Re: Coronation exhibit at Buckingham Palace Archived Message
Posted by Helen  on August 22, 2013, 12:30 am, in reply to "Re: Coronation exhibit at Buckingham Palace"
Thanks windsorfan...it is lovely to have a report on this years exhibition. I went last year & it is difficult to think it was 12 months ago!
The room where all the diamonds were on display was darkened & so the diamonds really glistened in the dark.
There was Queen Victoria's little crown, Queen Alexandra's Kokoshnik tiara, Queen Mary's Delhi & Girls of GB tiaras, all the Cullianan pieces in the Royal Collection, the Williamson brooch, the waterfall brooch & the coronation necklace & earrings. And finally as you were about to leave the George IV diadem.
It was fantastic...I made a note in my diary when I was having tea afterwards to make sure that I remembered all the pieces we had seen!
I have subsequently found this on Youtube video which really shows what it was like & brings it all back!
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: Thank you so much windsorfan for reporting
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: I recall how the artist Ralph Heimans said
: that he was deeply impressed by Queen
: Victoria's diamonds flashing as the Queen
: approached down a long corridor to sit for
: her portrait The Coronation Theatre .
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