Re: Heirloom from Princess Caroline Mathilde Archived Message
Posted by Arthur on February 24, 2015, 8:51 am, in reply to "Re: Heirloom from Princess Caroline Mathilde"
Of course, Countesses Josefine, Camilla and Feodora will do what they want with their inheritance. If they want to sell their heirlooms (either in a private transaction or in a public auction), they are perfectly entitled to do so. If I well remember, they have already done it with pieces of silver and furniture; they can do the same with jewels. What I meant is that they can also decide to conclude a transaction with their cousins of the main branch to give/sell them some of the jewels inherited from their late parents (I think notably of the beautiful sapphire and diamond tiara which was frequently worn by their mother, Countess Anne-Dorte, and which was a wedding gift from Tsar Nicholas II of Russia to Queen Alexandrine in 1898, and which would be a perfect match with the beautiful sapphire and diamond necklace occasionally worn by Queen Margrethe II): Moreover, the three Countesses are perfectly entitled to do what they want with their parents' inheritance, but so far, they have not inherited the jewels currently in the possession of their uncle, Count Ingolf, or of their aunt, Princess Elisabeth. And Ingolf and/or Elisabeth are also perfectly entitled to do what they want with their own jewels - including NOT bequeathing them to their nieces: they can also bequeathe these jewels to the Royal Family's main branch, or sell them at auction to fund selected charities, etc. In other words, the three Rosenborg sisters inheriting Ingolf's and Elisabeth's jewels is a possibility, but not a certainty. As Countesses Josefine, Camilla and Feodora are now very remote from the Danish official life, and that they very rarely take part in glittering royal events, whether in Denmark or abroad, they do not really need major jewels. Therefore, I think the good deal would be that they inherit the minor jewels (brooches, bracelets, pendants, pearl necklaces, maybe the smallest tiaras...), which can be used by modern women in social circumstances, and that the biggest jewels (Count Ingolf's Fringe Tiara, Princess Elisabeth's Sapphire Tiara, Countess Anne-Dorte's Sapphire Tiara, Count Ingolf's Greek-meander diamond bracelet...) go back to the Royal Family's main branch.
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