Royal Jewels

Josefine · Sep 13, 2009

I will give it a try, i hope i will be able to do it.
I do love the site about the dutch royal Jewellery i hope we will se more site like that about different royal houses.

Josefine · Sep 14, 2009

So i sent a email to the Royal Palace asking about who were the first Lady after Sibylla and before Silvia
hoping for an answear

but Victoria wore the necklace before she became Queen were she the first lady then?

prince.of.preslav · Sep 14, 2009

Nice to hear that, Josefine!

I hope that they''ll send you a raply.

Victoria was Crown Princess of Sweden for two years, are you sure that the picture is showing her as CPss?
I have this photo of young Victoria wearing the necklace, her fringe tiara and a large diamond brooch. Do you know what happened with it (brooch)?

prince.of.preslav · Sep 14, 2009

My mistake - Victoria was Crown Princess of Sweden & Norway for 24 years, then two wears of Sweden solely. That makes a total of 26 years.

robinj · Sep 14, 2009

Date: 9/14/2009 6:56:57 AM
Author: Josefine
So i sent a email to the Royal Palace asking about who were the first Lady after Sibylla and before Silvia
hoping for an answear

but Victoria wore the necklace before she became Queen were she the first lady then?

I''m not sure that these are *rules* but merely tradition...

I don''t think that the Baden Fringe Tiara has been regarded as "the crown princess tiara" before HKH CP Victoria Bernadotte started using it and I don''t think that the Cameo Tiara was regarded as "the wedding tiara" before Silvia used it on her wedding day. But I DO think that the Braganza/Braganca has always been regarded as "the queens tiara" - it''s so huge that it woud be impossible for anyone else to wear it, and I do think that the Leuchtenberg Saphires has always been regarded as jewels that has to be worn by someone quite prominent. The "first lady" thing might be a tradition that has become almost a rule...

(Silvia seems to hold on tighter to the jewellery than anyone before her; I don''t think that the nine prong tiara or the cameo has been used by anyone else than her since she became queen either... not to mention the pink topazes... and she seems very reluctant to let anyone else use the Connaught forget-me-not-tiara, even though Madeleine and Victoria has used the pendants in a simple chain as a necklace and I know that Princess Christina, mrs Magnusson, has used it on at least one Nobel Prize Cermony...)

prince.of.preslav · Sep 15, 2009

Yes, Robin , I agree with you. I have few remarks, though.

1) Apart from the NP Ceremonies, The Connaught forget-me-not tiara was used by one of the King''s sisters at her wedding (again Christina I think). Some years later it was the first tiara from the collection that Miss Sommerlath, now Queen Silvia, wore. Maybe that''s why she seems reluctant to let anyone use it. However, Princess Lilian wore it at least once when Bertil was still alive.

2) The pink topaz parure was used by Queen Silvia for her first official photograph as Queen of Sweden. Have we seen the pature or parts of it on anyone else''s neck, apart of Queens and Princess Sibylla?

3) The Nine Priong tiara was also worn by Lilian.

Here is the picture of Lilian wearing the Connaught Tiara:

prince.of.preslav · Sep 15, 2009

Princess Lilian wearing the Nine Prong tiara:

Josefine · Sep 15, 2009

I think i have seen christina wearing the pink topaz parure, i will take a look in my computer at home

Josefine · Sep 15, 2009

christina

Josefine · Sep 15, 2009

one more

Josefine · Sep 15, 2009

christina

maybe 2001

robinj · Sep 15, 2009

Darn! There goes my theory!

I had no idee that Lillian had used the Connaught and the nine prong tiara! Total news to me! Why would she even consider using the horrible six-button-tiara when those where available?!
Is it just her daughters that are denied the use of the grander jewels then?

robinj · Sep 15, 2009

Princess Madeleine wearing the diamond drops of the Connaught forget-me-not-tiara as pendants of her necklace. Also the Carl XVI Gustaf fringe tiara.

robinj · Sep 15, 2009

I know it's almost impossible to see, but isn't princess Desiree wearing the pink topazes? (The gala night at the opera at the time of the marrige of the King and the Queen Silvia.)

loriken214 · Sep 15, 2009

Date: 9/15/2009 11:58:04 AM
Author: robinj
Princess Madeleine wearing the diamond drops of the Connaught forget-me-not-tiara as pendants of her necklace. Also the Carl XVI Gustaf fringe tiara.

WOW....what an AWESOME photo....that necklace is AMAZING!!!

Lori

Madam Bijoux · Sep 17, 2009

I found this picture of Grace Kelly's engagement ring. I've read that it's anywhere between 10.47 and 12 carats, and it's from Cartier:
http://elitechoice.org/2007/09/29/princess-grace-kelly%E2%80%99s-gowns-jewelry-photos-at-sotheby%E2%80%99s/

prince.of.preslav · Sep 17, 2009

A little bit late, but...

20 years ago on 15 September 1989, HRH The Prince of Preslav, second son of Simeon II & Margarita of Bulgaria, married Doña Maria del Rosario Nadal in Palma de Mallorca. The bride's tiara was (according to The Royal Forums) a gift from Ferdinand I of Bulgaria to his first wife Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon Parma. Her diamond earrings were a present from her parents-in-law.

A picture of the (still) happy couple:

prince.of.preslav · Sep 17, 2009

An extract from an official photo of the exiled Tsar and his mother Tsaritsa Ioanna of Bulgaria (nee Savoy) wearing the tiara from my previous post. We can also see The Queen Mother of Bulgaria wearing two rivieres, long diamond earrings, a devant-de-corsage and some cluster brooches. I''m not sure, but maybe the pear-shaped pendants hanging from the longer necklace have a ruby in the middle. Same for her bracelet.

prince.of.preslav · Sep 17, 2009

Date: 9/17/2009 8:28:16 AM
Author: Madam Bijoux
I found this picture of Grace Kelly''s engagement ring. I''ve read that it''s anywhere between 10.47 and 12 carats, and it''s from Cartier:

http://elitechoice.org/2007/09/29/princess-grace-kelly%E2%80%99s-gowns-jewelry-photos-at-sotheby%E2%80%99s/

The late Princess of Monaco wearing her ering:

Josefine · Sep 17, 2009

and more abut the safir necklace worn by princess birgitta
http://www.royal-magazin.de/german/hohenzollern/sibylla-faberge-collier.htm

Josefine · Sep 17, 2009

Letizia at the official dinner to Bolivian president

Josefine · Sep 17, 2009

an other dinner

Josefine · Sep 17, 2009

and bracelet from the same noght

lilamant · Sep 19, 2009

hello everyone! my first post to this forum! the picture below shows a diamond pear of earrings that belongs to the queen of england.

Josefine · Sep 20, 2009

how many larger brooches aré there in the swedish collection?

Josefine · Sep 20, 2009

an other one

prince.of.preslav · Sep 20, 2009

Hi, Josefine!
Which brooches do you define as ''larger''?

Here are some from my files -

This brooch is sometimes worn by The Queen. I''ve also seen it as part of a stomacher worn by Queen Victoria:

prince.of.preslav · Sep 20, 2009

Queen Victria of Sweden wearing the stomacher and a small flower brooch worn by CP Victoria on her engagement to Daniel.

prince.of.preslav · Sep 20, 2009

Princess Lilian wearing, among other jewels, a bow/knot brooch with diamonds and pearls:

prince.of.preslav · Sep 20, 2009

Queen Louise wearing a large brooch, I don't know nothing about.

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