Re: New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara Archived Message
Posted by Singa  on December 15, 2012, 4:56 pm, in reply to "New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara "
Neither of the cut steel jewels was part of the Bernadotte Collection prior to Queen Silvia discovering them somewhere in a palace attic. So maybe the King decided to gift the smaller one to the Crown Princess at some point and put the rest into the collection. It might not have been to Queen Silvia's taste and I find it's a bit small for a queen. It could be someone else's property by I suspect it is Victoria's as it has been worn by her exclusively up to now.
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: In the new edition of Roger Lundgren’s Swedish
: magazine ‚Kungliga’, he wrote a two-page
: article about the cut steel jewelry in the
: Bernadotte collection.
: According to him, all of the pieces
: including the newly appeared small cut steel
: tiara with matching haircomb originally
: belonged to Queen Hortense of Holland who at
: one point gave them as a gift to her niece
: Joséphine of Leuchtenberg, later Queen
: Josefina of Sweden.
: As previously thought, they don't really
: form a parure but are essentially Queen
: Hortense's collection of early 19th century
: cut steel jewels.
: (Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of
: Joséphine and Napoléon’s step-daughter, was
: married to Napoléon’s brother Louis, and
: Josefina was her niece, daughter of
: Joséphine’s son Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke
: of Leuchtenberg.)
:
: However, Lundgren calls the question why the
: small cut steel tiara has stayed in the
: vaults for such a long time a ‘mystery’.
: The odd thing is that the ‘new’ small tiara
: is officially labelled ‘privately owned’ by
: the Court, which leads to the question why
: parts of the Queen Hortense collection of
: cut steel pieces are included in the
: Bernadotte Foundation while others are
: someone’s personal property.
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: Lundgren also quotes Queen Silvia as saying
: about the large cut steel tiara:
: “It is so light and fragile that it almost
: feels as if snow falls on your head when
: you’re wearing it.”
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