Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
Today, we’ve got a look at a tiara that also belonged to a very important French royal woman from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the diamond and emerald tiara that belonged to the Duchess of Angoulême.
One of the things I’ve missed most over the past year is traveling to new cities and strolling through their local museums to look for jewelry treasures. I’m sure I’m not the only one feeling that way, so I thought it would be fun to devote several posts to some of the most glittering royal tiaras found in museums around the world—so we can all feel like we’re traveling again, right from our own homes. Today, we’re kicking things off with a sparkling tiara that has roots in France, Germany, and Russia, and now resides in Houston, Texas: the Leuchtenberg Fabergé Tiara.
Last week we talked about a petite brooch from the Queen’s jewelry box. Today, we’ve got a closer look at one of the biggest of all: the Queen Mother’s Cartier Lily Brooch.