Thank you & photos in Roberts Archived Message
Posted by Beth1 on September 29, 2014, 12:49 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Alexandra wearing pearl elements separately"
Thank you for finding this description, Baxter. You have solved the mystery for us. Now that you have pointed out the shape of the moulding, it all seems so clear. I wonder when and why this moulded section was made as the photo shows the earrings and brooch -- although I doubt if these are fitted into moulded sections -- but not the extension added by QEQM, and the moulded section does not seem to fit the necklace as worn by either queen. Because of this, it would not have provided secure storage for either version of the necklace. Re photos in Roberts. I should have taken the time to look this morning, as the photo of Queen Alexandra as a bride on page 86 shows that the necklace was not then longer. Roberts on page 82 has the older photo I was referring to. Of even more interest to our present discussion is the photo on page 93 showing a portrait of QA as a young Princess of Wales wearing a pearl and diamond brooch with a drop pearl. The shape of the drop suggests to me that this is the central element from her necklace. (I suspect the grayish colour of all the pearls may be artistic licence). EDIT. On page 88 Roberts says that the central pearl and diamond element in the wedding brooch is detachable. On page 92 he says that the pearl and diamond brooch with drop pearl, as depicted in the portrait on page 93, is probably the central section of her wedding brooch. I disagree, as the shape of the drop pearl and the two diamonds above it seem to me to more closely resemble the drop pearl and two diamonds from the central element of the necklace. Obviously, as Airgette's information tells us, Queen Alexandra did once wear her wedding brooch with a pearl and diamond brooch with a drop pearl.
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