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    Re: Side Note: QV wearing Queen Charlotte's crown Archived Message

    Posted by Nellie on December 2, 2011, 4:36 pm, in reply to "Side Note: QV wearing Queen Charlotte's crown"


    Thanks Boffer.
    Shall look for that later today, Boffer.
    I also have another of Queen Victoria wearing it in Bury.


    --Previous Message--
    :
    : There is a watercolour, in Jonathan
    : Marsden's - Victoria and Albert: Art and
    : Love, of the costume Queen Victoria wore to
    : the Stuart Restoration Costume Ball.
    : Which shows that she wore Queen Charlotte's
    : little crown as part of her costume:
    :
    :
    :
    : This is the best image I could find online,
    : I can't scan the image, but in the book is
    : clearly shows Queen Charlotte's crown
    : perched at the back of her elaborate hair,
    : in the style of Charles II's court.
    :
    : see:
    :
    : Jonathan Marsden (ed.), Victoria and
    : Albert: Art and Love , (London: Royal
    : Collection Publications, 2010). p. 234
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    : --Previous Message--
    :
    : But Queen Alexandra must have been the last
    : to wear a tiara plus a crown - see below -
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    :
    : http://members2.boardhost.com/royal-jewels/msg/1322748409.html
    :
    : Edit: Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet plus
    : Queen Victoria's small diamond crown
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