Re: Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones Archived Message
Posted by Maria-olivia  on August 19, 2012, 4:49 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Fabiola's necklace with green stones"
To Carlo,
Interesting , when did Fabiola know the stones were fake ?
She wore her Spanish tiara for her pre-wedding .
She wore it a few time in its original frame et then nevermore !
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: 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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: --Previous Message--
: 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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: --Previous Message--
: 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.
:
: 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!
:
: 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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: --Previous Message--
: 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.
:
: 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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