Posted by joye on March 11, 2015, 8:08 pm, in reply to "Re: QEII's earrings"
These earrings were known and photographed in 1968 copyright photos and text in Sheila Young book. To say Fields is wrong, maybe on some things, is high handed until proven. She would have known these earrings from Young. I personally like these earrings. But I think the diamonds are rather grand to showcase such an ordinary pearl. I am also suspecting that The Royal Collection is not always right.
The wedding gift was a shell with 7 pearls. To my mind to find 2 matching pearls in it is surprising. Also the gift is well below par to what Bahrain gives today To Royals.
--Previous Message-- : : Thanks for your pictures Arthur, I love the : B&W one, this is not the best picture & : at this stage I can`t find the date but it : is quite a bit later than the pictures you : posted Arthur, I just thought it interesting : to see the Queen still wore these earrings, : even if not very often! : It is hard to say Joye if these are the : earrings mentioned in Field but they could : be, as the general description fits? : : --Previous Message-- : 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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