![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attends the 2015 Man Booker Prize winners reception at The Guildhall on October 13, 2015 in London, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla02.jpg?resize=1200%2C851&ssl=1)
Queen Camilla already had an impressive collection of jewels at her disposal before her husband’s accession, and though that collection will surely grow in the coming years and months, I expect we’ll continue to see her use a favorite set of jewels: her numerous pieces from Van Cleef & Arpels.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall smiles during a visit to The Sandringham Flower Show 2022 at Sandringham on July 27, 2022 in King's Lynn, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla03.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
Over the past few weeks, many have been asking me for more information on the distinctive blue agate and gold bracelet that Queen Camilla wears on nearly all occasions these days. The bracelet comes from Van Cleef & Arpels, part of their Vintage Alhambra collection.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall smiles during a visit to The Sandringham Flower Show 2022 at Sandringham on July 27, 2022 in King's Lynn, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla04.jpg?resize=1052%2C1288&ssl=1)
Here’s a closer look at the bracelet, worn with four additional gold bracelets of similar size and design, from this year’s Sandringham Flower Show. Whether the blue and gold Magic Alhambra bracelet has particular sentimental meaning isn’t clear, but one thing’s for sure: Camilla absolutely loves to wear jewelry pieces from VC&A.
![The Duchess of Cornwall attends her first garden party since her marriage to the Prince of Wales, at Buckingham Palace, London July 19, 2005](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla05.jpg?resize=1200%2C860&ssl=1)
Camilla has been wearing and collecting Van Cleef & Arpels pieces for years. Here, she wears a pair of Cosmos clip brooches from the brand for her very first Buckingham Palace garden party in July 2005. One of the diamond brooches is set in yellow gold, and the other is set in white gold. You’ll note that she’s also wearing matching Cosmos earrings in this photograph.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attends a State Dinner at Jubilee House on day six of the royal trip to west Africa on November 5, 2018 in Accra, Ghana](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla06.jpg?resize=1200%2C1349&ssl=1)
She also has other matching jewels from the firm in her jewelry box. Here, for a state dinner in Ghana in November 2018, she wears a necklace and matching earrings from the Van Cleef & Arpels Snowflake line.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attends the 2015 Man Booker Prize winners reception at The Guildhall on October 13, 2015 in London, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1666&ssl=1)
She also has additional Magic Alhambra pieces in her collection, including these diamond earrings. She’s worn this for a number of different gala occasions. Here, she wears them for a reception in London honoring the Man Booker Prize winners in October 2015.
![Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall speaks to British singer Sam Smith (R) at a reception for British Oscar winners in central London on May 4, 2016](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1851&ssl=1)
She also owns a set of Magic Alhambra earrings and a coordinating necklace set with distinctive green malachites. She wears the suite here in May 2016 for a reception at Buckingham Palace honoring British winners of the Academy Award.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall attends a reception to launch The Great Get Together at Clarence House on February 22, 2017 in London, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla09.jpg?resize=1200%2C1698&ssl=1)
Camilla’s jewelry box also contains numerous other VC&A brooches. These are the firm’s Libellule dragonfly clip brooches, made of white gold set with diamonds and sapphires. Camilla wears them here in February 2017 for the launch of the Great Get Together at Clarence House.
![Detail of a brooch is seen as Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall prepares to unveil a plaque in Les Bourges Hospice on July 19, 2012 in St Peter's Port, United Kingdom](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla10.jpg?resize=1200%2C1576&ssl=1)
Here’s a close-up of the dragonfly brooches from another occasion (the Diamond Jubilee visit to Guernsey in 2012).
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall laughs as she visits Stevenson Campus Air Hanger on May 21, 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla11.jpg?resize=1200%2C1843&ssl=1)
Queen Camilla also owns a ballerina brooch from Van Cleef & Arpels. The original vintage brooches were made in the 1940s, part of a collaboration between Claude Arpels and George Balanchine. The design style was revived by the jeweler in 2007. Camilla wears her ballerina brooch here in Winnipeg in 2014.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (brooch detail) as she visits Stevenson Campus Air Hanger on May 21, 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla12.jpg?resize=1200%2C1578&ssl=1)
Here’s a closer look at the gold brooch, which is set with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall during a visit to Maggie’s at The Royal Marsden on February 06, 2020 in Sutton, Greater London](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla13.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
Over the past two years, Camilla has debuted several pieces from another VC&A range: the “Lucky Animals” line. Camilla wore one of these charming little animal brooches for the first time in February 2020. For a visit to Maggie’s at The Royal Marsden, she wore the malachite and lapis lazuli hummingbird brooch from the line.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall speaking during a visit to Bousfield Primary School to celebrate World Book Day on March 5, 2020 in London, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla14.jpg?resize=1200%2C1530&ssl=1)
In March 2020, she wore two more Lucky Animals brooches—a rabbit and a hedgehog—for a visit to Bousfield Primary School to celebrate World Book Day.
![Camilla and Taika Waititi hold lockdown storytime for kids](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla01.jpg?resize=832%2C952&ssl=1)
She wore the squirrel brooch from the line in May 2020, as she joined in with a reading of James and the Giant Peach coordinated as a charity project by Taika Waititi.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, with assistance from Captian Ed Andresen of the Welsh Guards, invites children to help decorate the Clarence House Christmas Tree at Clarence House on December 15, 2021 in London, England](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla15.jpg?resize=1200%2C1545&ssl=1)
For the annual decorating of the Clarence House Christmas tree in December 2021, she wore the owl brooch from the Lucky Animals line.
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visits the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to open the new kennels and thank the centre's staff and supporters on December 9, 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-1016-01-camilla16.jpg?resize=1200%2C1612&ssl=1)
Appropriately, she wore the dog brooch from the Lucky Animals range for a visit to the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in December 2020.
![Britain's Queen Camilla gives a speech as she visits the S.T.O.R.M Family Centre on February 9, 2023, in London, England (Toby Melville - WPA Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-0209-02-camilla08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1646&ssl=1)
And in February 2023, she debuted the dove brooch from the range during a visit to S.T.O.R.M. Family Centre in London. There are several more Lucky Animals brooches that we haven’t seen her wear yet, including a lion, a turtle, a horse, and a panda. Wonder if we’ll see more of them on Queen Camilla in the near future?
![The Duchess of Cornwall attends a dinner at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, on October 29, 2014 (Tim Rooke - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-1204-01-rifles07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1648&ssl=1)
There’s also one more very grand animal-inspired Van Cleef piece in Camilla’s jewelry box: her diamond serpent necklace. Part of Camilla’s gala jewelry collection for decades, the palace shared with royal reporters in October 2023 that the necklace was made by Van Cleef & Arpels, and that it had originally belonged to Camilla’s “adored grandmother.” (Presumably, that means it was part of the collection of jewels that belonged to Sonia Keppel Cubitt, mother of Camilla’s mother, Rosalind.)
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