Posted by joye on March 11, 2015, 2:15 am, in reply to "Re: QEII's earrings"
Arthur I was not upset at your reply you are right Bahrain earrings do have 5 tiers plus pearl. Again right wedding gift not coronation gift. I contacted Royal Collection in 2007 to get my eventual info on pearls used for the earrings.
--Previous Message-- : Joye, : : I did not suggest that I have found the : certain, absolute and definitive answer to : the question you have initially asked. I : just offered a suggestion, a possible : answer, with the appropriate : conditional/interrogative form ("could : this be...?"). : : What I know is that the Bahrain earrings : could match the description given by Leslie : Field (" pendant pearls suspended from : 5 tiers of collet and baguette cut diamonds : "): : - 1st tier (from the top): one large collet : diamond : - 2nd tier: one small collet diamond : - 3rd tier: three baguette diamonds : - 4th tier: two small collet diamonds : - 5th tier: one small collet diamond : - and a pearl hanging from the diamond : mount, thus technically a "pearl : pendant". : : What we also know, thanks to the Royal : collection, is that the two pearls hanging : from the Bahrain earrings, were presented to : the then Princess Elizabeth by the ruler of : Bahrain in 1947 as a wedding gift (and not : in 1953 as a Coronation gift): : : http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/royalwedding1947/object.asp?row=14&exhibs=GIFTABROAD&grouping= : : Can we be 100% sure that the Bahrain : earrings are the ones described by Field? Of : course, we can not be sure, as Field does : not provide any picture. But the description : matches. : : I am aware that Field says that the earrings : described in her book were never worn by the : Queen, whereas I have found pictures of the : young Princess/Queen Elizabeth II wearing : the Bahrain earrings. But could Field be : wrong on this point? Possibly. She was wrong : on other points. About these earrings, she : could have "missed" the pictures I : have posted (or she could have seen them, : but without identifying the earrings). As : Queen Elizabeth II had not worn these : earrings in public after the mid-1950s, : maybe the people who provided Field with : information in the 1980s were not aware that : the earrings had been worn in the 1950s. I : have no certainty: I do not say that Field : is wrong, but that she could be wrong. : : And as Beth1 has pointed out, the Bahrain : earrings are not mentioned elsewhere in : Field's book (if it had been the case, we : could have deduced that she was refering to : two different pairs of earrings). : : I have done my best to try to find an answer : to Joye's initial question. If anyone has a : better suggestion to offer, let he/she do : it. : : : Source: : http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2081180/hm-queen-elizabeth-ii-b-1926 :
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