Re: What if? - a huge chunk of speculation Archived Message
Posted by Nellie on February 22, 2012, 2:27 am, in reply to "Re: What if? - a huge chunk of speculation"
Thanks again. Queen Alexandra's circlet would have had Cullinan VI attached? --Previous Message-- : I personally don't at all doubt Queen : Alexandra commissioned her own Regal : Circlet, which is now the one with the : Norwegian Royal Family. : : The pictures of Queen Alexandra wearing a : circlet and Queen Victoria's small crown in : 1913, I believe show the circlet she : commissioned and is now with the Norwegian : royals. My basis for this is not only that : Queen Mary had access to QV's circlet from : 1910 onwards, although she chose not to wear : it as she had her own circlet. : : But also because of the tellingly large : stone that is in the front cross. As can be : seen here and in other pictures from the : same setting, although grainy, there is no : doubt that the stone at the centre of the : cross is a fairly substantial stone. : : : : (reference to the picture being from 1913 : can be found here) : : http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/object.asp?searchText=queen+alexandra&x=0&y=0&pagesize=100&object=9215&row=51&detail=about : : Compare the picture of Queen Alexandra I : just posted to this of Queen Mary wearing : Queen Victoria's circlet and you can see the : distinct lack of large stone in the central : cross. : : : : Whereas the cross with the large stone in : the cross is clearly the one now worn by the : Norwegian Queen. : : : : I thus conclude that post 1910 Queen : Alexandra wore the regal circlet she : commissioned, as Queen Victoria's circlet : stayed with the Queen Consort, Queen Mary, : although she did not wear it once she had : her own crown. : : As for Queen Mary's crown, my source (Anna : Keay, The Crown Jewels: Official Guidebook : , (London: Historic Royal Palaces, 2002), : page 25) states: "The crown was : specially constructed so Queen Mary could : wear it as a circlet". And regardless : of whether or not this was an original : aspect of her crown, or a later adaptation, : it is clear from pictorial evidence, that : Queen Mary only wore Queen Victoria's : circlet once. Post-1911, when she had her : own crown, she wore her own circlet. And the : Queen Victoria Regal Circlet was not seen : again. : --Previous Message-- : : Thanks again Boffer. : : "her regal circlet" - I find that : phrase far too slight to conclude that Queen : Alexandra commissioned her own. : As you say we should be reading more about : the Cullinans before long!! : : With repect, more than one reference states : that Queen Mary altered her own crown. : Apart from Queen Victoria and her own small : crown, Queen Mary would have been the one to : introduce the detaching of the arches from : a queen consort's crown. I would have : thought. : Queen Elizabeth (QM) followed the idea and : had hers made that way. : : : : :
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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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