This picture was taken at the French state visit to Great Britain a few months before the outbreak of World War II.
Her Majesty is wearing a ruby-and-diamond parure, some of Queen Victoria's most beautiful pieces of jewellery, originally set with opals. Queen Alexandra later had the opals replaced with fabulous blood-red Burmese rubies.
According to Leslie Field ("The Queens Jewels" p. 138)four brooches form a part of the parure and: "Two of Queen Victoria's opal brooches that had been reset with rubies are often pinned at her Garter Riband". I think that would account for two of the brooches in your picture, although Her Majesty clearly is wearing another sash here . To fasten this sash even further at the shoulder, her Majesty is also wearing Queen Victoria's diamond double bar brooch.
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on March 26, 2014, 4:29 pm, in reply to "
. To fasten this sash even further at the shoulder, her Majesty is also wearing Queen Victoria's diamond double bar brooch.