![Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway attends the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill in Stockholm on June 8, 2013 (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst01.jpg?resize=1200%2C791&ssl=1)
As we roll into February, it’s time to focus on the month’s gorgeous birthstone: the amethyst. Today, we’re looking at the tiara and jewels from the Norwegian Amethyst Parure.
![Princess Martha Louise of Norway attends the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden in Stockholm on June 19, 2010 (Jack Abuin/Zuma Press/Alamy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst02.jpg?resize=1200%2C1754&ssl=1)
The amethyst and diamond parure consists of several pieces: a convertible necklace/tiara, a pair of earrings with removable drops, a ring, two bracelets that can be combined and worn together as a second necklace, and a brooch that can also be attached as a part of the bracelet-necklace.
The provenance of the set has never been shared by the Norwegian royal family. While some have speculated that it may have been was a gift to Queen Sonja from her husband, King Harald V of Norway, others disagree. The jewelry historian Trond Noren Isaksen posits in his book, Ingrid Alexandras Arv, that the amethyst set was acquired from Garrard in the 1990s as a replacement for another jewel, a pink tourmaline tiara that had been purchased from the descendants of Countess Estelle Bernadotte. Isaksen writes that the tourmaline tiara, like Queen Maud’s Pearl Tiara, was stolen in the raid on Garrard’s London headquarters in February 1995.
![King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway attend a gala on the eve of Crown Prince Haakon's wedding to Mette-Marit Tjessem Hoiby, August 2001 (Anthony Harvey/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst04.jpg?resize=1200%2C1998&ssl=1)
Queen Sonja wore the entire set at the gala held the night before the wedding of her son, Crown Prince Haakon, in 2001. She pinned the brooch to the center of her gown’s neckline, and she stacked both bracelets on her right arm.
![Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway attend a gala performance on the night before the wedding of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark in Copenhagen, May 13, 2004 (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst03.jpg?resize=1200%2C1802&ssl=1)
For years, the queen was the primary wearer of this piece, sporting it as both a necklace and a tiara. In recent years, however, she appears to have either given or permanently loaned the parure to her daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Mette-Marit. There’s some speculation that it might have a gift in celebration of the birth of Mette-Marit’s daughter and the heir to the throne, Princess Ingrid Alexandra. Above, Mette-Marit makes an early appearance in the amethysts during the Danish royal wedding festivities in May 2004.
![Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and the Duke of Edinburgh are pictured before a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in London on October 25, 2005 (Matt Dunham/PA Images/Alamy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst06.jpg?resize=822%2C1455&ssl=1)
The crown princess generally wears the piece as a tiara, not as a necklace. Above, she wears the tiara for an important state visit to London in October 2005. (The British and Norwegian royals are close cousins; King Harald’s father, Olav, was the son of a British princess, and he was born on the Sandringham estate.) Mette-Marit selected the amethyst tiara for the grand state banquet at Buckingham Palace.
![Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark attend a gala performance celebrating Queen Margrethe II of Denmark's 70th birthday in Copenhagen on April 15, 2010 (Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst05.jpg?resize=1200%2C1799&ssl=1)
Crown Princess Mette-Marit, pictured here with Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, also wore the tiara during Queen Margrethe II of Denmark’s 70th birthday celebrations in the spring of 2010.
![Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway attends the wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Christopher O'Neill in Stockholm on June 8, 2013 (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst09.jpg?resize=1200%2C1803&ssl=1)
But Mette-Marit’s highest-profile outing in the amethysts to date was probably the grand royal wedding of Princess Madeleine of Sweden in June 2013.
![Princess Martha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn attend the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden in Stockholm on June 19, 2010 (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1803&ssl=1)
Crown Princess Mette-Marit is the most frequent wearer of the amethyst set, but other Norwegian royals also have access to the jewels. Princess Märtha Louise donned the amethyst parure, including the tiara and the bracelet-necklace, at the 2010 wedding of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. While Mette-Marit features sleek hairstyles, Märtha Louise backed this tall necklace tiara with an impressive hairstyle, providing the amethysts with a substantial brunette backdrop. For me, this was probably the most successful outing of the set to date.
![Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway arrives for a state banquet in honor of President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania at the Royal Palace in Oslo on February 13, 2024 (Ørn E. Borgen/NTB/Alamy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-0215-01-norway10.jpg?resize=1200%2C1663&ssl=1)
Today, Crown Princess Mette-Marit continues to be the primary wearer of the amethyst set. She’s pictured above wearing the jewels in February 2024 for a state banquet in Oslo in honor of the President of Tanzania.
![Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway toasts during her 28th birthday gala dinner in Oslo on June 17, 2022 (HAKON MOSVOLD LARSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2024-0222-02-amethyst08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1388&ssl=1)
But there’s another amethyst-wearer waiting in the wings. During her 18th birthday celebrations in June 2022, Princess Ingrid Alexandra wore the brooch from the suite pinned to her order sash. Could she be the next Norwegian royal lady to give the tiara a try, too?
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