Princess Alexandra wears a colourful brooch. Might anything be known about it please?
The Queenslamd Government gave the Princess a brooch on her visit in 1959. Has this brooch been worn? Is there a photo of her wearing it?
--Previous Message-- : : I have always felt that Alexandra never : aspired to accumulating jewels. : She had enough to appear perfectly grand and : regal for occasions warranting that. : : There is the theory that her mother left her : jewels to her sons assuming her daughter : would be provided for by the family she : married into. : : : : As bridesmaid at the wedding of Elizabeth : and Philip : : : : : --Previous Message-- : Looking at the present beautiful banner in : GREMB with Princess Alexandra of Kent, I : remembered what I always found strange. : How come that she owns only a single tiara, : even if it has with interchangeable stones : (pearls, sapphires and turquoises). : Not only I find strange that she did not : receive more from her mother, Princess : Marina, but also that her husband, Sir Angus : Ogilvy, son of the second son of the 12th : Earl of Arlie, and a succesful business man : on his own right, was not able to give her : wife a second tiara. : OK, he a gave Princess Alexandra a nearly : exact copy of Queen Elizabeth II's pearls : and diamonds "Diamond Jubilee" : necklace (actually Queen Victoria's Diamond : Jubilee), but...... : : :
on August 19, 2012, 10:21 pm, in reply to "