Re: Koh-i-noor mounted on the Regal Circlet Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on October 20, 2015, 2:31 am, in reply to "Re: Koh-i-noor mounted on the Regal Circlet"
Found the following in my notes, from when the online Journals of Queen Victoria were open to all, briefly: A segment from the online Journal [Vol 40 p137] states - “ for the great Ball at the Hôtel de Ville, to which from 7 & 9,000 people had been invited, I wore a white dress embroidered with gold, & my big diamond diadem with the Koh-i-noor in it. It was much admired by the Emperor & by everybody; he asked if the dress were English & I said no, - that it had been made, on purpose, in Paris. “ In Travels with Queen Victoria by HRH The Duchess of York [as she then was] and Benita Stoney, there is a watercolour by Arthur Diets, for that event, showing the entrance to the Galerie des Glaces, Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Very hard to see but -
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