Re: QEQM sapphire and diamond flower brooch Archived Message
Posted by LDMJ  on September 4, 2014, 6:46 am, in reply to "Re: QEQM sapphire and diamond flower brooch"
Thank you - I have Field's tome of the Royal Jewels and this brooch is not in it, also the brooch would still have been with the Queen Mother at the time of publication 1987 & 1992, so I would be interested to know which of Leslie Field's books you have with this in it - so that I can then try to acquire a copy
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: According to Field, the Queen Mother's brooch
: was a birthday gift from King George VI. And
: QEQM wore this brooch from the late
: 1930s/early 1940s on, so long before
: Princess Marina's death (on the picture
: posted by Nellie, Princess Marina is wearing
: her pair of brooches in May 1946).
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: It is possible that Cartier (by whom both
: King George VI and his brother the Duke of
: Kent were clients) had several exemplars of
: these brooches made, and that both royal
: brothers chose (deliberately or not) the
: same jewel for their respective wives.
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: I wonder if Princess Marina might not have
: left the brooch (or both) to the Queen
: Mother?
: I doubt that they would have both had the
: same brooch at the same time.
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