Re: Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces Archived Message
Posted by Arthur  on February 8, 2015, 5:54 pm, in reply to "Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces"
Thank you, Baxter, for this wonderful and precious work!
I fully agree with you about the 'everyday' pearls and George V's Silver Jubilee pearl necklace. Field adds that the latter was worn by the young Princess Elizabeth at her father's coronation in 1937, which makes it easier to identify it:
She also frequently wore it as a young woman, but very rarely after the mid-1950s. Of course, when she grew up, the necklace looked closer to her neck than when she was in her early teen-age.
The Queen (then still Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh) is seen here in 1950, with baby Princess Anne:
I have less certainty about the 'longer graduated pearl' necklace being the Qatari Coronation gift. It is a possibility, and the fact that the Queen has worn it for her Golden Jubilee celebration in 2002 might be a clue in favour of this hypothesis.
There are at least two other three-strand pearl necklaces, with which Queen Elizabeth II was seen, and which could also be the Qatari Coronation gift:
4) "very long three-strand pearl necklace"
I have seen the Queen only once with this long necklace, whose three strands are separated by large gaps (on 4th August 2001, for a ballett performance at Govent Garden Royal Opera House, to celebrate the Queen Mother's 101st birthday):
    
(Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images for the first 4 pictures; courtesy of Lilian and Victor Hochhauser for the last one) - Direct link to Getty pictures in case they do not appear:
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9/the-queen-stepping-from-the-official-car-onto-the-photo-dactualit%C3%A9/52111056
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9/the-queen-looking-thoughtful-arriving-at-the-royal-photo-dactualit%C3%A9/52110655
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9/the-queen-arriving-at-the-royal-opera-house-in-photo-dactualit%C3%A9/52105507
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/photo-d%27actualit%C3%A9/the-queen-and-queen-mother-arriving-at-the-royal-photo-dactualit%C3%A9/52112293
5) "Long three-strand pearl necklace"
This necklace is the one pictured in Angela Kelly's book Dressing the Queen - The Jubilee Wardrobe, page 90. It has a distinctive clasp made of a central pearl into a foliate motif whose axis is diagonal. The three strands are very close to each other.
If I am not wrong, the Queen wears this necklace mostly for formal engagements:
October 2000: official visit to Pope Saint John Paul II:
(Picture: AP Photo/Alessandro Bianchi)
 
21 October 2011: Parliamentary Reception at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia:
3 June 2013: reception for the Royal National Institute for the Blind at St James Palace in London:
9 November 2013: Festival of Remembrance at the the Royal Albert Hall in London:
 
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- Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces - Baxter February 8, 2015, 2:40 am
- 'Everyday' pearls - Baxter February 8, 2015, 2:41 am
- George V pearl necklace - Baxter February 8, 2015, 2:42 am
- Longer graduated pearls - Baxter February 8, 2015, 2:44 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces - Nellie February 8, 2015, 3:27 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces - joye February 8, 2015, 8:18 am
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces - Arthur February 8, 2015, 5:54 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II - daytime triple strand pearl necklaces - jinja February 8, 2015, 7:35 pm
- Re: QEII - triple strand pearl necklaces - evening #4 - Baxter February 8, 2015, 11:36 pm
- Re: QEII - triple strand pearl necklaces - evening #5 - Baxter February 8, 2015, 11:49 pm
- Re: QEII - triple strand pearl necklaces - evening #6 - Baxter February 8, 2015, 11:57 pm
- Re: Queen Elizabeth II - triple strand pearl necklaces #7 - Arthur February 9, 2015, 4:31 pm
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