The Duchess of Cambridge could really rock this choker while wearing her hair up with the black velvet strapless McQueen dress. I wonder if she could also wear it in her hair - for instance, if she had a low chignon like CP Mary and then put it above the chignon, like CP did with some of the ruby tiara brooches.
Oh this is too much fun!!
--Previous Message-- : Yes. This is the love Trophy Collar. It : features in Munn, and Roberts and was worn : by Queen Mary to Edward VII's coronation, : along with the Boucheron Loop Tiara and : Surrey Necklace Tiara. : : Here are the now very detailed notes that I : have created on it: : : Queen Mary's Love Trophy Collar : For her seventeenth birthday in 1884, : Queen Mary received from her mother “diamond : star earrings”.[1] And upon the occasion of : her confirmation a year later in 1885, Queen : Mary received, from her grandmother the : Duchess of Cambridge, “some beautiful : diamond stars”,[2] which were a set of : seven 12-pointed stars.[3] Her aunt, the : Grand-Duchess of Mecklenberg-Strelitz also : gave her a diamond spray brooch upon the : occasion of her confirmation, which Queen : Mary described as a “beautiful diamond : brooch”.[4] : These three gifts were later dismantled, : and the diamonds used to create a “scroll : and ribbon pattern collar”,[5] which was : subsequently dismantled in 1901, and the : stones used to create this ‘Queen Mary’s : Love Trophy Collar’.[6] : Roberts describes this collar as being : “formed of seven brilliant-set panels, each : with an amatory of bow, quiver and torch in : a laurel-wreath oval suspended from a ribbon : tie, framed by foliate brilliant-set : bands”.[7] : Although Munn attributes this “garland : style” collar to Cartier,[8] no reference : to it can be found in their archives.[9] : Nor is there any reference to it in the : Garrard archives or ledgers, however Roberts : believes an attribution to this firm is most : likely;[10] as it appears in the Garrard : ledges in 1902, when the firm supplied four : diamonds, and made repairs to the : collar.[11] : : Notes: : [1] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; : RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 32; Queen Mary to : Prince Adolphus of Teck, quoted in, : Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 136 : [2] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; : RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 18; Queen Mary to : the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, : quoted in, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 163 : [3] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154 : [4] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; : RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 19; Queen Mary, : quoted in, Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 164 : [5] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; : RA JEWEL/GARRARD/QM, fol. 47 : [6] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154 : [7] Ibid., p. 154 : [8] Munn, Tiaras, p. 133 : [9] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154 : [10] Ibid., p. 154 : [11] Roberts, The Queen’s Diamonds, p. 154; : (GA Garrard RL51, fol. 266, 20 January 1902) : : : --Previous Message-- : I confess that I have NO IDEA which : necklace/collar this is, as referred to in : Boffer's post of 8 May. Might it be the : large diamond choker which I believe she : wore to the coronation of King Edward VII : (along with the Boucheron tiara which was : later dismantled)? : : :
on May 27, 2012, 1:13 pm, in reply to "