It is indeed the breast star of the Dutch order received during Queen Beatrix's State visit to the UK in 1982. The sash of the order is fastened at shoulder's level with the big sapphire and diamond brooch, which was presented to Diana as a wedding gift by the Queen Mother, and which Diana had later mounted as the centrepiece of one of her famous and most impressive chokers.
Pictures of the late Princess of Wales with a brooch are actually very rare. Diana almost never wore brooches - maybe because she did not receive many British or foreign orders (and therefore did not need brooches to fasten her sashes), maybe because she was just not fond of brooches... or maybe both!
Besides the Queen Mother's sapphire brooch, I have seen only two (maybe three) other brooches worn by Diana:
- a diamond daisy brooch, which was reportedly a gift to her for one of her personal friends that she had comforted while he was dying (worn here in 1991 during a reception for a G7 summit at Buckingham Palace, and for another unidentified occasion):
- here an unidentified brooch worn in 1991 at Balmoral - possibly the same daisy brooch as above, but it is hard to know with certainty:
- a large corsage bow brooch, worn by Diana for a reception at the Spanish embassy in London in 1987. These are the only picture I have seen of this reception, so I don't know if this bow brooch is made of real stones, or if it is costume jewellery:
(sorry, I do not remember who posted these pictures first - probably on this board, or on the GREMB)
Has anyone other pictures of Diana wearing brooches? Thanks in advance!
At the time of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding in 2011, it was reported in the Canadian press that the Canadian government had gifted Diana, at the time of her wedding to Prince Charles, with a gold and lapis-lazuli brooch, but I have never seen a picture of this brooch.
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