The second round of Nobel tiaras came out in Stockholm last night when the King of Sweden hosted a dinner for this year’s Nobel laureates, with Queen Silvia, Crown Princess Victoria, and Princess Madeleine all wearing fabulous antique diadems.
Queen Silvia was a rosy-purple vision in another George et Arend gown for the King’s Dinner on Thursday. We saw her wear this dress previously during the Finnish state visit to Sweden in 2022.
During the Finnish state visit outing, Silvia wore the gown with rubies, but this time she paired it with diamonds and amethysts from the Bernadotte vaults. She wore the circlet-style tiara from the Napoleonic Amethyst Parure with the earrings from the set, as well as a necklace made by joining the set’s bracelets and adding the pendant from one of the brooches.
The amethysts have a staggering royal history. They’re said to have been a wedding gift from Empress Joséphine of France to her daughter-in-law, Princess Augusta, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, in 1806. They came to Sweden with Augusta’s daughter, Queen Josefina of Sweden, and they’ve been in Stockholm ever since. It was Silvia who decided to set the enormous original necklace from the suite on a tiara frame, making a complete parure in the process.
Crown Princess Victoria also wore a pink-hued gown for the dinner, reaching for the electric fuchsia Safiyaa gown she wore in 2023 for the Crown Prince of Jordan’s wedding banquet.
Victoria wore the Boucheron Laurel Wreath Tiara with the dress during its last outing, but this time she selected a different heirloom tiara from Crown Princess Margareta’s collection: the Connaught Diamond Tiara, the diadem given to Margaret by her parents as a wedding present in 1905.
She wore more Swedish royal heirlooms, too: the diamond drop earrings that were originally part of a stomacher that belonged to Queen Josefina, as well as the diamond and opal cluster brooch worn by Princess Sibylla.
And, on Victoria’s right wrist, one more big royal jewelry moment: the Diamond Zig-Zag Bracelet. The jewel was once part of a choker necklace that belonged to Grand Duchess Louise of Baden, who was the mother of Queen Victoria of Sweden.
And then, Princess Madeleine decided to dazzle everyone in a gown featuring a plunging black velvet bodice and a skirt covered in gold sequins. UFO No More tells us that the dress was made by Monique Lhuillier.
Madeleine coordinated the gown with one of the only yellow gold tiaras in the family collection: the Napoleonic Cut Steel Tiara, which sparkles with highly-polished steel beads instead of diamonds. The tiara has an incredible history—it originally belonged to Hortense de Beauharnais, and it was rediscovered in the Royal Palace in Stockholm in 1976 after languishing in a storage area full of silver—but Madeleine’s tenure with the jewel is more recent. She wore it for the first time at the King’s Dinner last year.
With the unique tiara, Madeleine wore even older royal diamonds: the Vasa Earrings, which date to the eighteenth century (!). Madeleine has a particularly sentimental association with the earrings, because she wore them on her wedding day in 2013. For last night’s dinner, she finished off the look with bracelets: a large gold cuff on her left wrist and a diamond tennis bracelet paired with a Cartier Love Bracelet on her right.
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