Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
We’ve spent all month celebrating jewels set with February’s birthstone, the divine amethyst, and jewels that are all about love. Today’s piece, the Queen Mother’s Amethyst Sautoir Necklace, is a delightful combination of the two. Here’s a little history behind the royal necklace.
One of the most fascinating royal romances of the 20th century belonged to King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and his first wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught. Today, we’ve got the story of how the two royals fell in love on the Nile, as well as a look at some of the Egyptian-connected jewels they received as wedding presents a few months later.
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While I tally the results of our Diamond Tiara Tournament championship vote, I’ve got another sparkling piece of diamond jewelry from the Windsor collection for us to enjoy: the Diamond Quatrefoil Bracelet that belonged to the late Queen Mother.
Our virtual tour of royal tiaras in museums around the world today moves across the city of London to Kensington Palace. There, we’re going to spend some time with one of the most dazzling British royal tiaras of all: the Fife Tiara.
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.