Posted by Jos on September 21, 2012, 5:55 am, in reply to "Re: star elements"
This is all extremely confusing. If you take a good look at pictures of Queen Wilhelmina with the Begeer tiara with stars it seems that those are NOT the stars of Maxima's wedding tiara but those from Queen Emma's Van Kempen tiara. Those on Maxima's tiara are larger and more flat. The star brooch on Maxima's sash in Trondheim and Copenhagen is even larger - and now there seem to be three of them! Could it be that the six "large" star brooches given by the Prince of Wied to Queen Emma in 1879 were never mounted on the Begeer tiara but only on Maxima's wedding tiara? Brus mentions that the six Wied stars originally were mounted on a simple frame for the stars only. I have never seen pictures of this tiara. Queen Juliana wore 10 diamond stars on her dress on the second day of Queen Elizabeth's state visit to the Netherlands in March 1958. I wonder of HQ pics of these would help.
--Previous Message-- : Thank you for your great post. I think it must : be possible to create a nice star diadem : with the stars, maybe with a jeweller : creating a pair or three extra identical : ones to get a diadem with 7 star prongs. :