Posted by Nellie on September 1, 2014, 8:24 am, in reply to "Re: Ha ha! (e)"
It see it all as so much more simple. Just royal ladies sharing some jewels in a practical way.
Merlin - I want to quibble with you. Neither a Queen Regnant nor a King inherits any heirloom of the crown. The iem belongs to the Crown and not to the Monarch.
I think if you see it my way, the puzzle is no longer puzzling.
--Previous Message-- : : Exactly, I meant to write in my previous : that the reason QEII waived her inheritance : of the fringe necklace was because her own : London fringe was so similar. : But I was in a hurry to go out and I spelt : waived without a i. : And to Arthur I will be very interested if : someone can produce evidence of Queen : Elizabeth wearing the fringe necklace as : consort. : It would an irony that she only started : wearing a necklace she had been entitled to : at the moment she was no longer Queen. : : : --Previous Message-- : : I have it! : : QEII had her own London fringe necklace. So : similar to the heirloom one. : So QEII lent the heirloom one to QEQM. : : But all theories require Queen Mary to have : hung on to an heirloom fringe and I don't : think that was like her. : : Edit: perhaps on QEQM becoming Queen, Queen : Mary had offered the heirloom one but QEQM : could not wear it as a tiara - effectively. : None of them could, so Queen Mary offered : her own fringe tiara to Queen Elizabeth (QM) : instead. : : --Previous Message-- : Merlin, : : your suggestion that the Fringe Necklace was : bequeathed by Queen Mary to Queen-Mother : Elizabeth relies on the fact that the : Queen-Mother never wore this necklace before : 1953 and wore it quite frequently after this : date. That makes it a plausible argument. : : Nevertheless, we can also notice that Queen : Mary was never seen wearing Queen Adelaide's : Fringe (whether as a tiara or as a necklace) : after the 1920s. As Queen Adelaide's Fringe : was a Crown heirloom, it makes sense that : Queen Mary handed this necklace/tiara to : Queen Elizabeth in 1936. After, for whatever : reason, Queen Elizabeth never wore it during : her husband's reign, but we can not exclude : that the necklace was already at her : disposal from the late 1930s on. : : : --Previous Message-- : : Arthur might well be right I don't see much : evidence of a third fringe. : What I do still think is that there is no : visual evidence I have ever seen of QEQM : wearing a fringe necklace as Queen. : All those evening events in Canada and South : Africa along with a host at home. : I could well accept that on Queen Mary's : death in 1953 the present Queen waved her : bequest of the Diamond Fringe Necklace and : let her Mother have a life time loan of it. : I come back to my original point that it is : 1953 of all years that QEQM starts to wear : the fringe necklace. : And from then it comes out often. : :
on September 1, 2014, 8:24 am, in reply to "