Princess Ingeborg Emeralds - Royal jewels documentaryArchived Message
Posted by Cristina on December 15, 2011, 6:56 am
I was watching part 1 of the fabulous documentary on the royal jewels and I saw a picture that puzzled me very much... at minute 21:31 the narrator is talking about the emeralds now in Norway and a picture (a bit blury) of Princess Ingeborg is shown on the left side of the screen...
She is wearing the emerald tiara, it seems like it's in the begining of the 20th century, she is still a young woman wearing her darker hair up like ir was fashionable those days. What puzzles me is that the tiara does not seem to have the oval emeralds, later turned to earrings, on the sides of the central square emerald. The darker colour of the 3 square shaped emeralds in the front is quite visible but on that particular space it seems there all diamonds. I've compared it to other pictures of Queen Sophia and Ingeborg wearing the tiara and the oval emeralds seemed to be placed higher than this picture suggests. We know the tiara was altered years later (in the mid 1930's I believe) and this must be some reflection or my eyes playing tricks on me, but I wonder if anyone else has seen this? Thank you
on December 15, 2011, 6:56 am