
The Dutch royal vaults are teeming with spectacular jewels, but perhaps one of the grandest pieces of all is the nineteenth-century diamond and sapphire tiara made for Queen Emma.
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The Dutch royal vaults are teeming with spectacular jewels, but perhaps one of the grandest pieces of all is the nineteenth-century diamond and sapphire tiara made for Queen Emma.

There are so many reasons to love Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik. It’s an utterly classic tiara from a design perspective. It’s a literal wall of diamonds. It has a fascinating, Romanov-related backstory. Let’s take a deep dive into this piece’s intriguing history today, shall we?

Most of the tiaras worn by Queen Elizabeth II were inherited from her sparkling royal relatives, but there are a few pieces she’s added to the collection herself. One of them is today’s tiara, the Burmese Ruby, which she commissioned in the 1970s.