The Dutch Sapphire Parure Tiara




Queen Maxima wears the complete tiara © RVD - Erwin Olaf

The Dutch Sapphire Parure Tiara consists of 655 brilliants and 32 sapphires and made perhaps its most famous outing on the head of Queen Maxima during the inauguration of her husband, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands.

The largest sapphire has an intersection of 2 centimetres and consists of 44 carats, and probably came from the legacy of Anna Pavlovna, the wife of King William II of the Netherlands.

King William III bought the sapphire tiara and two bracelets for his second wife, Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, in 1881 for 100,000 florins. The tiara was designed by Vita Israël and made by the jeweller Maison van der Stichel. The tiara was set onto a new frame in 1928, probably because the original gold frame had deteriorated.

It can currently be worn with or without the taller diamond element.1

  1. De juwelen van het Huis Oranje-Nassau by René Brus p. 71-74






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