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Victoria of Baden as Queen of Sweden, ca. 1910 [1] |
NOTES, PHOTO CREDITS, AND LINKS
1. Photograph available via Wikimedia Commons; source here.
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Victoria of Baden as Queen of Sweden, ca. 1910 [1] |
NOTES, PHOTO CREDITS, AND LINKS
1. Photograph available via Wikimedia Commons; source here.
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The Queen Mother wears the Boucheron Honeycomb Tiara [1] |
It takes a lady with serious tiara hair to pull off one of the biggest sparklers in Britain: the Boucheron Honeycomb Tiara, which was a favorite of the late Queen Mother and is now worn by her granddaughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall.
The tiara was originally not a royal piece at all. It was made in the 1920s by Boucheron for the Hon. Mrs. Greville, a society hostess who was a friend of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. (In fact, the Windsors apparently call this the “Greville tiara” [2].) When Mrs. Greville died in 1942, she left a boatload of jewels to Queen Elizabeth, including this tiara. (Other jewels left to the royal family by Mrs. Greville include a pair of diamond chandelier earrings [3] and an elaborate ruby and diamond necklace [4].) The tiara originally lacked the diamond clusters that sit atop the piece — those were one of the Queen Mum’s later additions, made possible by Cartier [5].
NOTES, PHOTO CREDITS, AND LINKS
1. Detail of Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1986) by Richard Stone; the artist has placed the portrait in the public domain, and it is available via Wikimedia Commons; source here.
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Crown Princess Margareta with two of her children, Ingrid and Carl Johan [1] |
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Margaret of Connaught [2] |
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Princess Ingrid of Sweden [3] |
NOTES, PHOTO CREDITS, AND LINKS
1. Photograph in the public domain due to its age.
2. Detail of picture postcard of Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden; original source here.
3. Cropped version of picture postcard of Princess Ingrid of Sweden, available at Wikimedia Commons; source here.