The Antique Pearl Tiara




dutch antique pearl tiara
© Photography Erwin Olaf

The Antique Pearl Tiara was made in 1900 and was designed to mimic the shape of an older Pearl tiara in the Dutch collection once owned by Anna Pavlovna, wife of King William II of the Netherlands. It is not clear what happened to the older pearl tiara.

The large pearls sit upright on this tiara, and they used to belong to Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Princess of Orange.

Queen Wilhelmina was the first to wear this tiara and it has remained a favourite with the Dutch Queens and Princesses since. Queen Juliana placed the tiara in the family’s jewel foundation in 1962.

The tiara can also be worn without the pearls, which the future Queen Maxima did before her marriage to the then Prince of Orange, to the wedding of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway.1

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