After considering the error Arthur discovered in Roberts regarding Queen Mary's cluster earrings, I now suspect that the date in Roberts relating to when QEQM had a fringe tiara mounted as a necklace is most likely a mistake. Of course, unless we could check the source, we may never know.
--Previous Message-- : : Wow! I have just got to read all this. Thank : you all for the contributions to the : discsussion. I'm not sure where to begin to : comment. I had better just make a few : observations. I will not even get out : Roberts. Perhaps I should but will not. : : Queen Alexandra kept Queen Victoria's small : diamond crown, I think. If I recall : correctly, Queen Mary wrote to her beloved : Aunt Augusta about the difficulty of getting : some jewels handed over. I wonder if we : will ever know if the small crown passed : through Queen Mary's record books. : : During the reign of Edward VIII it is : possible that Queen Mary contrived to keep : the principal royal jewels, heirloom amd : traditional, safe in her own care, there : being no queen consort, rather than : relinquish them to her son. [Maybe later : on, Queen Elizabeth (QM) viewed that as a : part-precedent for herself to apply.] As : the likelihood of Bertie succeeding grew, : perhaps Queen Mary beagn to plan jewels for : the next Queen. Queen Mary knew better than : most about essential dignity and majesty for : a queen. And Queen Mary was generous in : fitting out many royal ladies in jewels. : : I have suggested that Queen Mary eventually : gave her own fringe tiara to Queen Elizabeth : (QM) being conscious that the heirloom : fringe was not suited. It would seem that : every British royal lady had to have a : fringe, or two. I suggest that Queen Mary : was allowed to use the heirloom fringe. It : would have been her only fringe but we do : not have evidence she ever made use of it in : her dowager years. : : It has been shown that the wonderful QD does : contain some errors, and it would be rare if : such a huge work did not. I believe Roberts : compiled the work of quite a team of : researchers, and their work might have : varied in diligence. I recall a small : souvenir book published by the Royal : Collection where the contributors had not : researched back further than Menkes and : Field, such that a glaring error was : included. If research had started back with : original and contemporary sources then an : error made by Menkes would not have been : perpetuated. : : Today's researchers could still be including : similar works in their current research, but : I would hope not, well, not to rely on them : heavily. Further, research in the royal : sphere is not as simple as a Royal : Collection person "popping next : door" to the Royal Archives, or to : private and personal records in possession : of current royals. : : This has been another highlight thread. : Must save lots of it. : : : : :
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