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    Re: New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara Archived Message

    Posted by wymanda on December 15, 2012, 6:44 pm, in reply to "Re: New info about Bernadotte small cut steel tiara "

    Hopefully they will lose the "Toybox" aquamarine thing that Madelaine wore as a teenager & keep this small tiara for Estelle.

    --Previous Message--
    : Neither of the cut steel jewels was part of
    : the Bernadotte Collection prior to Queen
    : Silvia discovering them somewhere in a
    : palace attic. So maybe the King decided to
    : gift the smaller one to the Crown Princess
    : at some point and put the rest into the
    : collection. It might not have been to Queen
    : Silvia's taste and I find it's a bit small
    : for a queen. It could be someone else's
    : property by I suspect it is Victoria's as it
    : has been worn by her exclusively up to now.
    :
    : --Previous Message--
    : In the new edition of Roger Lundgren’s
    : Swedish
    : magazine ‚Kungliga’, he wrote a two-page
    : article about the cut steel jewelry in the
    : Bernadotte collection.
    : According to him, all of the pieces
    : including the newly appeared small cut steel
    : tiara with matching haircomb originally
    : belonged to Queen Hortense of Holland who at
    : one point gave them as a gift to her niece
    : Joséphine of Leuchtenberg, later Queen
    : Josefina of Sweden.
    : As previously thought, they don't really
    : form a parure but are essentially Queen
    : Hortense's collection of early 19th century
    : cut steel jewels.
    : (Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of
    : Joséphine and Napoléon’s step-daughter, was
    : married to Napoléon’s brother Louis, and
    : Josefina was her niece, daughter of
    : Joséphine’s son Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke
    : of Leuchtenberg.)
    :
    : However, Lundgren calls the question why the
    : small cut steel tiara has stayed in the
    : vaults for such a long time a ‘mystery’.
    : The odd thing is that the ‘new’ small tiara
    : is officially labelled ‘privately owned’ by
    : the Court, which leads to the question why
    : parts of the Queen Hortense collection of
    : cut steel pieces are included in the
    : Bernadotte Foundation while others are
    : someone’s personal property.
    :
    : Lundgren also quotes Queen Silvia as saying
    : about the large cut steel tiara:
    : “It is so light and fragile that it almost
    : feels as if snow falls on your head when
    : you’re wearing it.”
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