In my view it needs a looser hairstyle than that very pulled back hair Mabel had on her wedding day. It looked better on her on the eve of Beatrix' abdication and WA's succession.
It might become a favourite piece for the young princesses, but i hope the family collection has the funds to buy diamonds for it so they don't need to take them from the sapphire tiara anymore.
Mabel does not receive that many invitations for tiara events these days but she did pull off the quite modern looking 'sunburst' tiara bought at Mellerio in the 1880's which she wore at her wedding and a few times afterwards. It was not a success on Maxima. Perhaps it would work sitting in Beatrix helmet shaped hairdo.
Give it a try….. perhaps with Mabel?!
Yikes. Lets keep that idea locked in a display cabinet
The large diamonds in Queen Wilhelmina's Diamond Necklace - a gift from her father for her 9th birthday!!!- are fabulous but the festoon necklace setting is not really a winning design IMHO. Neither are all the other tiara settings: festoons, trapezium etc. What were they thinking?
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