QEII Animal brooches Archived Message
Posted by Bryce  on September 15, 2014, 1:19 pm, in reply to "Re: Brooches from Kelly's "Dressing the Queen""
There are a couple of other "animal" brooches in QEII's collection
There are 2 swan brooches (that I know of). One worn a couple of years ago when she visited The Keeper of the Swans during the swan upping ceremony
and the double swam worn at Ascot this year.
There is also the British Jewellers Association Diamond Jubilee Dove brooch - although somewhat abstract
HM has a Ruby and Diamond Butterfly brooch
The Fishmongers' Dolphin (as mentioned by Arthur)
The Gold Stag
Also there are these brooches, but I have not seen a picture of HM ever wearing them
The Royal Collection highlighted The Jamaican Doctor Bird brooch
and this Gold Porcupine
This is the New Haven Horse brooch presented a couple of years ago (the tie pin was for PP)
And if I recall correctly, there is mention of a Bumble Bee brooch in Fields - sorry no picture.
So the tally above is 10 (including the red bird from the previous post)
I am sure that there are some I missed...there must be a corgie brooch somewhere !
Still, the animal kingdom is very well represented and is not a very big percentage of the total.
Cheers!
Bryce
--Previous Message--
: Unfortunately, I have not seen Queen Elizabeth
: II (or any other British royal lady) wearing
: either of these two brooches.
:
: I am not a great fan of the 'Coronation
: bouquet' brooch (though it would be
: interesting to see it worn anyway), but I
: would love to see the 'red bird' brooch, I
: find it lovely.
:
: By the way, I have the impression that Queen
: Elizabeth II has very few animal brooches.
: She has a lot of floral/foliate brooches,
: knot brooches or non-figurative brooches,
: but almost no animal brooches (with the
: exception, of course, of several of her
: regimental brooches, which can include
: heraldic animals). Besides this 'red bird'
: brooch, I only have in mind the 'sea
: creature' brooch presented by the
: Fishmongers Guild. Am I forgetting other
: brooches of animalistic design?
:
:
: --Previous Message--
: There are now only 2 brooches that I have
: not
: seen HM wear that appear on the "E II
: R" double page spread (pg 80-81) of
: Angela Kelley's book "Dressing the
: Queen".
:
: They are the coronation bouquet brooch
: (botton left) and the small red bird brooch
: (far right) - both seen here.
:
: Has anyone seen HM wearing either of these?
:
:
: Photo from the internet
:
: Cheers!
: Bryce
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