Frederica seems to have sold 3 significant items.The Fredeick the Great snuff box (that had come from her own family and is now in the Gilbert collection at the V&A,London) the sapphire and the diamond and pearl necklace she wears it hanging from in the pic(and which her daughter Irene wore as a tiara).
--Previous Message-- : The sapphire was sold by King Michael and : Queen Helen of Romania in the late fourties, : apparently to jeweller Harry Winston. : : Some years later the stone was bought by a : Greek millionaire, who gave to Queen : Frederica as a gift. : : I am not sure that Queen Federica sold it in : her lifetime, considering that the same : rumor we heard about the huge diamonds : tiara, and this is still in the family. : : Maybe the sapphire remained in a safe for : many years before King Constantine decided : to sell it, as he did when he sold at an : auction some of the precious objects he had : retrieved from Tatoi. There was also a : Fabergé egg which had belonged to King : George I of Greece. : : After all, we often spoke about the mistery : around the Greek RF finances. There are : rumors that a group of very rich Greek : tycoons, together they allocate a sum to : finance their former RF. : : They are among the very few ex Royals who : can keep their jewel collection, and they do : not really need to sell to survive, like the : Savoias or the Orléans. : : --Previous Message-- : Was it the big saphire of Roumania ? : : --Previous Message-- : The sapphire was sold originally by Fedrica : in : the early days of exile..it was the : subsuquent owner who sold it by auction : about a decade ago. : : --Previous Message-- : Do you have more information on the sapphire : and who sold it? Was it king Konstantin of : Greece? : : : : : : : : :
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