Re: New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara Archived Message
Posted by wymanda  on December 15, 2012, 6:44 pm, in reply to "Re: New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara "
Hopefully they will lose the "Toybox" aquamarine thing that Madelaine wore as a teenager & keep this small tiara for Estelle.
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: 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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