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    Re: QEII's earrings Archived Message

    Posted by Nellie on March 12, 2015, 12:23 am, in reply to "Re: QEII's earrings"


    Field has been shown to be wrong in a number of places, a number of times over the years here, on the RJWMB.

    So has Menkes, Munn - and Roberts!!

    Edit: and in the interests of precision, the name of the author under discussion is Field.



    --Previous Message--
    : 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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