I think that Queen Victoria's stomacher was made with various elements which were assembled together, maybe temporarily, to make a stomacher.
I am quite certain that the central top element of the stomacher is the large diamond brooch regularly worn by the Swedish Queens and Princesses. In my files, I have this brooch recorded as the "Braganza Brooch" (which could indicate that it comes from the inheritance of Queen Josefina's sister, Empress Amelia of Brazil), but I do not remember the source of this information.
This 'Braganza Brooch' can be seen here on Crown Princess Victoria's shoulder, on Queen Silvia's shoulder and on Crown Princess Victoria's hair, at the Nobel ceremonies, respectively in 2007, 2011 and 2014:
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I wonder if the two side pearl drops at the bottom of Queen Victoria's stomacher could be these large pearl earrings (probably from the Bernadotte collection?). One of these drops (the one on our right on Queen Victoria's picture posted by Malluu and on Queen Silvia's left ear on the picture below, taken at the 2009 Nobel ceremony) seems to have a distinctive elongated shape (I mean more elongated than a "usual" pear-shape pearl). The same earrings were worn by Princess Madeleine at the 2007 Nobel ceremony and by Queen Silvia at Hereditary Grand-Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg's wedding in October 2012:
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Regarding the necklaces worn by Queen Victoria (or should I say "piled one above another", "à la Queen Mary"), I wonder if the largest of the pearl necklaces worn by Queen Victoria could be the necklace of large pearls of the Bernadotte collection. Some of the pearls of the Bernadotte necklace seem to have slightly oval shapes, as well as slightly varying overtones - which seems to be the case too on the largest pearl necklace worn by Queen Victoria (as far as we can make up our mind from a black-and-white picture, of course).
There are also in the Swedish collection other necklaces of smaller pearls which could be worn by Queen Victoria - but of course, it is quite impossible to identify such necklaces with certitude:
At Archduke Otto of Habsburg-Lorraine's funeral in July 2011: (Source: Martin Schalk/Getty Images Europe, via Zimbio.com)
At King Carl XVI Gustaf's 40th Jubilee celebrations in September 2013: (Source: Ragnar Singsaas/Getty Images Europe, via Zimbio.com)
At Queen Margrethe II's 70th birthday in April 2010: (Source: Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images Europe, via Zimbio.com)
on April 1, 2015, 8:05 am, in reply to "
