![Queen Camilla visits Rudolf Ross Grundschule School on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla03-1.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
The British state visit to Germany concluded today in Hamburg, and Queen Camilla wore a spectacular royal heirloom brooch with German connections for the occasion.
![Eva-Maria Tschentscher, Mayor of Hamburg Peter Tschentscher, King Charles III, Queen Camilla, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and First Lady Elke Büdenbender pose for a photograph inside Hamburg City Hall in Hamburg, Germany on March 31, 2023 (CHRIS JACKSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla04.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
For the final day of their state visit, King Charles and Queen Camilla took the train to Hamburg, where they visited Hamburg City Hall.
![Dr. Peter Tschentscher shows King Charles III and Queen Camilla the Golden Book at Hamburg City Hall on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla05.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
At the city hall, they viewed the Golden Book and signed pages to be added to it.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrive in Hamburg and visit the monument "Kindertransport - Der letzte Abschied" ("Children's Transport - The Last Farewell") at Dammtor station on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Ian Vogler - Pool / Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla06.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
They also paid their respects at St. Nikolai Memorial Church, which was heavily bombed by the Allies during World War II, and at the memorial to the Kindertransport at Dammtor railway station.
![Queen Camilla reads The Gruffalo with First Lady Elke Buedenbender and Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of the children's book, during a visit to Rudolf Ross Grundschule School on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Ben Birchall - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla14.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Camilla also visited Rudolf Ross Grundschule School alongside Elke Buedenbender and Axel Scheffler, the illustrator of the children’s book The Gruffalo.
![Queen Camilla draws a picture of The Gruffalo with the children during a visit to Rudolf Ross Grundschule School on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla13.jpg?resize=1200%2C1384&ssl=1)
She proudly showed off her own drawing of the Gruffalo character during the visit.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla, together with Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher, visit the St Nikolai Memorial Church on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Adrian Dennis - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
For Friday’s engagements, Camilla wore a blue coat with dark accessories, including a fur-trimmed hat.
![Queen Camilla visits Rudolf Ross Grundschule School in Hamburg to hear about the immersive language learning methods the school offers to its students, March 31, 2023 (Ben Birchall/PA Images/Alamy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla02.jpg?resize=1200%2C1506&ssl=1)
She also wore diamonds, sapphires, and pearls, including one of the most important brooches in the British royal collection.
![Queen Camilla waves as she visits Rudolf Ross Elementary School in Hamburg, Germany on March 31, 2023 (JENS BUTTNER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1560&ssl=1)
Her earrings, also worn on Wednesday in Berlin, were the sapphire, diamond, ruby, and pearl drop earrings.
![Queen Camilla arrives for the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London on March 13, 2023 (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0313-01-commonwealth05.jpg?resize=600%2C903&ssl=1)
This image, from the Commonwealth Day service earlier in March, shows a detail of the earrings.
![Queen Camilla visits Hamburg City Hall on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla09.jpg?resize=1200%2C1673&ssl=1)
And pinned to her coat was Prince Albert’s Brooch, an Heirloom of the Crown that dates to 1840.
![Franz Xaver Winterhalter's 1847 portrait of Queen Victoria in her wedding gown (Royal Collection)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-0215-01-victoria07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1521&ssl=1)
The brooch was presented to Queen Victoria by her husband-to-be, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on the night before their wedding in 1840. She wore it pinned to her gown during their wedding ceremony. It remained one of Victoria’s most-loved jewelry treasures throughout her life, and in her will, she designated it as an Heirloom of the Crown, ensuring that it would be worn by future queens regnant and consort.
![Queen Elizabeth II attends a garden party at Balmoral Castle on August 07, 2012 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland (David Cheskin - WPA Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-0122-01-victoria10.jpg?resize=1200%2C1670&ssl=1)
It has indeed been worn by every queen, regnant or consort, since then. Camilla now joins a list that includes Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and Queen Elizabeth II.
![Queen Elizabeth II stands arrives with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Tegel Airport in Berlin on the first of their four-day visit to Germany on June 23, 2015 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0328-01-tiaras06.jpg?resize=1200%2C1661&ssl=1)
Elizabeth II loved the brooch and wore it frequently for 70 years, including appearances in Germany. She wears it above for her arrival in Germany during her final state visit to the nation in 2015. It’s an especially appropriate choice, because Prince Albert was born and raised in Germany.
![Queen Camilla walks behind Queen Elizabeth II's funeral cortege as it proceeds towards Westminster Abbey on September 19, 2022 in London, England (Geoff Pugh - WPA Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/arrivals-01-camilla1.jpg?resize=1200%2C1652&ssl=1)
The brooch is the latest in a series of heirloom royal sapphires that Queen Camilla has worn since her husband’s accession. She chose the Hesse Diamond Jubilee Brooch, which she’d had in her jewelry box for several years, for Elizabeth II’s state funeral in September 2022.
![Queen Camilla is pictured during the state banquet at Buckingham Palace on November 22, 2022 in London, England (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-1122-02-banquet06.jpg?resize=1200%2C1654&ssl=1)
For the first tiara events of Charles’s reign, Camilla wore her late mother-in-law’s sapphire tiara and jewels. Here, she wears them for the South African state banquet in November 2022.
![Queen Camilla is pictured during the Diplomatic Corps reception at Buckingham Palace in London, December 6, 2022 (Victoria Jones/PA Images/Alamy)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022-1206-02-diplomatic06.jpg?resize=1200%2C1617&ssl=1)
And she wore the sapphires again for the Diplomatic Reception in December 2022.
![Queen Camilla arrives for the Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey in London on March 13, 2023 (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0313-01-commonwealth07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1750&ssl=1)
Most recently, we saw her wear the Russian Sapphire Cluster Brooch for the Commonwealth Day service in March 2023.
![Queen Camilla visits St. Nikolai Memorial Church on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla17-2.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
And now the Albert Brooch can be added to the list of the sapphires that the Queen Consort has worn.
![Queen Camilla draws a picture of The Gruffalo with the children during a visit to Rudolf Ross Grundschule School on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Filip Singer - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla11.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
We also got a good glimpse of Camilla’s bracelets as she drew during the school visit.
![Queen Camilla visits Rudolf Ross Grundschule School on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Ben Birchall - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla10.jpg?resize=870%2C1206&ssl=1)
And we also got a great view of her engagement and wedding rings during the same engagement.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla, with Elke Buedenbender, attend a reception at Schuppen 52 on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla15.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
The final event of the visit was a reception at Schuppen 52 in Hamburg.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla attend a reception at Schuppen 52 on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla16.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1)
Interestingly, Camilla changed her jacket and removed the brooch during the reception.
![Queen Camilla attends a reception at Schuppen 52 on March 31, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-0331-01-camilla12.jpg?resize=1200%2C1681&ssl=1)
This photograph from the event shows that she also wore her chain necklace with two familiar pendants: her Kiki McDonough Apollo Pendant and the gold disc engraved with the initials of her grandchildren.
And that’s a wrap from Germany! Looking forward to hearing more about the rescheduled French state visit soon.
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