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    Posted by Count75 on November 4, 2015, 9:05 pm, in reply to "Queen Sofia of Spain jewelry"



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    : Our dear Marianne has updated the banner of
    : the GREMB in honnor of the birthday girl HM
    : Queen Sofia of Spain (thank you Marianne!).
    : As a profund admirer of this most wonderful
    : Queen I thought it would be a fitting
    : tribute to start a thread on her jewelry,
    : wishing her a much happy day and many happy
    : returns.
    :
    : The stunning royal heirloom jewels (las
    : joyas de pasar, the jewelry that according
    : to Queen Ena's will should be passed on to
    : the future Queens of Spain, and are now with
    : Queen Letizia) have been discussed here on
    : previous threads, so I thought it would be
    : interesting to post on some of the queen's
    : other pieces of jewelry, less frequently
    : worn. I am excluding the more classical and
    : frequently worn pieces (her prussian tiara,
    : the foam waves, the floral, her various
    : diamond necklaces, diamond brooches...)
    : HM has a very vast private jewelry
    : collection, some of those pieces have been
    : seen only on counted ocasions through the
    : years.
    :
    : (Credits to the pics: my archives, scanned
    : old Hola magazines, some pictures found on
    : Foros de la Realeza)
    :
    : Looking at the Getty pic posted by Marianne
    : and looking through my files I notest the
    : two shoulder clips. Could these be the same
    : clips, worn at the Kent wedding and at King
    : Filipe's enthronement? I haven't notest them
    : before. On the right pic the queen is
    : wearing her mother's rubi pendant.
    :
    :
    : Queen Sofia has two turquoise sets she
    : rarely worns. This is the only photo I've
    : ever seen of the 2nd set, the one with
    : larger stones, it was taken during an event
    : with the swedish royals in the late 1980's.
    :
    :
    : The queen has also several rubi necklaces,
    : apart from the more famous wedding gift
    : Niarchos rubis. She usually wears them with
    : her stunning swirl rubi art-deco earrings.
    : The V shape rubi necklace was worn mainly
    : during the late 70's early 80's, reapearing
    : again for the Chilean visit in 2011. It has
    : a matching pair of V shaped bracelets.
    :
    :
    : The tassel rubi necklace, loaned also to the
    : then Pss of Astúrias
    :
    :
    : The fringe rubi necklace was loaned to her
    : daughter Infanta Elena in the early 1980's.
    : Queen Sofia has worn it in recent years with
    : a pair of rubi and gold matching bracelets.
    :
    :
    : The queen has other rubi necklaces not seen
    : in years
    :
    :
    : She also has a rubi set gift from Saudi
    : royals (she wore it only for a saudi visit)
    :
    :
    : Also of most likely saudi origin are these
    : huge sapphire earrings (worn also during a
    : saudi visit). During a visit to Thailand the
    : queen wore also a huge set of saphire
    : bracelet and ring. The diamond bracelet is
    : one of the twins from Queen Ena's joyas de
    : pasar.
    :
    :
    : The queen has other sapphires in her
    : collection. A classical set she has worn for
    : many years, and a big pale blue cabichon
    : sapphire surrended by diamonds that can be
    : worn as brooch or pendant.
    :
    :
    : The emerald set, worn here at the Astúrias
    : wedding, and loaned later to the Pss of
    : Astúrias.
    :
    :
    : Queen Maria Cristina black pearls necklace.
    : Such a beautiful and modern looking
    : necklace, I almost could'nt believe it came
    : from QMC.
    :
    :
    : The comet brooch. A gift from Franco, Pss
    : Sofia wore it for the christening of Pc
    : Filipe. The queen rarely wore it. Here in a
    : pic from a visit to Italy in the 1980's.
    :
    :
    : The queen has a lot of more modern necklaces
    : and brooches.
    : A Bulgari necklace with pink tourmaline,
    : aquamarine, peridot and citrine (the queen's
    : differs a bit from the one in Bulgari
    : catalogue but its the same collection).
    :
    :
    : The eye of time brooch by Salvador Dalí.
    :
    :
    : Queen Sofia has alot more jewels in her
    : private collection, and luckily we get to
    : see them from time to time. A lot of jewelry
    : available for future generations (Leonor,
    : Sofia, Vitoria Frederica, Irene... ).
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    Thank you for posting these great pictures.


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