Queen Alexandra’s Wedding Necklace consists of “eight pearl and diamond clusters, all detachable and all with spiral back clasps for attachments, the three at the centre with detachable brilliant and pavé-set baroque pearl pendants, linked by festoons of brilliant in open-back and cut-down silver collets.” Embed from Getty Images The necklace was part of a [read more]
Queen Alexandra’s Collet Necklace consists of “31 graduated brilliants (five detachable) in cut-down collet settings.” The necklace and a matching pair of earrings made of large old-cut Golconda diamonds were given to the then Princess Alexandra of Denmark upon her marriage to the future King Edward VII by the City of London. Alexandra wore the [read more]
An emerald and diamond brooch that belonged to Princess Charlotte of Wales is headed for auction in July. Princess Charlotte would have succeeded her father, King George IV, as Queen if she hadn’t died in childbirth in 1817. The brooch was given by Princess Charlotte’s husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, who went on to become [read more]
Queen Alexandra’s Wedding Brooch consists of a “bow-centred oval outline, set with one large and two smaller pearls encircled with brilliant, the outer border with 20 brilliant in pierced collet claw settings, and suspending three detachable brilliant and pave-set baroque pearls; the central bouton pearl framed by 14 brilliants also detachable.” Embed from Getty Images [read more]
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee Necklace was created in 1888 after quite some debate. The “Women’s Jubilee Offering” committee had been established in 1887 with the purpose of marking Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. With the Queen’s approval, an equestrian statue of Prince Albert was made for Windsor Great Park, but the contributions raised far outgrew the [read more]
Queen Victoria’s Wheat-ear Brooches were actually commissioned in 1830 by King William IV for his wife, Queen Adelaide, using 580 stones from the collection of his father, King George III. The set consists of six brooches. Three of the brooches had to be surrendered by Queen Victoria to her uncle, the King of Hanover, after [read more]
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