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    Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace Archived Message

    Posted by Barbara D. on August 21, 2014, 10:59 am, in reply to "Re: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's Emerald Necklace"


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    : We can also notice that Camilla wore the
    : earrings of the demi-parure only once (the
    : 2009 ‘Peter Pan’ performance), whereas she
    : wore her personal modern chandelier diamond
    : earrings on the two 2010 outings.
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    : As it is often the case with the jewels
    : presented by the Middle-Eastern rulers, the
    : stones seem to be of prime quality (in this
    : case, beautiful rectangular emeralds of a
    : fair size, and with a deep green colour,
    : with hardly no inclusions visible), but
    : unfortunately, they are set up in a modern,
    : but very plain, uninspired design (the
    : emeralds, each framed by a thin diamond
    : border, are strung together, next to each
    : other, without intermediary elements, for
    : instance diamond spacers), which gives the
    : jewel a rather heavy, disappointing look.
    :
    : I would dream that Camilla (discreetly)
    : brings her Saudi jewels to Garrard or
    : another skilled jeweller to dismantle the
    : jewels and reuse the beautiful stones in new
    : jewels of a more elegant and traditional
    : design (for example, I think these
    : rectangular emeralds would fit perfectly if
    : they were integrated into a jewel with
    : diamond Greek meander motives). Just my very
    : own, personal, subjective and debatable
    : opinion, of course.
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    Thank you for these lovely, watermark-free pictures of The Duchess!

    These jewels (the emerald ones) are again an example for how taste differs. It's particularly this 'geometric', puristic setting which makes me fond of this necklace. I think it makes it wearable for grand as well as for less formal occasions. It's from all three (assumed) Saudi necklaces the most interesting... in my personal, subjective and also debatable opinion .

    On the other side, I don't care for the other two necklaces - the ruby is 'too much' and the sapphire one looks like 'unfinished' for me. The sapphire necklace has imo a very uninspired setting...'we have a chain of diamonds and oh, we could hang on some sapphires' .

    I share your wish of transformation for the latter two necklaces. The ruby necklace would have a true potential for a lovely choker with some fringes, the jeweller would not even have to change the whole design, but to 'tone it down' a bit would do wonders, wouldn't it? And the sapphire necklace...well, I'd suggest a complete resetting.


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