatt was never called by her name, but was referred to as the Fat Controller's wife.
- In the book, Thomas and Toby, Sir Topham Hatt and Lady Hatt are illustrated with three grandchildren, as opposed to two. This being an older granddaughter with blonde hair.
Merchandise[]
- ERTL (discontinued)
- Wooden Railway (discontinued)
- Brio (discontinued)
- Trading Cards (discontinued)
- Departing Now (discontinued)
- Take Along (sold with Wellsworth station; discontinued)
- Bachmann (coming soon)
- Lionel Trains (picture in Wellsworth set)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 T&F - The Big Book of Engines - Lady Hatt's page
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2013.07.02 - THO Character Bios
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Trading Cards (2002) - Lady Hatt
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 RWS "Sodor: Reading Between the Lines" (2005)
- ↑ T&F - Thomas and Friends Writers' Bible (2003)
