Re: Brooch worn for 1948 Balcony appearance Archived Message
Posted by jinja on September 10, 2015, 8:02 pm, in reply to "Re: Brooch worn for 1948 Balcony appearance"
Now that I look at the photos again, there is a definite difference between the daytime and evening pictures of the queen's hat. I wonder whether she received a gift from the king to mark the occasion, and pinned it to her hat. The three royal ladies all wore those hats with open crowns that were fashionable then. The object in Baxter's first picture is a hat pin. The balcony pictures do show something next to the ribbon on the front. The queen seems almost giddy with happiness. She had such a few years to enjoy between the end of the war and the death of the king.
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