Re: Queen Mary amethysts - pictures from Australia? Archived Message
Posted by Janet B on March 10, 2013, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Queen Mary amethysts - pictures from Australia?"
The only photo I have found which offers some measure of detail from the opening of the First Australian Federal Parliament show Mary wearing a long strand of pearls and what appears to be the pearl brooch of Augusta, The Duchess of Cambridge. http://exhibitions.senate.gov.au/pogg/images/opening/duke_duchess_large.jpg --Previous Message-- : Thank you all for the input. The royal family : was constantly in mourning back in the early : 20th century. The mourning period for Queen : Victoria was a whole year, and the court : often went into mourning for a couple or : three weeks for continental royals distantly : related to the British royals. : Thus the royal ladies would have had lots of : mourning jewellery which we hardly ever see : today. : : I wonder - seeing how this was such an : important occasion for the young Australian : nation - whether there might be any pictures : in Australian archives? : : --Previous Message-- : The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall of York : (later King George V and Queen Mary) toured : the Commonwealth for six months March to : October 1901, visiting Gibraltar, Malta, : Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, Australia, New : Zealand, Mauritius, Natal and Cape of Good : Hope, and Canada. : : The highlight of the tour was the opening of : the first Australian Federal Parliament in : Melbourne 9 May 1901. On the evening after : the formal opening there was a gala : reception, and the dress of the duchess was : described thus in The London Times: : ´The Duchess of Cornwall, who was dressed in : black, wore a tiara and a necklace of : amethysts, which belonged to Queen : Charlotte´. : : The royals were still in mourning for Queen : Victoria, who had died the previous January, : which explain the sombre colour of the dress : and the appropriate amethyst jewels. : : I wonder, however, if you have previously : read of an amethyst tiara (or other amethyst : jewels) from Queen Charlotte? There are not : many amethyst jewels in use today except the : Kent demi-parure. There was an amethyst : tiara which belonged to Queen Mary and was : later sold by a descendant (sometimes : wrongly described as sold by the late Queen : Mother). Others? : : :
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Message Thread:
- Queen Mary amethysts - Torkel March 7, 2013, 3:26 pm
- Re: Queen Mary amethysts - Nellie March 7, 2013, 4:22 pm
- Re: Queen Mary amethysts - Janet B March 9, 2013, 11:06 am
- Re: Queen Mary amethysts - pictures from Australia? - Torkel March 10, 2013, 3:37 pm
- Melbourne, Australia, May 1901 - the full story - Nellie March 11, 2013, 2:52 am
- Australian gold brooch - Torkel March 11, 2013, 11:58 am
- Amethysts - Nellie March 12, 2013, 2:38 am
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