queen elizabeth The Greville Chandelier Earrings
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The Greville Chandelier Earrings

The Greville Chandelier Earrings were from the collection of Dame Margaret Greville, the wife of the Hon. Ronald Greville. Margaret and her husband had had no children, and she bequeathed all her jewellery to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother upon her death in 1942. Margaret probably ordered these earrings from Cartier in 1918, and they [read more]
The Greville Tiara
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The Greville Tiara

Like the Greville Bow Brooch, the Greville tiara came from the collection of Dame Margaret Greville, the wife of the Hon. Ronald Greville. Margaret and her husband had had no children, and she bequeathed all her jewellery to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother upon her death in 1942. The tiara was created in 1921 by [read more]
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The Greville Bow Brooch

Like the Cartier Lily Brooch, the Greville Bow Brooch is unusually large. The brooch was probably commissioned in 1900 by Dame Margaret Greville, the wife of the Hon. Ronald Greville. The commission was given to Boucheron, a firm that Margaret patronised regularly. This particular commission cost 3,000 francs and consisted of dismantling a knot-pattern diadem [read more]