Re: Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 2 Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on February 21, 2012, 10:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 2"
Thanks Boffer but you do not state a souce for Queen Alexandra commissioning her own. And Queen Mary did not continue to wear the Regal Circlet. I wonder why. I'm not quite done wih the puzzle yet. --Previous Message-- : I think it is more than possible that Queen : Alexandra had her own regal circlet made. : : The picture posted of Queen Alexandra : wearing a circlet after the death of her : husband, which can be seen as she is wearing : George V's family order, indicates that she : had her own circlet. : : Whether this was made during her time as : Princess of Wales, Queen Consort or Queen : Dowager, is unclear. : : But she would not have worn Queen Victoria's : regal circlet post-1910 as this went to : Queen Mary as the new Queen Consort. Which : indicates that Queen Alexandra did indeed : have her own regal circlet constructed; : which being her private property, passed to : Queen Maud upon her death. : : I have no doubt that Queen Alexandra could : have had a circlet made, the logic that she : wanted one to wear as Queen Dowager, or even : as Princess of Wales, accounts for the fact : that she commissioned one, despite there : already being Queen Victoria's circlet. : : I believe identifying them in photographs : will be next to impossible as they are so : similar in design, the only notable : differences between Queen Victoria's circlet : and the circlet attributed to Queen : Alexandra, are that the largest diamond in : Victoria's is in the band, below the central : cross. Whereas in Queen Alexandra's the : largest diamond is actually set into the : central cross. But these are difference that : are inconsequential when studying grainy old : photographs. : : The only option to further study this, would : be the royal archives and an inventory of : Queen Alexandra's jewels, and Queen : Alexandra's Garrard Ledger, sadly both of : which are not usually accessible to the : public. : : I don't believe anything will be mentioned : about them in the new Hugh Robert's book : either as neither circlet is now in the : Queen's collection. : : --Previous Message-- : : I think Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra and : Queen Mary are all wearing the same Regal : Circlet, being the empty frame at the end. : : Queen Victoria - Queen Alexandra possibly : 1913 - Queen Mary in 1901 before her own : crown was made - Queen Maud in 1937 : Correction: Queen Mary in 1911. : : : : : : frame : : : : : : : :
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- Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 1 - Nellie February 21, 2012, 9:04 am
- Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 1 - Picture - Monica February 21, 2012, 9:13 am
- Re: Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 2 - Nellie February 21, 2012, 9:13 am
- Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 3 - Nellie February 21, 2012, 9:37 am
- possibility - Ayvee February 21, 2012, 12:46 pm
- What if? - a huge chunk of speculation - Nellie February 21, 2012, 11:32 pm
- Does this help? - Dawn February 22, 2012, 10:55 pm
- Queen Alexandra - Nellie February 22, 2012, 11:25 pm
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