Sparkling Royal Jewels From Around the World
In some royal families, jewels can be both beautiful and contentious. Today’s tiara is a magnificent royal tiara with a rather complicated and even difficult story: the Cartier tiara owned by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium.
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.