Thanks for your explanation but I do not think everyone will read your notes the way you intended. Edit: That is not quite what I mean to convey. I think you are stretching traditional meanings for jewels. I don't feel that is beneficial from a research point of view. it is an extremely personal [i]interpretation[/i] that you use. i hope that is clearer?
--Previous Message-- : Nellie, : : Yes, 'Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet' also : contained a varied number of interchangeable : elements such as cross-pattees, : fleur-de-lys, and honeysuckle. : My point was that it was made up using : diamonds that were taken from Queen : Adelaide's dismantled circlet, which had in : turn contained diamonds taken from Queen : Charlotte's stomacher. And that a new : circlet was made in order to include the : Koh-i-Nur diamond. : : Th Cumberland Diamond was replaced by the : large stone, that was amongst the gift of : many diamonds from the Sultan of Turkey : following the Crimean War. Although this : diamond is still set in a cluster, it is : still a notably large stone - which is : constantly pointed out in the various : scholarship. : : Yes, all three of the large pieces, 'The : Diamond Diadem', 'Queen Victoria's Regal : Circlet' and 'Queen Victoria's Oriental : Circlet' were designated as heirlooms of the : Crown by Queen Victoria in 1901. That is why : I noted how they passed between Queens in : 1910 and 1936. : : I merely included the Crown circlet of Queen : Mary and Queen Elizabeth to identify that : they did wear them as circlets frequently. : This was to clarify to people that if they : have seen images of Queen Mary or Queen : Elizabeth wearing a circlet, then it is : likely to be their own and not Queen : Victoria's Regal Circlet or another piece. : : As for the list of the circlet owned by the : current Queen, and the inclusion of Queen : Mary's and Queen Elizabeth's; I included : these to show all the circlets that are at : the use of The Queen, and future royal : women, although I agree it is unlikely that : The Queen would ever wear these pieces, she : is in full right to do so, just as she is in : full right to wear 'Queen Victoria's Small : Diamond Crown' as they are all her property. : Despite being housed in the Jewel House of : the Tower of London, all the aforementioned : crowns and their circlets are part of the : Royal Collection thus at The Queen's : disposal to wear. : : I used a whole host of sources, nearly : everything that has been written including: : : Roberts, Bury (Both her article on the : hanoverian claim for the World Jewellery : Fair Handbook, and the Appendix of : Jewellery), Rudoe's article of Queen : Charlotte's Jewels, Garrard - history of the : crown jewellers - Munn - Field and Menkes - : The Times and other contemporary periodicals : - and more, however I do not have access : right now to my bibliography to check.
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