I fear Queen Alexandrine's diamond drop tiara now with countess Alexandra of Fredriksborg is lost to the main line. Princess Marie's tiara will in time revert to the main line. Her son and daughter will have to do without any major pieces.
I get that the Danish Royals aren't billionaires but spending a 100.000 dollars or euro's now will safe them spending a lot more in 10 years time when Christian and his siblings will have use of tiara's.
Princess Isabella is not that far off from her 18th birthday and she'll need a tiara. I doubt either one of the Queen's sisters is going to hand over a piece of their jewels as they have titled offspring themselves, meaning a new piece is needed unless Mary is going to hand over her wedding tiara to Isabelle.
With only three tiara's that are her personal pieces Mary has not enough to hand over to her four children.
Margrethe has a little more but unless they adopt the Swedish and Dutch system of sharing pieces the next generation is in dire need of some jewels.
It would be wonderful (and sort of logical in my view) that Queen Alexandrine's fringe tiara would return to the main line, as the meander bracelet. I do hope it will happen sometime in the future. Its a beautiful gesture of the Count and Countess, and shows their respect for the intitution.
A pity that the relations between the two branches were not that fluid for many years, and eventually some of the main pieces ended up being sold at auction. It still breaks my heart that Queen Alexandrine's sapphire tiara (from Pss Caroline Mathilde and Countess Anne-Dorte) ended up sold outside the royal family. It would have made a beautiful new sapphire parure together with the Queen's sapphire set, all pieces coming from Queen Alexandrine's collection.
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