![King Charles III and Queen Camilla cut a cake during a visit to open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Arthur Edwards - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla01.jpg?resize=1200%2C845&ssl=1)
King Charles and Queen Camilla embarked on a visit to Northern Ireland on Wednesday, and Camilla brought along a bejeweled tribute to her late mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, for the start of the trip.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla02.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
The King and Queen began their two-day Northern Ireland visit on Tuesday in Newtownabbey near Belfast.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla03.jpg?resize=1200%2C1680&ssl=1)
They opened a new coronation garden, which features an elaborate gate with both of their names and a large crown.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla04.jpg?resize=1200%2C1783&ssl=1)
Queen Camilla wore diplomatic green for her first engagement in Northern Ireland since the coronation.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla05.jpg?resize=1200%2C1800&ssl=1)
She accessorized with several pieces of gold, diamond, and emerald jewelry.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla cut a cake during a visit to open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Arthur Edwards - Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla06.jpg?resize=1200%2C1712&ssl=1)
She wore a pair of modern gold earrings from her jewelry box that have pavé-set diamond pendants.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla07.jpg?resize=1200%2C1781&ssl=1)
She also added two necklaces: her rigid gold torc-style necklace, plus the familiar chain with two pendants (a disc with the initials of her grandchildren and a Kiki McDonough Apollo pendant).
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla08.jpg?resize=1200%2C1727&ssl=1)
But the jewelry star of the show was, without a doubt, the emerald and diamond brooch that Camilla pinned to her outfit.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla09.jpg?resize=800%2C989&ssl=1)
Here’s a closer look at the brooch, which has a diamond-set Celtic knot design surrounding a cabochon emerald.
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The brooch reportedly comes from the collection of Queen Mary. It matches the illustration and description of a jewel given to her as a wedding present by Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (then tsarevich) in 1893. In an article on the public display of Mary’s wedding gifts at the Imperial Institute in London that July, the Telegraph described the brooch as “a cabochon emerald and diamond knot.” Mary wears the brooch pinned at her throat in the portrait above, which dates to the 1890s. (The emerald shamrock brooch pinned at her waist ended up with the Kents and was most recently worn by Lady Gabriella Kingston at the coronation.)
![Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom attends a state banquet at Windsor Castle during a visit from President Higgins of Ireland, April 8, 2014 (Dan Kitwood/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla11.jpg?resize=1200%2C1566&ssl=1)
It’s not known whether the knot brooch was inherited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 from Queen Mary or in 2002 from the Queen Mother, but it was definitely in her collection by the spring of 2014. That April, she wore the brooch for the Irish state banquet at Windsor Castle, pairing it with the Vladimir Tiara and jewels from the Delhi Durbar Parure, all of which are set with the Cambridge Emeralds. Queen Mary’s Celtic Knot Brooch was pinned to the Queen’s Garter sash for the dinner.
![Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom meets with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon in Malta, November 27, 2015 (John Stillwell-Pool/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla12.jpg?resize=1200%2C1561&ssl=1)
Elizabeth II also wore the brooch for an audience with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Malta during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November 2015.
![Queen Elizabeth II presents the George Cross to representatives of the National Health Service at Windsor Castle on July 12, 2022 in Windsor, England (AARON CHOWN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/2022-0713-01-nhs10.jpg?resize=1200%2C1624&ssl=1)
One of her final appearances in the brooch took place in July 2022, when she officially bestowed the George Cross on the National Health Service.
![King Charles III and Queen Camilla open the new Coronation Garden on day one of their two-day visit to Northern Ireland on May 24, 2023 in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecourtjeweller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023-0524-01-camilla10.jpg?resize=1200%2C1666&ssl=1)
Here’s one more look at Queen Camilla wearing the special brooch in Northern Ireland earlier today.
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