Re: QEII brooch Photo on Royal Collection siteArchived Message
Posted by Beth1 on August 2, 2014, 7:26 pm, in reply to "Re: QEII brooch"
There is a photo on the Royal Collection site http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/the-commonwealth-gifts-to-the-queen/gifts-to-the-queen (see the second photo) which shows HM wearing the same dress and hat as in Baxter's third photo (The photo in question shows HM wearing a pink hat with feathers and a pink print ensemble.) Although I cannot see the brooch, I suspect the photo is from the same occasion. If so, then I think that the brooch is most likely to have been a gift from a Commonwealth country. I very much doubt if the RC people would show HM wearing borrowed jewels in an exhibition about gifts made to the Queen by Commonwealth countries.