Re: Princess Helena's ears of wheat tiara Archived Message
Posted by Stig on September 16, 2016, 4:07 am, in reply to "Re: Princess Helena's ears of wheat tiara "
--Previous Message-- : Do we then know when was the last time the : bigger version of this tiara was seen? I think at Princess Benedikte's wedding in 1968. But the question is also: When did we first time see the small version? : Could the phrase 'broken : up' mean that only some of the ears of wheat : were removed and the tiara still existed : although in a smaller version which was past : down to Princess Feodora? According to Count Christian of Rosenborg (related in "Juvelerne i det danske kongehus" by Bjarne Steen Jensen) it was broken up ten years after the death of Princess Helena. The four biggest ears of wheat were inherited by her children Feodora, Caroline-Mathilde, Gorm and Oluf - and the two smallest by her granddaughters Alix and Thyra (daughters of Alexandrine-Louise). The centre stone was sold to a jeweller. If Princess Feodora bought the centre stone and either bought or borrowed some of the pieces inherited by her siblings, it would have enabled her to make the smaller version of the tiara. But this theory doesn't make sense if there are pictures of her wearing the smaller tiara earlier than 1968 - or if she indeed wore it at Ingolf's wedding, same time as Dorrit wore the big version.
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