Re: Girls of Great Britain bandeau base Archived Message
Posted by Laurence  on September 25, 2012, 4:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Girls of Great Britain bandeau base"
I always thought the The Queen meant that she found the metal frame that is used to attach the bandeau and the upper part of the tiara.
Laurence
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: i'm not questionning he Queen's comment (I too
: saw the documentary) nor that the Queen
: didn't realize the two pieces go together
: until much after she received it as a
: present. I'm merely expressing puzzlement
: that it was only after Queen Mary death that
: the realization came.
:
: I guess Nellie's got it right. After Queen
: Mary's death, her inventories became
: accessible. Possibly, it was only after
: reading these that someone put two and two
: together, and realized that the two pieces
: were part of a whole.
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: I agree with you Boris and Nellie. The
: collection of jewels is so large and varied
: that it's natural that the two pieces were
: separated in storage and not linked
: together. I can just imagine someone in the
: jewel vault finding the bandeau base and
: thinking "does this piece go with
: something or is it by itself?"
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: That the Queen herself did not link the two
: pieces is quite understandable I think.
: And I have never been clear about whether
: the band was part of the original gift to
: Princess May.
: Perhaps the connection was made only when
: the Queen inherited Queen Mary's
: photographic record of jewels.
:
: I would love to see that record, and Queen
: Alexandra's, published by the Royal
: Collection.
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: --Previous Message--
: But this is how she herself remembers and
: tells it in the remarkable video from the
: sitting.
: As the two pieces were exhibited seperately,
: they were most likely given as two pieces
: and stored seperately as well.
: I believe it's most likely a case of royal
: jewelry watchers being more diligent than
: royal jewelry owners; in the course of the
: years, we have more than once come to the
: realization that a royal lady might actually
: knowe less about a piece which is at her
: disposal than some of the experts here who
: gather information about said piece.
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: --Previous Message--
: i am always perplexed when i hear that story
: of the Queen finding the bandeau in the
: stores after QUeen Mary's death. The press
: pictures of her wedding gifts shows a
: bandeau next to, but separate from, the
: Girls of Great Britain tiara. That bandeau
: has always been identified (or maybe assumed
: to be) the base of that tiara. Would The
: Queen simply have forgotten her wedding
: present and re-discovered it a few years
: later after her grandmother's death? Sounds
: rather unlikely to me.
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