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    Princess Ursula of Bavaria & the recent Swedish wedding Archived Message

    Posted by Marianne on July 9, 2013, 6:16 am

    Thanks to a kind & avid reader of these Boards I have been sent some lovely photos which may be of interest to several of you as well as I think the questions he asks are highly interesting too, so anyone who knows any answers or like to contribute is very welcome !!

    Both on the GREMB and the RJWMB we all saw a whole lot of glittering pictures of the wedding ceremony of Princess Madeleine of Sweden and Chris O'Neill - and especially of the jewels worn by the bride and the female guests.
    But, as far as he knows, there were very few pictures (well, almost none, actually), and never in HQ, of the tiara worn by Princess Ursula of Bavaria.

    Princess Ursula's tiara for this wedding was a surprise, since the big diamond tiara she usually wore at royal events was auctioned off recently at Sotheby's (on May 14th, 2013, along with the big amethyst and diamond necklace and matching earrings of Queen Therese of Bavaria and Queen Amalia of Greece).
    This tiara was, according to Sotheby's, a wedding gift from Queen Isabella II of Spain to her daughter Infanta Maria de la Paz when she married Prince Ludwig-Ferdinand of Bavaria in 1883 :
    - Infanta Maria de la Paz' diamond tiara : http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/magnificent-jewels-and-noble-jewels-ge1302/lot.368.html
    - Queen Amalia's amethyst and diamond demi-parure : http://www.sothebys.com/fr/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/magnificent-jewels-and-noble-jewels-ge1302/lot.563.html

    So, one might fear that Princess Ursula and her daughter-in-law Princess Anna don't own a tiara anymore to attend a royal wedding.
    But fortunately, these fears proved to be wrong : Anna wore a small fringe-like tiara, and Ursula wore a small tiara with floral motifs.
    Anna's tiara could be seen in rather fine detail on many pictures, but Ursula's tiara was hardly photographed by the press agencies covering the wedding ; the few pictures depicting her were quite blurry and did not make it possible to see the tiara clearly.
    One was barely able to make a few screen captures while watching the wedding on the Swedish channel SVT. One of those screencaps was made when the camera was zooming on the royal guests, and on one pic you can clearly see the tiara worn by Princess Ursula (seated in the third row, visible between Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark & Princess Märtha Louise of Norway).

    It is not an HQ, but still the clearest pic of the tiara I have seen until now.
    So the obvious question is: has anyone already seen this tiara, and does anyone know where it comes from ?

    But there is another intriguing detail with this tiara : Princess Ursula wore this tiara during the procession in the Palace courtyard before the wedding and during the wedding ceremony itself, inside the Palace chapel; but when the guests left the Royal Palace to board the vessels taking them to Drottningholm for weddingdinner & ball, she did not wear the tiara anymore, apparently, and went bare headed ......

    Does anyone know why the princess left her tiara behind ?

    Since these pictures were not taken by the person who sent them to me, but are just mere screencap or agency pictures (Zimbio),and were uploaded to PhotoBucket by me (Marianne) we just want to show them here to get some answers to various questions.

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