1987 i think we were still calling Fergie a breath of fresh air back then (Bea was born in 198
and i think she has a broochy thing ? on her shirt ???
more at Easter 1987 ( i was at high school)
and her saying she hated every minute of the tour down here 
I am in Texas and right in the middle of the Path of Totality for the Total Solar Eclipse on Monday. I AM SO EXCITED!!!! It's been crazy...helping to write district lesson plans to share with all grade levels and I was asked to do some cross-curricular lessons for two other districts. The museum that my husband works at also as a full slate of events, one of which is a fancy event (not quite as fancy as our annual November gala) Saturday night.
I even purchased a special tiara to wear Monday....
everdently the brooch is in Angela Kelly's book which i have around here somewhere
the brooch was Queen Mary's and our late Queen did wear it on occasions
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, wore the glittering blue earrings for the historic Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace.
The jewels are of particular significance to Prince Edward and Sophie, for the Duchess was first spotted wearing the earrings for an engagement to mark their 10th wedding anniversary. Sophie opted for the floral jewels as she visited Whitton School back in June 2009, a decade on from the couple’s star-studded nuptials in Windsor. Some royal watchers have even speculated that the floral gems could have been a gift from the Prince to the mother-of-two.
i was just looking at the pictures on the daily mail last night and i did not know this
so a new to me tiara -not that we will now ever see it worn as such,
from the daily mail
For Queen Camilla, a bronze wedding anniversary means diamonds!
When Camilla Parker Bowles married Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall was given access to one of the most important and exclusive jewellery collections in the world.www.dailymail.co.uk
It is said that, when the young Camilla Shand first met Prince Charles through their mutual friend, Lucia Santa Cruz, that she had made a joke of about the colourful if somewhat disreputable connection between their families.
The Keppel ruby and diamond tiara, given to Mrs Keppel by the newly crowned King Edward in the early 1900s, is one of these gifts.
Similar in style to one made at the same time by Fabergé, it is made of gold and platinum and set with swirls of pavé-set diamonds elaborated by 14 oval and pear-shaped synthetic rubies.
This might sound strange - a king giving synthetics - but these 'rubies' were very fashionable at the time, having been finally perfected by Auguste Verneuil in time for the Paris World Fair in 1900. They were in high demand.
The combination of rubies and diamonds signifies eternal love, which makes the piece a particularly appropriate gift from the Prince of Wales, as he was then. The tiara has since been transformed into a necklace.
There is another Keppel family tiara in the collection, also - a magnificent diamond set-piece found locked in a safe at a London jeweller’s. Bought by Charles for Camilla, it has subsequently been transformed into a spectacular necklace and pair of earrings.
i need to find a better picture
im not sure what Queen Alexandra would think of all this, HM might have had to go back to Denmark for a holiday
but its terribly romantic Charles finding Alice's jewellery to give to Camila, Alice's descendant- i think the old lady (I mean great grandma) was still alive when Camila was born... hang on i google ... Cam was born in July 1947 and Alice died in September 1947
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