Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
I know I promised tiaras in our Sparkling Spotlight posts this week about the Royal Variety Performance, but I couldn’t resist highlighting this particular outing: the Queen’s rather shocking gown and jewels from the 1999 show!
On this day in 1894, more than a century ago, the eyes of the world were on Russia. Tsar Nicholas II, the young man who had become emperor only three weeks earlier, was preparing to marry a German princess. They couldn’t have known then that this imperial wedding, held under a cloud of mourning, would be the last nuptials of a Russian emperor and empress. Today, let’s look back on the unusual day, and the traditional jewels worn by the bride.
We’re taking a quick break from this week’s Sparkling Spotlight posts for a very good reason: the Queen wore a brooch at Windsor yesterday! Here’s all the details on her latest jewelry appearance.
Here in America, tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. To celebrate, and say a little “thank you” to all of you, I thought I’d bring you Thursday’s post on the jewels of tonight’s Spanish state banquet in Sweden a few hours early. Enjoy!
Three cheers for another royal-royal state visit! On Wednesday, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain began their first state visit to Sweden, and we were treated to both gorgeous daytime jewels and glittering evening tiaras.
Our Sparkling Spotlight survey of tiaras worn to the Royal Variety Performance arrives in the Swinging ’60s today, with one of the Queen’s early appearances in her own sapphire tiara.