Re: Queen Adelaide and the Diamond Diadem Archived Message
Posted by Cyndi P  on March 15, 2014, 9:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Queen Adelaide and the Diamond Diadem"
What a fantastic picture brock,i've never seen this one before! Queen adelaide has always fascinated me. Thanks for sharing the additional information nellie.
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: Thank you for that portrait Brock, which I'm
: not sure if I have seen before.
:
: Queen Adelaide is recorded as the first
: Queen to wear the Diamond Diadem.
: Some records have said it was worn by every
: Queen since but I have never seen a pic of
: Queen Elizabeth (QM) wearing it.
:
: I'd just like to add that Queen Adelaide
: might not have been the first lady to wear
: the piece. This does not appear to have been
: proved either way.
:
: From Jewellery 1789-1910 by Shirley Bury -
: p184
: “ George Fox of Rundell’s held that George
: IV had the circlet made in order that his
: new favourite, Lady Conygham, might wear it
: after the coronation. Though he [Fox] was
: probably retailing a rumour current at the
: time, there was a tradition, probably
: originated by William III in 1689, of a male
: sovereign processing to his coronation in a
: circlet. It is, however, indisputable that
: circlets of the shape made by Rundell’s for
: the King were fashionable female wear in
: England in 1820. “
:
: From The Crown Jewels 1998 in a
: supplementary chapter on “George IV’s
: Circlet”, after noting that George IV had no
: immediate female members of his family to
: present it to, Ronald Lightbown states, -
: p311
: “Fox slyly pointed to another possible
: recipient. ‘His Majesty’, he wrote, ‘might
: have entertained the Idea ... that after it
: had been worn by him on the only occasion on
: which he could with propriety use it it
: might be a splendid ornament for the Head of
: a Lady who tho’ not entitled to any thing so
: regal yet enjoying as she did at that time
: and until his decease the Royal Favor might
: nevertheless wear any thing that he was
: pleased to bestow upon her. However this
: might or might not have been anticipated
: when the order was given the Lady in
: question certainly had it and kept
: possession of it till the demise of the King
: when with several other Articles of great
: value she delivered the whole of them up to
: the proper Officer for the use of King
: William IV and Queen Adelaide the Law
: Officers having decided that they were Crown
: Property’. “
:
: The writer goes on to say “ Fox’s allegation
: regarding Lady Conyngham, George IV’s last
: Favourite, can neither be proved nor
: disproved. “
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: This portrait of Queen Adelaide wearing
: George
: IV's Diamond Diadem was unfamiliar to me.
: Painted by John Simpson in 1832:
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