The busy royal week in Britain continued on Wednesday with the first garden party of the season at Buckingham Palace, with a quartet of royal ladies wearing lovely day jewels.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla welcomed guests to the gardens of Buckingham Palace on Wednesday for the first garden party of the year. They were supported at the event by the Princess Royal, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.
Garden parties, like Royal Ascot, are events where you can expect to see plenty of tie pins on the royal gentlemen in attendance. The King reached for a favorite pin from his collection for the garden party: a diamond and ruby pin featuring the cypher of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria. He used the pin to secure a tie that appears to be decorated with hot air balloons.
Queen Camilla wore a blue silk dress with a panel of white lace, made by Christian Dior, paired with a matching Philip Treacy hat. She accessorized with a special diamond and turquoise brooch that belonged to Queen Mary, paired with coordinating turquoise and diamond earrings.
The brooch, which was one of Queen Mary’s wedding gifts from her parents-in-law, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, was worn occasionally by the late Queen Elizabeth II. Camilla first appeared in the brooch—and the earrings, and the same dress and hat—last year during Royal Ascot.
The King’s siblings were also elegantly attired for the party, with Edward wearing morning dress and Anne and Sophie in classic springtime daywear. UFO No More shares that Sophie’s floral dress comes from Erdem, and her bag is a design from a royal relative, Sophie Habsburg.
Princess Anne accessorized with pieces that have been in her jewelry box for many years, including her pearl, gold, and diamond earrings from Andrew Grima and her gold and diamond stalactite brooch, which was a wedding gift from her mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1973. Her three-row pearl necklace appears to be the one inherited from her mother in 2022.
Like his older brother, Prince Edward wore a tie pin with his morning suit. This one appears to be the gold pin from his collection that features the cypher of his grandfather, King George VI, who he resembles more and more as the years go by.
Sophie accessorized with a pair of diamond stud earrings with a flower design.
The Duke of Gloucester didn’t wear a tie pin to the garden party, but his Duchess more than compensated in the jewelry department. Birgitte wore diamond and sapphire floral earrings, plus her silvery black pearl necklace, from which she suspended a special heirloom pendant. The pearl-tipped enamel pendant features Queen Victoria’s imperial cypher set with diamonds.
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