The Priceless Treasures Of The Royal Family | Royal Jewels | Real Royalty

on a cold November morning a

royal

procession leaves Buckingham Palace on a journey to Westminster her majesty the queen is on her way to open her parliament following her in another carriage it is one of the greatest symbols of her reign the imperial state crowns the pomp and ceremony of his arrival at Westminster is matched only by other images of his monarchy throughout his long reign. She has welcomed many kings and queens, presidents and foreign guests. This is the mystery and magic of monarchy on display. The least known part of these occasions is the queen's

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. which far eclipse any other collection in the modern world the story of fabulous diamonds and glittering tiaras worn by beautiful princesses offers a glimpse into the fascinating world of the queen's personal jewelery collection on display the queen is supported by a dazzling array of glittering tiaras, rubies and emeralds the majesty of the monarchy encompasses

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diamonds and other precious stones that adorn

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treasuries for centuries, kings and queens have used these symbols in pursuit of their birthright and royal inheritance centuries ago, when the crown of Saint Edward was used for coronations in which the

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were rented.

Today they are

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and when Prince Charles wears the crown for his coronation it will be a difficult moment as it weighs almost four pounds and is made of gold, contains 444 precious stones and when Prince Charles's grandfather was crowned in 1937, Archbishop of Canterbury had to have a very firm hand to place it on the king's head for ease of use. The crown is padded on a velvet band, a royal custom introduced by King Henry IV 500 years ago, after his coronation, the

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of the king met wearing a variety of many crowns these are symbols of the monarchy, they must be worn and seen to be symbols of the monarchy in 1937 Queen Elizabeth wore her crown containing the legendary Kohinoor diamond in 1902 the wife of King Edward VII Queen Alexandra had a crown containing the Kohinoor Diamond The Queen Consort's crown today is set with diamonds belonging to Queen Victoria, but it is the legend of the Kohinoor Diamond that makes it so prominent at the coronation in 1902 The crown contained the kohinoor and 3688 diamonds if charles and diana had stayed together diana would have worn the queen consort's crown at her husband's coronation.

The coenor diamond, meaning mountain of light, has a long and dramatic history surrounding the gemstone's male owners. The diamond itself has a horrendous history of murder, mayhem and mystery because it is everywhere. For centuries it was sought after by several powerful kings. Shah Jahan owned it and built the Taj Mahal for his wife Mumtaz Nadya Shah sacked New Delhi and took it back to Persia, then became part of the Afghan royal

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where his brother was blinded by his brother so that he would not did. I don't see it that way in folklore, there is a myth that every male owner meets a difficult end, so to be sure it has always been used by women.

This diamond is estimated to be the largest top color modern cut diamond in the world. The current value is 50 million pounds. It is one of the cut gemstones of the Cullinan diamond which was a gift to King Edward VII as a token of loyalty from the Transvil people at the end of the Boer War. The rough diamond weighed an astonishing amount and a half-pounder was gifted to the nation by the Transvaal government. It was found in 1905 cut in 1907 and then added to the crown jewels to enhance their value. This immense diamond had to be carefully cut into as many pieces as possible.

It was given and entrusted to Josef Asher of Amsterdam, who was then probably the best diamond cutter in the world to cut it into several large stones and then into smaller stones, and he studied the stone for three four months and before deciding to cut it. Of course, he invited the Dutch royal family, the English royal family and several others and then he struck the first blow and of course, if he judged it wrong, it would have broken like a car windshield, but since it didn't, It fell perfectly into two pieces and apparently painted after that, the largest piece extracted from the powerful Kalanin diamond is the pear-shaped Star of Africa which weighs 530 carats, it is the most valuable stone of the crown jewels and, as part of the coronation insignia, is held in the right hand of the sovereign as a gift to the nation it has to be displayed to be seen somewhere and this is how it was decided to put the second largest diamond in the scepter of the crown jewels which was cut from the cullinan is on the imperial state crown was made in 1838 for the coronation of queen victoria and is set with gems of striking magnificence.

The Queen wore it on her coronation day in 1953. The Imperial State Crown contains the Black Prince Ruby brought back to England in 1367 and later added to the Crown Jewels by the King. Henry VIII below is the huge second star of Africa with emeralds and sapphires for his coronation. The queen supports the powerful weight of the imperial state crown despite having been altered to reduce the height. The crown still contains 2,800 diamonds each year. The queen uses it. the state opening of parliament has been traditionally used over the centuries the monarch has always opened parliament since victoria essentially the same crown has been used it has been modified even renewed but in essence the state crown has been the same for the last hundred five hundred and fifty to sixty years of her throne in the house of lords the queen describes the legislation of her government the third and fourth diamonds to be cut from the culinan have traditionally been part of the queen consort's crown known as the minor stars of africa The gems can be removed from the crown and worn separately they were brought by King Edward VII and to this day are the personal property of the Queen in 1911 the Queen's grandmother Queen Mary wore them on her dress as a brooch her estimated value today is 12 million pounds in 1937 Queen Mary wore them Pinned to the front of her dress at the coronation of her son, King George VI, alongside her were her grandchildren, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret .

The queen often wears the minor stars of Africa as a brooch along with another stone cut from the Cullinan diamond that she wears. as a ring one of the queen's favorite jewels is the heart shaped diamond brooch cut from the cullinan, two more cullens and diamonds were used to create another magnificent brooch, they were taken from the crown jewels and are in royal possession because They always were the monarch's personal pieces. In 1897, Queen Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee and was photographed wearing her diamond necklace and earrings. The estimated value today is one and a half million pounds.

The queen often wears the necklace at the state opening of parliament. in 1858 and the pendant stone is known as Lahore diamond. The diamond drops found on the earrings and the drop and bottom of the necklace actually come from the Timor ruby ​​necklace that the East Indies gave to Queen Victoria in 1851. They are now part of the company's jewels. crown these early images from the turn of the century capture queen victoria at balmoral in scotland in 1911 her life was commemorated with the unveiling of a commemorative statue in front of buckingham palace sitting on her throne the old queen she is depicted wearing one of her crowns favorites when she succeeded her uncle, King William IV, to the throne in 1837.

Her crown was set with stones from the reign of her ancestor, King George the First, including the black prince ruby ​​and many brilliant pearls and fine sapphires. Later, she ordered Garadz, the crown jewelers, to make her a new, smaller crown. She weighed only four ounces and sat perfectly on the top of her head. Queen Victoria suffered from migraines in later life and found that the crown was too heavy, so in her garage they made a small, very small crown for her to wear. It is always worked on the top of the head or the back of the bun with or without the bows.

Her beautiful little diamond crown made in 1870 became the trademark of her reign. By her marriage to Prince Albert of Sax Cobra Gotha, the couple were deeply devoted to each other and their marriage was extremely happy. Sadly, when Albert died, the Queen was only 42 years old and for the rest of her life he cherished the wedding gift she gave him. large sapphire brooch topped with a dozen diamonds queen victoria called it the albert brooch and more than 100 years later her great great granddaughter the queen wears it regularly on her lapel the albert brooch is a very charming piece that prince albert had made for Queen Victoria and I gave it to her the night before the wedding when they got engaged here in London and it is a wonderful sapphire and a beautiful piece and I think the very romantic Princess Elizabeth wore Albert's brooch to Princess Anne's christening in Buckingham Palace, his mother and his grandmother, the queen.

Maria had also used it on many occasions during a visit to her estate in the northwest of England. The Queen's tenant farmers were able to see one of the most precious personal

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in the royal jewelery collection up close. Its estimated value today is £150,000. A treasured keepsake from her great-great-grandmother Another keepsake from Queen Victoria's time is her 1887 gold wedding necklace containing exquisite diamond circles around the pearl center with a pearl pendant 50 years ago, the Queen was filmed wearing it in the premiere of a film Victoria's ancestor, King George IV, owned a diamond crown decorated with shamrocks, thistles and rented precious stones.

The King of Hanover did not wear this diadem at his coronation because she considered herself too effeminate to wear it on such an important occasion. George the fourth coronation. The new crown. was made and she was under strict orders from parliament about what she could have on her crown, so she decided she would have bouquets of flowers between the Maltese crosses, the bouquets representing England, Scotland and Ireland. Actually, he didn't wear it to his coronation because it was originally considered too feminine. It would have been set with semi-precious stones which would have been contracted to jewelers for the coronation because in those days they could not afford to have crowns and diadems set with

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stones and keep them. then the jewelers came in and they were all the jewels that were rented and sent back later if these jewels were left in the crowns, the sovereign would have pawned them, would have skipped them to pay gambling debts or would have given them lovers in those days as a measure of caution. against theft queen victoria soldered her jewels into the hanoverian diadem and to this day most of them are still in place at the annual opening of state parliament the queen arrives with the hanoverian diadem wears it leaving buckingham palace traveling in the carriage to the Lords House, then up the grand staircase to the rope room where she removes her crown, diadem and then puts on the state's highest imperial crown on her wedding day in 1947.

Princess Elizabeth wore another relic of her German ancestors, the Hanoverian fringed tiara. The tiara worn by Princess Elizabeth is known as the Hanoverian tiara and was in fact designed and manufactured in 1830 for Queen Victoria. It was made from old diamonds from the time of George III and she was creating this wonderful tiara that was quite pointed and quite tall. It can also be worn as a necklace. Interestingly, the royal family is very, very good with their jewelry. They can be used for many different things. Anyway, Queen Victoria had it made in 1830 and left it to the crown and Queen Mary wore it.

There are photographs. of Queen Mary wearing it and then Princess Elizabeth wearing it for her wedding because she borrowed it from her mother on Princess Elizabeth's wedding day. Two unforeseen things happened, one was that the beautiful Hanoverian diamond tiara actually broke the frame, which is a nightmare situation for anyone, but of course, unlike everyone, she actually had the jeweler in the house cut waiting, but in her workshop, and they had to send it to DoubleSwift to come and fix the thing and I think she was very, very nervous and had to be calmed down by her mother and she also wanted to use the double row, the famous double row of pearls that had been given to her by her parents, her father, I believe, a fortune teller on her wedding day and were on display with the rest of the

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. presence that was extremely uncomfortable, so in London, which was paralyzed by traffic problems, his newly appointed private secretary, John Colville, was sent across London to obtain these

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pearls and somehow bring them back to Buckingham Palace.

In fact, he persuaded them to give him the pearls. I imagine they said harsh words. He had to commandeer one of the royal limousines belonging to King Harkin of Norway to somehow get through and deliver them to the bride to be there on her wedding day in 1973, Princess Anne. She wore the fringed Hanoverian tiara that had lent hisgrandmother. It had adorned many royal heads since it was originally set with diamonds over 150 years ago at another royal wedding in 1893. Princess Mary of Tech married the future King George V, later as Queen Mary this woman would have a devastating effect In the history of royal jewels, this tiara, a gift from the girls of Great Britain, was one of their favorite wedding gifts, bought for five thousand pounds, its estimated value today is half a million pounds, light on the head, easy to wear, inherited from its grandmother the queen wears it constantly on official occasions affectionately known as grandmother's tiara it has nine large oriental pearls tipped with diamonds set on a bandai base of 27 brilliant diamonds encased in a metal band tiaras are a symbol of authority is a symbol of power.

Therefore, when the queen wears her crown, it is a fact. I am the queen, I am the head and when a lady wears a hat, she must feel that she must feel very important or a gentleman. Wearing a top hat, for example, is a symbol of class authority, perhaps the obsession of Queen Mary wearing the family jewels that reflect images of the monarchy in recent times At the beginning of her marriage, Princess Diana transformed some royal emeralds into a striking diadem The emeralds belong to Queen Mary, who left them to her granddaughter the queen known as the cambridge emeralds her story is intriguing queen mary's mother the duchess of cambridge and her husband adolphus acquired them in germany in a rather unusual way they went to frankfurt on a tour and there was a lottery for a charity and The Duchess of Cambridge decided that yes, she would buy some tickets and she actually won and was presented with this brown box full of these emeralds.

The Duchess of Cambridge gave the globular green cabochon gems to her son. Frank, who gave them to his lover when he died suddenly, his sister Mary wasted no time getting them back, he was a real nerd, well he was a big player, you know, he had a bit of that Irish talk in him and he spilled Jules about his lover. and Queen Mary, her sister was having none of it, he died quite suddenly and she was horrified to discover that the Cambridge emeralds, the family emeralds, had been given to her Irish mistress. . She's gone, can't you imagine her tiara on her head? the great queen mary and she recovered those emeralds years later the queen wears the Cambridge emeralds suspended in a very valuable Russian tiara her guests were unaware of the story attached to the contents of her headdress at the festival of Africa 95 princess diana proved that she was not a prisoner of the past transforming her emeralds into a necklace and earrings again Diana was very inventive, very original in the way she used these beautiful emeralds and historical stones and she had great courage, she was not in all of them and she took the Cambridge emeralds and turned them again in a choker a pretty narrow choker that she also wore again it's a very twenties style bandeau um it was a very young and exciting look and she wore the bandeau around her head during the Australian tour when she took the floor she was swept away by Prince Charles and again there is a very memorable image of the young Princess of Wales in 1911.

King George and Queen Mary were crowned Emperor and Empress of India. The queen was showered with gifts of Indian jewels which she mixed with Cambridge emeralds. to create a peru valued at 2 million pounds at current prices for the occasion a crown was made especially for the king containing a fabulous variety of extraordinarily fine emeralds, sapphires, rubies and more than six thousand diamonds sent from india the crown imperial was created especially for the daily derba in 1911 george v was the first and only british monarch who was actually crowned emperor of india in india in november 1911 and it was simply the most amazing event of the day and therefore, A new crown had to be made because the crowns of England may never leave the coast of this country by act of parliament, therefore we have a new crown.

Can you imagine one of those Indian celebrations where people arrive on howling elephants when I say people, I mean maharaja type people and when there is someone fanning you? from behind on this hot day and you are sitting under an extraordinary throne, probably the throne itself is decorated with jewels. This is what Queen Mary and King George V went through at the beginning of their reign, when India was the most important part of the future community and the Maharajas came to them bearing these incredible jewels as gifts. Queen Mary received emeralds in her own right from the Indian people and turned them into fantastic jewels.

She mixed them with Cambridge emeralds to make different parua diana. one of the emerald sets and Prince Charles bought her an art deco emerald and diamond bracelet to go with it, as if he didn't know much about his young wife, he didn't know she didn't like emeralds elsewhere, a smell of cambridge. the emeralds are in the air pinned to the queen's lapel there is an emerald brooch surrounded by two circles of diamonds out of service and on the queen she wears a brooch of the duchess of cambridge with 14 diamonds cut at the beginning of the century the royal family Nicholas II was married to Alex, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, and the young Tsar Nicholas and King George were cousins ​​who vacationed when they were young and spent many happy times together during a trip to Russian waters in 1908.

They were filmed aboard the royal yacht in the company of other members of their families but the storm clouds of the revolution were blowing and with the assassination of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks in 1918 the royal relatives escaped all the corners of europe the grand duchess vladimir fled to switzerland carrying her jewels members of the russian royal family who were unlucky and had nothing but their jewels to support themselves, she sold them privately, they were not very practical people, the grand duchess olga She was a woman who had never had to deal with money and of course, Of course, it seems like a blessing when Queen Mary comes saying, let me sort it out for you.

I know this jeweler and of course I would love to have them and she chose the Russian jewelry if she ever paid for it in full. at the right price is very doubtful, although I think a lot was given in kind to these exiled Russian relatives, they had homes of grace and favor as some of the minor royals have today, so perhaps there was compensation there , but in terms of real jewelry. Queen Mary did not pay all the money Among the jewels acquired by Queen Mary was the tiara of Grand Duchess Vladimir, the Queen inherited it in 1951 and has worn it on many state occasions and consists of 15 circles of diamonds intertwined with a interchangeable swinging pearl in each, estimated to be worth £2 million at current prices Other Russian jewelery purchased by Queen Mary included a cabochon sapphire brooch surrounded by two rows of diamonds with a pearl hanging from a diamond necklace in 1929 Queen Mary purchased a diamond chain choker belonging to the Dowager Empress Mary of Russia The fall of the Russian royal family helped fuel Queen Mary's obsession with jewelry Her passion for jewelry was second to none and was expressed through his mania for collecting when he died in 1953 he bequeathed his jewels to his children and grandchildren fourth son george the duke of kent married princess marina the granddaughter of the grand duchess vladimir the duke's family inherited a variety of valuable russian jewels, including a pointed russian tiara that princess michael of kent inherited from her mother-in-law queen mary's third son duke henry of gloucester and his family inherited an exquisite diamond tiara that once belonged to the dowager empress mary of russia the young duchess of Gloucester wears it for official functions on other occasions she has been photographed wearing diamonds and pearls inherited from distant Russian relatives the Russian kokoshnik fringed tiara comprises 61 platinum ingots encrusted with 488 diamonds made in the shape of a peasant headdress this was a gift to the princess alexander on behalf of the ladies of society on her silver wedding anniversary in 1888 a similar one was worn by alex the tsarina of russia princess alexander is photographed wearing one for her wedding anniversary at marlborough house to accompany it, she wore two exquisite floret earrings with large central diamonds surrounded by slightly smaller ones.

Queen Mary inherited the kokushnik tiara from her mother-in-law and passed it on to the queen who wears it. The formal occasions on which she entertains other heads of state do not always coincide. In 1995, the Queen's state visit to Russia raised the very delicate issue of what jewellery, if any, she should wear. cousins ​​the tsars for the first time when thanks to her grandmother queen mary was able to choose her best jewelry at home in a vault her trip to russia included moscow and a visit to a gala performance at the bolshoi ballet during the stopover it was a deliberate choice To wear the sapphire and diamond parou she had received as a wedding gift from her father instead of choosing any of her inherited Russian jewelry, the queen really didn't want to offend anyone by not wearing something that might have upset them, so La jewelry collection was examined very carefully, it is the same wherever you go and if you go to Canada, Australia, it is always good on that occasion to wear something that that country has given you, but since the jewelry came from Russia in kind.

Due to somewhat mysterious circumstances, the queen did not want to bother anyone, so she completely stayed away from all Russian jewelry and in fact wore the sapphire and diamonds at the bolshoi ballet when it was actually there at the um bolshoi theater when the queen walked. on the box and it was a ten minute standing ovation and I couldn't believe people appreciated it this way, I was absolutely overwhelmed, inspired by the design of a Russian lover's bow knot tiara, Queen Mary had a similar one Made consisting of 19 diamond bows Oriental pearl drops hang from a diamond lover's bow knot with individual diamonds and vertical pearl spikes The queen inherited it from her grandmother and gave it to Princess Diana as a wedding gift in the 19th century a lover's bow, not a tiara, it was a popular design you know, Queen Mary had all these relatives spread across Germany and Russia and she used to go in the summer, it was called the royal mob meeting, they used to go together on their summer holidays, to a very exclusive butlins or mediterranee club with only members of the royal family and then of course everyone dressed up for dinner in those days, full tiaras and Queen Mary would have seen the jewels she loved and the extra tiara was something Gerard had copied just before the first world. war in the Russian revolution of 1914 using jewels that are pearls, especially that they had given her as a wedding gift, but she had made them herself, she gave them to the queen, who barely wore them and then the queen gave them to the Princess Diana as future queen.

The groom's knot tiara is one of only two pieces of royal jewelry that Diana directly owned. It's part of her legacy. She used her own personality to make the tiara part of her image and the lovers were not the tiara, which was a wedding gift. I think Her Majesty Her Queen has created some of the most dramatic images of Diana that we will all remember and cherish. It's a big part of the legend of Diana in 1843. Queen Victoria appointed Garads as the crown jewelers, many of the royal jewels. They were made by Garrod's and when the future King Edward VII married Princess Alexandra in 1863, he gave her a brilliant ornate diamond and pearl necklace made by Garrod's.

It has eight circular groups of diamonds with large pearls in the center of each one. The matching earrings are now the property of the Queen and the elongated diamond brooch has belonged to the Queen Mother since her husband's accession to the throne in 1936. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has often worn Queen Alexandra's necklace here at a film premiere 50 years ago her elegant manner reflects the Majesty of the occasion, the queen personally paying the garage to care for her personal jewelry collection in his workshop. High quality gemstones are delicately crafted into stunning jewelery worth thousands of pounds.

Prince Charles paid the garage £28,000 for Princess Diana's diamond and sapphire engagement ring, which he inherited from his son, Prince William. In 1936, the future of the British monarchy was threatened when Uncle of the queen, king edward viii, abdicated to marry the twice-divorced lady wallace simpson, this constitutional crisis also led to a stranger seizing the royal jewels from the beginning wallis simpson received a stone in her engagement ring flawless that was half of one of the largest emeralds in the world. King Edward had commissioned jeweler Cartier to make the ring and, as a regular customer, was quoted a special price of ten thousand pounds equal to half.

A million today throughout his marriage, he celebrated their relationship by gifting his wife with numerous jewelry to create a priceless collection. Most of the jewelry he owned was purchased by the enamored future Duke of Windsor or was made from jewelry he owned. HEthey gave away in India, that is, rough stones, but they were not actually jewelry that they said Queen Victoria had worn. This was the collection that rivaled even the queens when the Duke of Windsor died. It was for the Duchess and, from then on, most of her. As I understand it, they went to an AIDS research charity and got a phenomenal price, something like 10 times what they expected because they had been owned by the Duchess of Windsor because this whole royal romance was connected to them, one of Wallace's favorite jewelry.

His ruby ​​necklace sold for more than a million and a half pounds to a mystery buyer at the 1987 Geneva auction, when the entire collection sold for a total of 27 million pounds. Among the buyers was clothing designer Calvin Klein, who bought four items for more than eight hundred and fifty million. seventy thousand pounds aaron spell dynasty television producer bought a necklace for his wife and elizabeth taylor bought the prince of wales diamond brooch for 350,000 pounds now worth an estimated 1 million pounds the jewels of the duchess of windsor Of course, they were now sold for charity. That's something I don't think we'll see from other members of the royal family, but some pieces managed to sneak back into the royal family.

You know, Princess Michael of Kent, who befriended the Duchess before she died, I think. Maybe she felt like a bit of an outsider and that's why they had something in common and she received a pair of panther earrings as a gift, those famous Cartier earrings and she wears them very occasionally, but I wouldn't do it. Imagine yourself in front of the queen, one of the queen mother's favorite pieces of jewelry is a royal indian tiara and necklace made by garads for queen victoria in 1853. It originally contained 2,670 diamonds and 70 opals, but queen alexander had the unfortunate opals removed and They replaced them with rubies. of an Indian necklace, the tiara and necklace belong to the state and are technically on loan to the Queen Mother in the line of duty, but her daughter, the Queen, is quoted as saying that Mama will return them to her one day at her wedding.

Princess Margaret at the 1960 coronation The glory of her dress was an unusual tiara. Margaret's tiara was interesting because it wasn't a piece of jewelry that had been passed down from generation to generation or from mother to daughter or anything like that, it was a tiara that had actually been purchased at Sotheby's by the royal family for £5,500 for those who want to know about lord baltimore and it was, it was, I'm sure it's still a very, very beautiful land, totally different from the tiara of Hanover, which is quite pointed and almost graphic. Margaret's hair was quite modern, I think it was called a chrysanthemum cut which is quite devastating nowadays and being so small or maybe I suspect also to give the tiara some depth, some kind of presence, it had a hairpiece and this is the first time.

Since we know that a royal bride wore a hairpiece on her wedding day, one of Princess Margaret's favorite possessions is the 1920s-style tiara she gave to her future daughter-in-law Serena Stanhope at her wedding to her son. Princess Margaret. Lord David Lindley Serena elegantly chose her jewelry and wore this simple second-hand royal tiara. It's very interesting how often all brides wink at something that has already happened, as if it were a small tribute, since we feel like something like that. that but it also gave her height and presence on her wedding day in her early years a young princess margaret was the princess diana of her time years later this darling of the media was replaced by another beautiful young woman princess diana had arrived to visit en Australia in 1983 wore a brilliant diamond necklace lent to her by the Queen, who had received it as a gift from King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in Great Britain at a banquet given by the Queen at Hampton Court Diana wore a large blue sapphire brooch ice surrounded with a double row of diamonds, a wedding gift from the Queen Mother.

Diana later redesigned the brooch to create a stunning diamond, sapphire and pearl choker, more in keeping with her modern image. At first she wore that huge set of sapphires and diamonds in a quite conventional way. quite traditional way and then, as her style developed, she began to impose her own personality, her own style to wear her jewelry in very new, fresh and original ways, and it became one of her signature pieces, especially towards the end of her life, when she started wearing those spectacularly sexy evening dresses with just one huge piece of jewelry. Another of Diana's wedding gifts, this time from the Saudi royal family, was a magnificent set of sapphires and diamonds.

One of her biggest wedding gifts came from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. and it was all about jewelry but her favorite piece in this suite was a diamond necklace from which she hung a huge Burmese sapphire surrounded by a much more modern style with baguette diamonds in a setting we call a ballerina setting. The most dramatic change she made to that outfit was to create a choker with sapphires on a velvet band that she wore not only as a choker but also as a band around her head around her forehead, 1920s style and this was something what she did was very funny she did it on several occasions on another occasion during an official visit to germany in 1986 diana wore a fabulous set of jewelery a gift from the sultan of oman which included a modern diamond necklace and matching earrings which was known as The million-pound half-moon set became one of Diana's favorites and she wore it with historic and contemporary jewellery.

Diana was very clever in mixing old and new, as I said, this was a very contemporary design and she used it very well with the spencer family tiara or with the love not tiara and because of that it created a very special look, very royal , very regal for her combining the old and the new in this way, a royal wedding and the family bring out her heirlooms for the queen, it was her magnificent flower brooch made with the largest pink diamond in the world the most perfect pink diamond in the world It was made into a daffodil flower brooch by Cartier and given to the Queen as a wedding gift by a Canadian millionaire.

Its estimated value today is three million pounds in 1893. The Queen's grandmother, Queen Mary, received it from the ladies. from Kensington as a wedding gift a diamond bow-shaped brooch with a large oriental pearl drop to celebrate her wedding. Ladies from various British cities presented her gifts at 30-minute intervals and bow brooches were popular offerings at her daughter's home. At her 1950 christening, Princess Elizabeth wore a bow-shaped brooch given to her grandmother by the ladies of Dorset. Bow-shaped brooches have been popular with

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since the 17th century and Gerard made a set of three using diamonds supplied by Queen Victoria.

Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary wore them at her coronations and the Queen is regularly seen wearing bow-shaped brooches inherited from her grandmother. Queen victoria was given a bow shaped brooch for her golden jubilee. Now her jubilee brooch is one of the Queen Mother's favorite pieces of jewelery and incorporates a bold, distinctive pearl and diamond flower. A diamond earring and a teardrop-shaped pearl wearing costume jewelry distanced Princess Diana from other members of the royal family. She frequented many fashion stores looking for ideas. Diana once bought an imaginative jeweled snake to wear at a pop concert. She preferred very classic things. but then she would try something like the snake, she would wear things that were quite adventurous, but she would always bring very classic things for this, you would see her wearing them all the time, she would bring little jeans that were French, crystal earrings, black French. glasses that she wore all the time or a fiver, so they weren't intrinsic things, it was because she wore things because they actually fit with what she was wearing another pair of famous earrings that she wore all the time were silver girl earrings just plain gold so she accessorized herself was so she could try things from the simplest to removing very exciting things a large star necklace or a wonderful star pinned to the back of her hair tiaras were a problem it's a long time to put it on to put on a tiara you need a lot of help it's heavy you have to comb your hair Diana complained that it gave her a headache and neck pain and I think at times when she had to get ready for a night out very early in the day she said she had to use it all through tea from daycare with her children, which must have been a little awkward.

Diana wore fashion jewelry for fun to complement her couture wardrobe. She owned some fine jewelry of her taste and during her life, she was never given a diamond necklace, so fake pearls were a convenient way to express herself. I think it's difficult to talk about Diana's jewelry or any of the Princess of Wales's jewelry without talking about pearls. She wasn't scared by the heritage of pearls in royal jewelery she wasn't scared by the protocol of experimenting with wearing pearls in different ways, but they are so tied to the legend of royalty and particularly to the Princess of Wales that again They became part of it. she is her trademark and there is one memorable occasion where again Diana used her famous wit and great sense of humour, which we know, was wearing a long rope of beautiful and sumptuous pearls knotted very casually at the back of a dress with a V that she would have had a soulmate in Queen Alexandra, who, can you believe it, despite her large jewelry collection, had fake pearls and lots of fake stones to make fun things for her and there is a funny story about how when was riding in one of those carriages, the pearl choker suddenly broke and the courtiers, in a panic, searched and tried to pick up each of the pearls that were falling.

Queen Alexandra sat there very serenely, as she might well have done because they were all false. The crown jewels of England belong to the state and are kept in the tower of London. Their value is incalculable. They represent much more than gold and precious stones. They represent hundreds of years of English history and have been used by kings and queens since the 17th century. The Queen's jewels are her personal property and their value is also almost incalculable; at current prices, she would make approximately £45 million not counting its historical provenance at auction, perhaps £300 million using the auction's criteria. jewels of the Duchess of Windsor in Paris since the days of Queen Victoria's empire and Queen Mary's mania for collecting royal jewels the royal family has amassed one of the largest fortunes in the world tiaras diadems and crowns have become their trademark on record we already have too much the queen told the marchioness of cambridge perhaps she feels that her jewels, like other royal

treasures

, are something she is guardian of while she is queen until they are passed on to the next generation of future royal brides.

It all started so well on Diana's wedding day that the new princess had to borrow her sister's pearl choker to wear on her honeymoon and another royal wedding. The future of royal jewels seemed bright. What went wrong. I often think of the queen's wisdom as a mother, grandmother and head of the family. It always baffled me that Diana wasn't given more royal jewels, and certainly Sarah the Duchess. From York he didn't get anything, he got some pieces that were bought in guards, I think he didn't give them because he suspected from the beginning that perhaps these marriages were going to be difficult and perhaps the jewels were withheld to give as a gift at the tenth wedding. anniversaries or wedding anniversaries 20 or 25 oh today more than ever july spells majesty when royalty is on display shine the jewels speak an international language generates for the people who wear them a feeling of overwhelming opulence social supremacy and confidence the jewels are in fact the true coin of royalty you