 Journalist and social historian Anne de Courcy has written of Chamberlain that " he did not smoke a pipe , nor , as Anthony Eden did , always wear the same distinctive hat , though cartoonists made the most of his ever @-@ present umbrella " . ( On Guy Fawkes Night 1938 the future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , then a rebellious Conservative MP , burned an image of Chamberlain with rolled umbrella , which he topped with his own Homburg . ) In fact , as photographs from the late 1930s onwards show , Eden frequently wore no hat at all . This was a habit that he shared with few other public men at the time . It was one of several aspects of modernity noted by John Betjeman in his poem on the death in 1936 of King George V , who , like Edward VII before him , had worn a Homburg for shooting : 
