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
Patrick Treacy in Cork in 2005. In April 2016, the High Court in Dublin granted a possession order over Treacy's clinic buildings in favour of a bank-appointed receiver. In June 2016, Treacy made a €137,897 settlement with the Irish Revenue as a result of unpaid taxes, interest and penalties. Treacy met Michael Jackson in 2006 after Jackson sought him for cosmetic treatment after reading about his experience with HLA fillers and his charitable work in Africa. He was Jackson's personal dermatologist and developed a friendship with the singer. Treacy and Jackson worked on humanitarian projects together. In 2011, Treacy became an ambassador