Re: Countess Estelle's / Queen Sofia's tiara bought back by Swedish Royal family? Archived Message
Posted by Boris  on February 28, 2012, 11:10 am, in reply to "Re: Countess Estelle's / Queen Sofia's tiara bought back by Swedish Royal family?"
Thanks a lot for sharing this, Claes!
It answers one question - definitely pink tourmalines in the tiara, not 'white sapphires' as falsely stated by Göran Alm and also in the article I linked.
The most important question now - can the source for the Swedish RF buying it back, Norwegian writer Kjell Arne Totland, considered to be reliable?
As far as I have heard, he's quite an expert when it comes to current matters of royal jewelry and fashions and is supposed to have good connections.
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: Great news!
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: From the last owner, Count Folke Bernadotte,
: living here at Uppsala like me, I got a
: photo showing the tiara with other jewels of
: pink tourmalines placed on a table. A photo
: he took for the insurance.
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: --Previous Message--
: According to Norwegian journalist court
: reporter Kjell Arne Totland, “a member of
: the Swedish Royal Family” has bought back
: the tiara which once belonged to Queen Sofia
: and then to Countess Estelle Bernadotte av
: Wisborg, alternately described as being set
: with diamonds and pink tourmalines or white
: sapphires.
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: It was worn by Queen Sofia at her 1873
: coronation as Queen of Norway and Trond N.
: Isaksen confirmed in his blog a few days ago
: that Countess Estelle’s descendants recently
: sold it.
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: If true, an intriguing and major
: (re-)addition to the Bernadotte collection –
: link to article:
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: http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/hovbloggen/2012/02/prinsessan-estelles-finaste-fodelsegava
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: Countess Estelle with the tiara:
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: Queen Sofia (von Nassau) with the tiara:
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