Which emerald and diamond bracelet are you mentioning? The one worn by the Queen-Mother with the Teck Crescent Tiara? The pic is really too small to see the bracelet clearly.
The Queen-Mother owned several emerald bracelets, but I don't know if one of them came from the Greville bequest.
Unless proven otherwise, we should suppose that the Greville emerald tiara was bequeathed to the Queen-Mother, along all the other Greville jewels. But we must admit that we have never seen it. With its big central cabochon emerald, it would make a nice combination, though, with the Durbar Emerald Necklace, which also includes cabochon emeralds.
Regarding the two never-worn sapphire tiaras mentioned by Leslie Field: one of them is probably the tiara known as "Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia's Sapphire Tiara", which we have discussed in a recent thread, which was worn by Queen Mary in the 1930s and 1940s, then by Princess Margaret in the 1950s. The second tiara... well, I do not know! But I would love to see them too.
--Previous Message-- : Dear Arthur, : : look also on the emerald and diamond : bracelet. : : Two thinks I would like to know : : : - if Queen Elizabeth the queen Mother was : also given the emerald and diamond tiaras ; : - photos of the 2 sapphire and diamons : tiaras owned by queen Elizabeth Ii and not : worn : : Franck : : --Previous Message-- : Sorry, Merlin, I had misunderstood your : previous post. : : You are right, the Queen-Mother wore the : Greville Emerald Necklace with the Teck : Crescent Tiara: : : : : And Juliana's State visit to Britain was : indeed in 1972, not 1978. I have edited the : message to correct this small typo error. : : : PS: Merlin and Arthur... that reminds me : something! : : : : : --Previous Message-- : No, I quite accept the Queen Mother didn't : only wear the Greville Emeralds with the : Honeycomb, but at the events I mentioned she : did. : In 1953 didn't she wear the emeralds with : the Duchess of Teck's crescent tiara ? : In my earlier post I forgot to mention that : the Queen Mother wore her emeralds in Italy : in 1959. : And I think the picture at Queen Juliana's : Banquet is 1972 not 1978. : : : --Previous Message-- : Thank you, Merlin, for this list of events. : : Queen(-Mother) Elizabeth has not always worn : the Greville Emerald Necklace with the : Greville Honeycomb Diamond Tiara. Along with : the 90th birthday photos (when she was bare : headed), she wore the necklace at least once : with Queen Mary's Fringe Tiara (on 13 : November 1950, probably at Covent Garden): : : : : In his book about Boucheron ( Boucheron, : Archives secrètes , published in 2009), : Vincent Meylan mentions a few historical : details about the Greville emeralds (my very : personal translation from the French : version): : : - " In 1911, [Mrs Greville] deposits : her two emerald necklaces (the big and the : little one, as mentionned in the registers) : to have them transformed into a single one : ". This is probably the necklace we are : discussing. No attribution is mentioned to : Queen Marie-Antoinette of France, contrary : to what is written in Leslie Field's The : Queen's Jewels : : - " In 1921, [Mrs Greville buys] a : diamond bandeau ornated with a 93.70 carat : emerald ". There is a picture of this : bandeau, it looks very Art Déco (and reminds : me, to some extent, the emerald tiara : acquired by Grand-Duchess Charlotte of : Luxembourg from Chaumet in the 1920s and : still in the grand-ducal collection). The : central emerald seems to be a cabochon : emerald (which would probably not be a good : match with the Greville emerald necklace, : whose style is more Edwardian and is : probably made of faceted emeralds : : - " In 1923, she completes her emerald : parure with ear hangers made with two big : pear-shaped cabochon emeralds, hanging from : a removable four-diamond line ". These : earrings were often worn by the Queen-Mother : with the necklace (here in 1978 during Queen : Juliana's State visit and in 1998 at a : London theatre): : : : : : : --Previous Message-- : : Sadly the emerald necklace was always worn : with the Greville Diamond Tiara in the : pictures I have seen and which I have noted : over the years. : : : --Previous Message-- : Dear Merlin, : : Thank you for your message ! : : Have you got photos of these events ? : : Did she wear also the greville emerald and : diamond tiara during these events ? : : Best regards, : : Franck : : --Previous Message-- : : This picture was taken at Covent Garden in : July 1974. : I would say the Greville Emerald necklace : was the third most worn of the Queen : Mother's precious stone necklaces. : On the whole it was worn for more important : events. : And because you don't often see the Queen : Mother at Buckingham Palace State Banquets : it is easy to underestimate how often this : necklace was worn. : But I have seen her wear it for the State : Banquets given for the President of Sudan in : 1964, the King of Malaysia in 1974 and the : King of Sweden in 1975. : And on other evenings during, for example, : both 1958 State Visits by the Presidents of : Italy and Germany, the Shah of Iran in 1959, : the Kings of Belgium and Greece in 1963. : Also the Queen Mother often took the : Emeralds abroad. : To Canada, New Zealand, Australia, she wore : them on two occasions in Adelaide in 1966. : And she wore them for a night out in Dundee : in 1967. : : : : --Previous Message-- : : Sorry I have no idea of the occasion. It has : not been my habit to save dates for all my : pics. : : : --Previous Message-- : Yes, that's it Nellie. Do you know what : occasion that was? : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
on July 25, 2014, 11:50 am, in reply to "
But I would love to see them too.