Philip Treacy with over 140,000 connections), and in July 2011 said: "In the future, we'll look back and think she looked wild". In a July 2018 Radio 4 Desert Island Discs interview, Treacy said: "There was a moment where I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London", from the controversy of the "pretzel hat". The hat resides at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Treacy designed over twenty hats worn at the 19 May 2018 Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, including by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and
Keith Treacy with Preston North End on 1 February 2010. Following his move to Preston, Treacy defended his move to Blackburn's arch-rivals, Preston North End, was only for to play football. Treacy made his Preston North End debut on 2 February 2010, in a 4-1 loss against Barnsley. He scored his first goal for the Lancashire outfit in a 3–1 defeat Crystal Palace on 5 April 2010, followed up by scoring and provided an assist, in a 3-2 win over Scunthorpe United five days later. In the second half of the season at Preston North End, Treacy scored twice in seventeen appearance.