Re: For those who collect QEII's brooch images plus some additions Archived Message
Posted by Arthur  on January 12, 2015, 12:42 am, in reply to "For those who collect QEII's brooch images plus some additions"
Beth1,
on the two pictures you have posted a link, I think the brooch is this one:
According to Leslie Field, "this Cartier leaf-shaped brooch, framed in diamond baguettes, has a pavé-set diamond vein down the centre, and is set with irregularly shaped Indian-cut Ceylonese cabochon sapphires, and small round emeralds, amethysts and a ruby. The Duke of York [i.e. the future King George VI] bought it for his wife in 1928".
Queen Elizabeth has worn it several times in the 1940ies/early 1950ies, and very rarely later.
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