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Princess Désirée’s Dainty Diamond Scroll Tiara (with Big Royal History!)

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Princess Désirée of Sweden walks with Sir John Eccles, the Australian Nobel Prize winner for medicine, at the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm on December 10, 1963 (Keystone Press/Alamy)
Princess Désirée of Sweden walks with Sir John Eccles, the Australian Nobel Prize winner for medicine, at the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm on December 10, 1963 (Keystone Press/Alamy)

Today, the Swedish royal family celebrates the birthday of Princess Désirée, the third of the four older sisters of King Carl XVI Gustaf. Although she married a commoner and lost her royal style as a result, Désirée has continued over the years to attend gala functions in Sweden, often wearing a petite diamond tiara with links to a fascinating royal lady from two generations earlier.

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