Re: Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones Archived Message
Posted by Carlo  on August 18, 2012, 4:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones"
I just read the caption to the photograph I posted earlier today in the book by Christophe Vachaudez, "Bijoux des reines et princesses de Belgique". It reads"....The Queen is wearing the diadem with a parure called "Tunisian" set with diamonds, rubies and green stones, which apparently is a present from the King.
Concerning the green stones in the "Spanish Gift" tiara, there is the well known story about the nuns, who owned it, before selling it. Apparently, in order to raise money for the poors, before deciding to sell the all tiara, they started to sell the emeralds individually, and they replaced them with paste.
When this was discovered, after the gift was delivered to Queen Fabiola, in order to repair the embarrassment, the Spanish officials provided real stones for the tiara.
I do not know whether or not to believe this story, because really don't you think that before presenting an official gift to a Royal person or to any VIP, you have some experts checking the object, especially if it comes from a private purchase. Of course if it came from an auction sale experts would have checked it.
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: Uh oh. Perhaps I stand corrected. Lighting
: DOES make a world of difference for colored
: stones. Observe Queen Elizabeth The Queen
: Mother here in the 'Those Were The Days'
: thread.
: Her emeralds look black too.
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: I'm no gemologist, but try as I might I
: can't
: find any images online of emeralds with such
: a dark hue. Even the poorest quality
: emeralds I've seen in cheap stores here in
: the USA have a lively green color. There IS
: another photo we've seen on this board and
: others where the Franco gift is worn in it's
: crown configuration with very green, emerald
: like stones. Likewise, there is an image of
: her with very bright red ruby-like stones.
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: I think these are onyx, jet or black coral?
: Why not she already had aquamarine, ruby (?)
: and emerald (?) stones to interchange. If I
: were her, I would have acquired turquoise
: and opal too!
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: As for this green stone necklace, I like it.
: It's very unique and I suspect it is not an
: inexpensive piece. Perhaps one of those
: lovely green stones surrounded by their
: diamonds could be detached and worn as a
: brooch.
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: Looking at the gift received by HM the Queen
: Elizabeth II from the province British
: Columbia, Canada, the jade necklace, I
: thought to the one owned by Queen Fabiola of
: Belgium. I read several times that they are
: not emeralds, and in fact they do not look
: like emeralds.
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: Also in the book by Christophe Vachaudez,
: concerning the stones of the tiara, he does
: not confirm that they are emeralds (they are
: very dark).
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