Re: Dividing up the brooches into categories... Archived Message
Posted by Franck   on June 24, 2013, 3:36 pm, in reply to "Re: Dividing up the brooches into categories..."
Interesting question you have raised.
I don't think that the queen has hundred of brooches she has not worn.
It would be so strange...that theses brooches would not be worn and displayed on exhibition...Perhaps her numbers of brooches is between 200 and 300 broches..moreover see on the site the royal collection she seems to have a lot of brooches that have not a great value...like sentimental trinklets..
from queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra...
Dear Gillw can I ask you also a question ? How many emerald and diamond brooches has she got and worn ? To me only six :
- The delhi carved emerald
- the round cambridge emerald
- The scroll cambridge emerald
- the emerald and diamond sharpech
- the shamrock emerald and diamond brooch worn in Northern Ireland
- a small brooch including a central emerald framed by diamonds.
Can you add other emerald and diamond brooches worn by her Majesty ? I don't think so therefore she seems to have less diamond and emeralds brooches than others stones..
Franck
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: Oh I recall a story years back that there
: were rooms of them, in their boxes in
: Clarence House.
: The royal ladies were given them almost
: every time they appeared somewhere to cut a
: ribbon or plant a tree.
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: Maybe, but the QM didn't wear nearly as many
: as QEII does. And it's not as if she
: inherited lots from her own family - and
: Queen Mary's went straight to the Queen,
: bypassing the QM. She had a few from Mrs
: Greville and a few of her own, but I doubt
: if her total hoard of brooches was more than
: 30-ish at most.
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: What if I add all the brooches inherited
: from her mother. Technical perhaps but
: true.
:
: Anyway, I will be interested to read what
: some other people might think about this.
:
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: I just can't imagine there are that many
: hundred unseen brooches. I don't doubt there
: are some that have not, and may never,
: appear, but I'd be totally astonished if
: there were hundreds of them.
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: Thanks for the overview Gill.
:
: I was thinking of brooches we have never
: even seen. There must be loads of those so
: I would say, overall, between 500 and 1000.
:
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: The estimated number of brooches varies but
: is
: somewhere close to 200. I have 135
: specifically listed - but I only have them
: in that list if I have a specific date for
: the wearing, as it is a dated catalogue. So
: there are some - especially early ones -
: that I haven't got included because I only
: have an undated picture.
:
: Also, it is not always clear in some photos
: , if there is a side or partial view, for
: instance, and this can give rise to inflated
: numbers, whereas it may turn out that a
: "mystery" brooch was actually a
: well known one.
:
: They also appear for every kind of occasion
: - I've seen the Albert used to pin the back
: of a sash, for instance. We may feel the
: Albert is an "important" brooch,
: too good for such a task, but to HM, it is
: apparently just another "safety
: pin"!!! There are not many that the
: Queen reserves for certain kinds of
: occasions, so for us to divide them up in
: such away would be a bit pointless.
:
: The queen does have her favourites, which
: appear regularly, but then she will have a
: phase of bringing one out that we have not
: seen for some time and it will be worn a few
: times in a year, and then go back into the
: jewel box again.
:
: Then again, there are the occasional new
: gifts, which often make a token, but
: relevant, appearance then vanish from view
: to reappear only when a pertinent Ambassador
: visits!
:
: My own database has slipped in recent
: months, but I am intending to put in some
: work to bring it right up to date, as soon
: as I can.
:
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: Well, you can never have too much of a good
: thing!
:
: Thanks, gill -- I seem to recall her wearing
: it to Ascot. We might not see it there for a
: while, but I hope to see it at some other
: event in the not-too-distant future.
:
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: Well, actually HM did wear the Williamson
: Pink
: to Ascot in 2011! Maybe it's not on the rota
: to appear there again for a while yet
:
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: In my memory she seems to only wear the
: Williamson on state or very important
: functions like the Obama's visit and silver
: jubilee.
: I wouldn't have thought she would wear it to
: a more social event like Ascot
:
: Perhaps you can tell us just when she has
: worn it Gill ?
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:
: Alas, no outing for the beautiful Williamson
: brooch, which would also have looked grand
: on HM`s pink outfit.... (which she wore a
: few days ago, I know she wore blue again
: today )
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: Do we think HM will be there today again,
: maybe with another lovely surprise? I'd love
: to see her wearing the brooch that was a
: 60th wedding anniversary gift from the
: Commonwealth Heads of Government (Or was it
: just from Uganda?)
:
:
: Bostwana. . .
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