The Cartier Pearl Drop Tiara
Royal Jewels

The Cartier Pearl Drop Tiara

The Cartier Pearl Drop Tiara is part of the Monegasque princely collection. Embed from Getty Images The tiara features diamonds, gold and platinum. It has large pearl drops hanging en tremblant from arches. The tiara was made by Cartier for Princess Charlotte of Monaco, the mother of Prince Rainier III. Charlotte ordered the tiara in [read more]
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Antoinette of Monaco

Women who were passed over – Monaco

The Principality of Monaco has traditionally practised male-preference primogeniture, which means that a brother will always take precedence over an elder sister. If we take absolute primogeniture (meaning that the eldest child inherits regardless of sex) into account, which women were passed over? Marie Grimaldi Marie was the only child of Antoinette of Savoy and [read more]