I also regret the absence of tiara. Of course, the State banquet was black-tie (though a very grand-style black-tie...), but this does not exclude the possibility of tiaras (Queen Elizabeth II very often wore a tiara for black-tie occasions). And as the Queen of the United Kingdom, nobody would have blamed Camilla to wear a tiara, even while the Italian First Lady went bare headed...

Anyway, I still find that the level of pageantry and the quality of the dresses and of the jewels were well suited to a State banquet - it was much, much better than what we saw a few days ago during the State banquet of the Danish State visit to France...

I realize that Queen Camilla has now already worn most of the tiaras worn by the late Queen Elizabeth II: the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland tiara, Queen Alexandra's Kokoshnik, King George VI's Sapphire suite, the Burmese ruby tiara, the Diamond Diadem... The only two exceptions are the Vladimir Tiara (whether in its pearl or in its emerald version) and the Brazilian Aquamarine tiara, which Queen Camilla has still not worn...