Yes, Alex G it is this emerald tiara shown in Vincent's book.
Beth also posted a photo of Queen Elizabeth wearing the greville tiara with the Greville Festoon necklace.
on this photo, princess margaret is also wearing the lozenge tiara without the pearls.
I didn"t know that she also wore this tiara in 1950 during a state visit in England.
I would like to know also if this tiara is in the vault.
To me it is the only tiara from Queen Mary (not worn since her death) that we can guess that is currently in the vault.
Franck
--Previous Message-- : : Oh yes it would be great if Vincent could : give us more information concerning this : tiara. : : I have read several articles owning to link : given by Beth saying that she had a huge : collection of pearls and emeralds, one of : the most important of europe. : : Frnck : : : --Previous Message-- : I recently saw a picture of this tiara that : has been posted online, but am not sure if : this is the tiara as I don't have Vincent's : book unfortunately. It has a large cabochon : emerald in the center and some smaller : square emeralds on the sides. : Vincent, are you able to tell us more here : about this tiara at this stage? It would be : interesting to know if it still exists ? : Thank you. : : --Previous Message-- : The emerald tiara does look lovely and would : indeed look perfect with the Delhi Durbar : necklace but of course we do not know if it : is still in existence or indeed was : inherited by the Queen in 1942. : The tiara was in existence a decade earlier : when Mrs Greville seems to have severed her : ties with Boucheron who had made it and : shifted her allegiance to Cartier. If the : tiara survived intact...was reset or : disposed of we can only speculate unless one : day it reappears... : : --Previous Message-- : Thank you very much, Beth, for providing : these : very interesting links. : : I second Franck's comments: it is very : interesting to note that this article : mentions the Greville emerald tiara as being : part of the Greville bequest. If this : article is not wrong, I wonder why this very : beautiful tiara (a picture of it is : published in Vincent Meylan's book about : Boucheron), with a very large and impressive : central cabochon emerald, has never been : seen in public since it entered the royal : jewel collection. I am not sure it would : be a good match to the Greville emerald : necklace (whose emeralds are facetted, not : cabochon), but I think it would be a very : good complement to the Delhi Durbar emerald : necklace. : : If King George VI had reservations about his : wife wearing the Greville jewels, it was : probably in reference to the WW2 context. In : those dark, terrible years, when so many : people of the UK and of the Commonwealth : were facing death, either on the battlefield : or through bombings onto their homes, he : (rightly) felt that any display of major : pageantry would have been unappropriate in : such circumstances. : : And even the years immediately following the : victory in 1945 were still tough times, with : strict rationing of food, energy, fabric... : Probably the King's sense of "public : relations" (as we say nowadays) warned : him against possible negative reactions : against the simultaneous appearing of too : many lavish jewels. The Royal tour to South : Africa in 1947, with Princess Elizabeth's : 21st birthday, gave a good (i.e. acceptable) : opportunity to display again the usual : pageantry of the British royalty. : : I wonder if another reservation from King : George VI could have come from the fact that : such a large and impressive jewel collection : was given by a private person, and thus : could have made the Royal family beholden to : this particular person, thus threatening the : King's independance and authority. : But I do not think this argument is very : convincing. It was quite customary for the : British Royal family to accept jewellery : gifts from the British nobility (see the : numerous wedding gifts presented to Queen : Mary by all the grand aristocratic : families!). And in the case of Mrs Greville, : it was known that she was a personal friend : of the King and Queen, and that she had no : immediate heirs, so I guess there was : nothing wrong in accepting such a bequest. : : Or could it be a mere (and more intimate) : feeling of jealousy from King George VI? : From the early months of their marriage : until his death in 1952, he used to present : regularly nice jewels to his beloved wife... : but he never gifted her with such impressive : jewels like the Greville Honeycomb tiara, : the Greville five-row festoon necklace or : the huge Greville diamond drop earrings (I : think his "biggest" gifts were the : Cartier Halo Tiara, the Aquamarine Pine : Tiara or Queen Elizabeth's Coronation : riviere). Maybe he could have felt that his : own personal gifts were : "outranked" by such a large and : lavish bequest??? : : Of course, this is my very own speculation. : Unless we discover documents in the Royal : Archives about the Greville bequest, we will : never know what were King George VI's : feelings regarding this bequest. : : : : : : : : :
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