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    Re: Levisham/ Dartmouth Tiara Archived Message

    Posted by Cristina on July 8, 2013, 5:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Levisham/ Dartmouth Tiara"

    Veronika thank you for the picture, I'm sure it is the tiara worn as necklace. The distintive shape of the larger and smaller motifs is clearly visible in your picture, also the setting of the pearls, it seems only secured from the back. It matches in every detail the design of the tiara.
    Plus, if we look careful to the beautiful HQ of the tiara you posted above we can see that the frame has rigid metal spikes to secure each of the several elements of the jewel, it must be very flexible in order to wore as necklace.

    And if Countess Raine had two matching pieces of these jewels (tiara and necklace) I bet she would have worn them together for greater efect, and there are only pictures of her wearing it as one of the versions separately .

    At this event in 1998 she is wearing her long diamond earrings she often wears. If I am not mistaken she was no longer Countess Spencer by this time, so she had no longer acess to the Spencer pendant diamond earrings.


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    : Cristina, the only picture I can find is this
    : one, but I am not sure wether it really is
    : the converted tiara:
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    : © Alexander TUMA/ CONTRAST - CON 539561 --
    : Wien,
    : 19.02.1998, Lady Raine SPENCER, Portrait,
    : Opernball 1998,
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    : Yes, Raine Spencer wore the Honeysuckle
    : Diamond Tiara at least once. Some years ago
    : I saw in an old Hola magazine from the early
    : 1980's a picture of Raine and her husband
    : Earl Spencer leaving for a gala event, she
    : was wearing the honeysuckle tiara (the most
    : recent version of it, as displayed in the
    : Spencer jewels exibition) and the diamond
    : pendants (now hanging from the Spencer
    : diamond riviére) as earrings.
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    : I have no information on the provenance of
    : the pearl and diamond tiara she is wearing
    : on the picture, but I am sure it can be
    : converted to necklace. Raine wore it as
    : necklace for King Constantine of Greece 50th
    : birthday party along with the Spencer
    : diamond pendants as earrings.
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    : Dawn, you're right.
    : I only vaguely remember (from a book I
    : suppose) that Raine Countess Spencer
    : infrequently wore the Spencer Honeysuckle
    : Diamond Tiara. But I have no proof for that
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    : No, I don't see (so far) any published
    : picture
    : of Raine, Countess Spencer wearing the
    : Spencer family tiara. Only Lady Jane
    : Fellowes, Lady Sarah McCorquodale, Princess
    : Diana and Victoria (the current Earl
    : Spencer's 1st wife) wore that tiara.
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    : This is the only tiara I remember worn by
    : Raine Countess Spencer:
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    : Credit: Tim Graham, Getty Images
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    : Credit: ALbion Art Collection
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    : Did she ever wear the Spencer tiara worn by
    : Diana?
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