Queen Mary’s Floret Earrings




queen mary floret earrings
NPG x181628 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Queen Mary’s Floret Earrings are “set with seven small brilliants surrounding a large brilliant, in openwork claw settings.”1

The brilliants in the centre of the floret earrings were originally a pair of solitaire earrings. They were given to Queen Mary for her wedding in 1893 by Sir William Mackinnon, Bt. They were then set in another pair of earrings known as the cluster earrings in 1922. In 1939, they were reset again in their current form.

They were inherited by Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

  1. The Queen’s Diamonds by Hugh Roberts p.213






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