Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
This month, major royal jewelry news broke in Switzerland: Christie’s will soon offer a pair of incredible diamond bracelets for sale that belonged to none other than Marie Antoinette. We’ve got all the details today on the history of the pieces and the upcoming auction in Geneva!
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.
The print and online catalogues for next week’s landmark Bourbon-Parma jewelry auction are officially up, and we’ve finally got more information on a set of jewels I’ve been very curious about: the pearl suite that belonged to Marie Antoinette.