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    Thank you Archived Message

    Posted by Count75 on March 10, 2016, 6:00 pm, in reply to "The Wuttemberg tiara"



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    : On his Facebook page Paul Rem, curator of
    : Palace Het Loo showed a beautiful close-up
    : of this tiara in it's impressive
    : configuration (with all the pearl spikes.
    : Enjoy!
    :
    : I'll show some more pictures to compare the
    : different settings.
    :
    : The close-up:
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    :
    :
    : Queen Juliana with the fullest setting (11
    : pearl spikes) during the state visit to the
    : UK in 1950
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : Princess Beatrix in at her wedding in 1966
    : with 5 spikes. The pattern of the tiara was
    : woven into her wedding gown.
    :
    :
    :
    : Queen Beatrix at the gala diner the night
    : before the inauguration in 2012 of her son,
    : 5 spikes again.
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : Queen Maxima with no spikes at all but it
    : looks like an extra ring with diamonds and
    : pearls was mounted under the tiara. Maxima
    : wore the tiara to the gala dinner for the
    : members of the Corps Diplomatique in
    : Amsterdam in 2015.
    :
    :
    :
    Thank you for the great pictures.

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