The Midnight Tiara is also a good example why I believe they cannot allow themselves to spend lager amounts on jewelry. The tiara had a pricetag of around 1.1 mill £ as far as I remember.
My intention is not to miscredit The Royal House. But just to point out that there might be a natural and understandable reason why we do not seen the family buying heirlooms back, or adding new to the collection as often as one might wish for.
perhaps they will go the route of CP Mary, and promote Danish jewelry craftspeople by having exclusive use of a borrowed tiara such as The Midnight Tiara.
Well Princess Thyra's tiara was not that expensive but neither HM nor the crown prince felt the need to buy it. Where it could have been a great addition to Mary's collection and in future would work well for any of their four children.
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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