Posted by Arthur on October 2, 2014, 3:49 am, in reply to "Gertrude Bernadotte"
Thank you, Maud, for this picture.
Count Oscar Bernadotte af Wisborg (born 1921 and presumably still alive, if Wikipedia is accurate), pictured on the photo with his wife Gertrud, is the son of Count Carl (1890-1977) and of his first wife Marianne De Geer (1893-1978) (Countess Gerty, pictured in my initial post, was Carl's second wife). So this Count Oscar "Junior" was the grand-son of Prince Oscar "Senior" (himself the son of King Oscar II) and of his wife Ebba, which would be coherent with Oscar "Junior" inheriting/receiving/being loaned Queen Josefina's pearl necklace at some time.
Yet, I am puzzled by your picture: on Princess Augusta's, Queen Josefina's, Countess Ebba's and Countess Gerty's portraits, the two rows of pearls of the necklace seem to be very close from each other; but here, on this picture of Countess Gertrud, there is a significant gap between the two rows...
But I must also admit that, on the picture released by Sotheby's ahead of the coming auction, there is also such a gap between the two rows...
Could there be not one necklace, but two? After all, the portraits of Princess Augusta of Bavaria have proved that there were several similar-looking jewels in the Leuchtenberg collection. The mystery gets thicker...