Did you know that the Norwegian royal family has British royal roots? Today we’ve got a closer look at one of their most important British royal jewelry inheritances: Queen Alexandra’s Turquoise Circlet.
Queen Alexandra’s Turquoise Circlet
The Cambridge Sapphires
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| Queen Mary wears the Cambridge Sapphires (Wikimedia Commons) |
Queen Mary’s jewelry collection included several complete parures featuring colorful gemstones. Today, we’re talking about the history of one of those sets — the Cambridge Sapphires — as well as their current royal status today.
Tackling Tiaragate: Meghan, Harry, and Those Wedding Tiara Rumors
All right, everybody. I think it’s finally time to delve into a topic that has been requested consistently for almost two years: the reported conflict that cropped up between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and palace staff over Meghan’s wedding tiara. I’ve avoided writing about the subject in the past for a couple of reasons. For one, the jewelry-centric details of the story just don’t totally make sense. And for another, this isn’t a website devoted to gossip about the royals. But as more and more versions of the story have been published, I think that a website devoted to facts and history about royal jewels may be the perfect place to straighten out what we know—and what we don’t know—about the story that some in the press have begun calling “tiaragate.”
The Cartier Indian Tiara
The Duchess of Gloucester, wife of a cousin of the British monarch, has a jewelry collection that outshines those of some entire royal families. Many of her pieces came from Queen Mary via the current duke’s mother, Princess Alice. But today’s jewel, the Cartier Indian Tiara, arrived in the Gloucester collection from a different, lesser-known branch of Queen Victoria’s family tree.
No, The Queen’s Brooch Was Not Sending You a Secret Message
When regular television programming gave way to a message from Her Majesty the Queen on Sunday, Elizabeth II appeared on screens across the globe. In a video that had been filmed a few days earlier, she sat in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle and delivered a message of support and reassurance in the face of global crisis. With only one other person in the room–a camera operator who was dressed in full protective gear–she spoke with measured strength, recalling her wartime childhood and encouraging people around the world that they, like the people of the 1940s, would indeed meet again.
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