Does this help? Archived Message
Posted by Dawn on February 22, 2012, 10:55 pm, in reply to "Regal Circlets & Maltese tiara - part 1"
Source: Library of Congress collection. I read all of your interesting comments re: regal circlets of these queens currently under discussion here. Today, I found this picture of Queen Alexandra from the Library of Congress collection's "The Inter-mountain farmer and ranchman" (newspaper from Salt Lake City, UT, dated August 12, 1902....the year of King Edward VII's coronation). Is the picture helpful?? Note Alexandra's circlet here. --Previous Message-- : : I have reread Trond's blog and repeat that I : cannot see why Queen Alexandra had a piece : made specially to be lighter than the : Diamond Diadem made for George IV. : On becoming Queen in 1901, Alexandra had the : Diamond Diadem and the Regal Circlet from : Queen Victoria. : It makes no sense to me that she had a : virtual duplicate made of it. That part of : the story does not seem to be properly : supported. : : Yet it seems we cannot escape a connection : between Queen Alexandra and the Malteser : tiara first seen worn by Queen Maud in 1929. : : I don't think I have ever totally resolved : whether Queen Victoria had two Royal : Circlets, in effect. : Was the 1853 Regal Circlet a completely new : creation or a remodelling of Queen : Adelaide's? : I don't think the ledger is clear on that. : If a remodelling, was a completely new one : made in 1858 after the Hanoverian Claim? : Could there have been a spare empty frame or : partial Regal Circlet for Queen Alexandra to : later use for Maud? : : Some extracts from books, then the 1853 : ledger page: : From the 150 years Garrard book : In 1853, Garrard remade Queen Adelaide's : diamond circlet in order to provide a : setting for the Koh-i-noor and Cumberland : diamonds. However, within five years the : diadem was broken up to comply with the : judgement in settlement of the Hanoverian : claim. The diamonds had been removed from : Queen Charlotte's wedding gift, the 'large : brilliant stomacher' of the claim, by : Rundell in 1831 to furnish Queen Adelaide's : Coronation Crown. The crown was subsequently : stripped of its stones to make the 'Grand : Diadem'. : [which became Queen Victoria's Regal Circlet : in 1853] : An extract from Munn page 98 -- : In 1857, in settlement of the Hanoverian : claim to certain Crown diamonds, the Regal : Circlet reconstructed by Garrard in 1853 had : to be partially dismantled. It was remade : the following year [1858] using diamonds : provided by Garrard as well as others from : redundant royal jewellery, and was delivered : in 1859. : : : : My transcription - do is an abbreviation for : ditto : :
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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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