Queen Alexandrine’s Fringe Tiara was a gift to Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia upon her marriage to the future Friedrich Franz III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in 1879 from her uncle, Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
Following Anastasia’s death in 1922, the tiara was inherited by her eldest daughter, Alexandrine, who was the Queen of Denmark. It quickly became Alexandrine’s favourite tiara, and she wore it on many occasions.
When Queen Alexandrine died in 1952, she bequeathed the tiara to the wife of her younger son, Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Hereditary Princess of Denmark. Had the law not changed to allow Princess Margrethe to become Queen, Caroline-Mathilde would have eventually become Denmark’s Queen consort. She, too, wore the piece often.
After the death of Princess Caroline-Mathilde in 1995, her eldest son, Count Ingolf of Rosenborg, inherited the piece. His wife passed in 1996, so there was no one to wear it. He did loan it out briefly to his sister, Princess Elisabeth. He remarried in 1998, and the tiara is now worn by his wife, Sussie.1
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