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    Re: Is not the Swedish aquamarine tiara of Madeleine... Archived Message

    Posted by Boris on May 28, 2012, 11:25 am, in reply to "Re: Is not the Swedish aquamarine tiara of Madeleine..."

    But of course you mean no harm ! IMHO, it's quite enjoyable to install some humour here from time to time.

    Princess Madeleine almost manages to make her aquamarine bandeau tiara disappear - state vist from Romania, 2008:







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    : I mean no harm to neither the fellow or gal
    : that designed that odd thing, nor to its
    : owner
    : I simply have trouble appreciating these
    : kinds of head ornaments.
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    : Unkind voices like yours labeled the
    : aquamarine bandeau the 'cyclops tiara'.
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    : Perhaps this caused a tendency of Princess
    : Madeleine to sometimes bury it in her hair
    : and to wear it as far up on her head as
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    : Both are very odd contraptions: they
    : resemble
    : a fish's open mouth and in the swedish case
    : one with a bugg trapped inside.
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    : It has always been said that the aquamarine
    : bandeau tiara, Princess Madeleine's 18th
    : birthday gift from her parents, was worn by
    : Queen (then Crown Princess) Louise in the
    : 1920s and 30s, although I've never found an
    : original, reliable source for this
    : information.
    : Style-wise, it would certainly make sense to
    : date it back to the 1920s and worn low on
    : the forehead.
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    : Princess Madeleine at Märtha Louise of
    : Norway's wedding ten years ago:
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    : a art deco design?
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    : It looks very "modern" - not 19th
    : century at all. Perhaps there was something
    : contained in it. It also looks like a
    : single-strand diamond necklace mounted on a
    : frame - ?
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    : And BTW, was Princess Madeleine's tiara once
    : owned by CP Margaretha? I confess that also
    : seemed very modern to me (although I know
    : that she had a lot of "new"
    : jewelry, as opposed to existing family
    : pieces).
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    : Thankx to Mia who posted this link in the
    : thread about the Garnet & Diamond
    : Kokoshnik Tiara of the late Countess of
    : Rosenborg I spent some hours looking after
    : interesting jewels.
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    : I found this tiara, quite nice and fit for a
    : young princess. Elisabeth, Amalia,...??
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    : It reminds me of the small diamond and
    : aquamarine tiara from Sweden.
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    : http://www.bukowskis.com/auctions/568/1096-diadem-antikslipade-diamanter-tot-ca-7-8-ct-1800-tal?q=tiara
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    : I confess that I don't find the above tiara,
    : or ones like it, to be at all appealing.
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    : I think it has a tendancy to look unfinished
    : and I really do not like the spacing between
    : either row.
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    : It also reminds me somewhat of the tiara
    : worn by Princess Madeleine to the Danish
    : Crown Princely wedding in 2004. And even
    : with the central aquamarine, that tiara too
    : failed to allure my attention for the right
    : reasons. Really uninspiring I thought and a
    : "waste" of a good stone.
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