Re: What about Princess Ragnhild's jewels? Archived Message
Posted by Arthur  on October 16, 2014, 10:49 am, in reply to "Re: What about Princess Ragnhild's jewels?"
I know that Princess Ragnhild once made negative comments in a TV interview about Haakon's and Märtha-Louisa's respective spouses. But I do not think it could have been an appropriate reason to break the agreement concluded between the three royal siblings to return the main royal jewels to the monarch after the Princesses' death.
And even if Ragnhild disliked Mette-Marit, she would have been aware that the first lady in line to wear Queen Maud's tiara would be Queen Sonja, and not Mette-Marit.
Regarding the length of time after Princess Ragnhild's death, I personally think that two years is a long enough time to avoid the negative impression of "greedily grabbing at their dead relatives' jewels". For instance, Crown Princess Victoria only waited three months after Princess Lilian's death to wear her laurel-wreath tiara...
And IMHO, wearing the deceased Princess' tiara could be interpreted as a kind of tribute, rather than as a disrespectful sign of greed.
But of course, only the Royal Family knows what they intend to do with the diamond tiara, and who will wear it, and when...
I just express my hope that we will not have to wait until Princess Ingrid-Alexandra comes of age or marries...
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: Princess Ragnhild was not that happy about
: the Crown Prince Wedding !
: What I don't understand Princess Margaretha
: of Luxembourg/ Liechtenstein was Princess
: Margaretha of Denmark 's Godchild (same
: name) such as Princess Ragnhild. She should
: receive her great grandmother 's tiara.
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: To me it doesn’t seem such a surprise that
: we
: haven’t seen this tiara again by now, as I
: don’t think that two years is such a long
: time. They probably wouldn’t want to be seen
: as greedily grabbing at their dead relatives
: jewels. So I believe that the NRF will let
: the tiara lie in the vault for several more
: years before it is worn again.
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: Maybe they will even keep it for Ingrid
: Alexandra
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: This State banquet makes me think about the
: jewels of the late Princess Ragnhild of
: Norway, Mrs Lorentzen (eldest sister of King
: Harald V and of Princess Astrid, Mrs
: Ferner).
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: It was said that Queen Maud's diamond tiara,
: worn throughout her life by Princess
: Ragnhild, would revert to the main line of
: the Royal Family (i.e. to the King).
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: Princess Ragnhild died two years ago (16th
: September 2012), but so far, we have still
: not seen the tiara again.
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: Do you think we will see Queen Maud's
: diamond tiara again? How reliable is the
: information that the main royal jewels of
: the King's sisters should revert to him
: after their death?
: Trond Norén Isaksen's blog is very
: affirmative about this family agreement (he
: had personal talks with Princess Astrid, who
: explicitely told him that her turquoise and
: diamond parure and the Vasa tiara would go
: to the King after her death, but I do not
: know if he had similar talks with Princess
: Ragnhild):
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: http://trondni.blogspot.fr/2012/10/royal-jewels-queen-mauds-grand-diamond.html
: I consider Trond Norén Isaksen to be a
: reliable source of information, but I am
: puzzled anyway by the fact that the tiara
: was still not seen, two years after Princess
: Ragnhild's death.
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: The President of India is currently making a
: State visit to Norway - the first ever by an
: Indian President.
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: Yesterday, the traditional State banquet
: took place at Oslo's Royal Palace.
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: Nothing really new on the jewels' side
: (Queen Sonja with the Leuchtenberg emeralds,
: Crown Princess Mette-Marit with her usual
: Daisy Tiara, Princess Astrid Mrs Ferner with
: her Ruby Aigrette), but it is always a
: pleasure to see Scandinavian pageantry!
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: We can notice that Queen Sonja is wearing a
: pearl bracelet with a rectangular emerald
: and diamond clasp. She had worn this
: bracelet at Crown Princess Victoria of
: Sweden's wedding in 2010:
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: I think that the emerald and diamond clasp
: can also be mounted as the clasp of a pearl
: choker:
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