Re: Queen Victoria's small diamond crown Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on March 27, 2016, 3:51 am, in reply to "Re: Queen Victoria's small diamond crown (ed)"
I did not feel confident that the Royal Collection was right when I quoted that snippet. I do think Queen Alexandra kept the QV small diamond crown possibly for the rest of her life. It does not appear in the lists published in Menkes (from Twining). And I have read that the small crown was considered for breaking up to make the crown for QEQM. What a disaster that would have been! I cannot imagine Queen Mary even contemplating such destruction if the small crown was an heirloom of the crown, to use Roberts' terminology.
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