Re: QD: Queen Victoria's widowhood and coloured jewels Archived Message
Posted by Honor  on May 27, 2012, 10:44 am, in reply to "Re: QD: Queen Victoria's widowhood and coloured jewels"
I love the design of this strawberry leaf tiara. It's reminiscent of Queen Victoria's sapphire and diamond tiara now in the possession of the Lascelles family. The medievalism of the design is more appealing to me than the art nouveau style that came into vogue in the later Victorian period.
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: This Diamond and Ruby Parure was given to
: Princess Beatrice on her wedding day.
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: Here are Ursula's fantastic pages on the
: tiara and parure:
: http://www.royal-magazin.de/england/queen-victoria/Victoria-strawberry-l-tiara.htm
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: On page 43, Hugh Roberts writes that in her
: widowhood Queen Victoria ". . .almost
: invariably wore only diamonds or pearls,
: avoiding coloured stones..."
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: For Princess Louise's wedding on 21 Mar
: 1871, Queen Victoria wrote in her journal
: "I word a black satin dress trimmed
: with jet, on my head over my veil, my
: diamond & ruby Tiara & my Parure to
: match."
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: Can anyone provide details on this
: particular parure? I believe that it was a
: gift of Prince Albert as the Queen wore
: rubies and diamonds on such a momentous day
: in her daughter's life.
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