Re: Queen Louise of Denmark wearing a kokoshnik tiara Archived Message
Posted by Beth on August 1, 2016, 3:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Queen Louise of Denmark wearing a kokoshnik tiara"
Wonderful to see this photo again. Re the possible date for the photo. Roberts page 102 footnote 1 says that the new self adjusting frame for the tiara was made by Garrard in 1895. As the diamond bars appear to sit closer together and not fall outwards in the photo of Queen Louise, the photo has to have been taken after the May 1895 Garrard ledger entry and before Queen Louise's death in September 1898. I also find it interesting to see how long the tiara was before 16 of the diamond bars were removed. Roberts does not provide a date for when that major change was undertaken. I suspect it would have been undertaken by Queen Mary. Christian, do you know when the relief by J. Th Hansen was done?
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