Re: Dogwood emerald and diamond necklace Archived Message
Posted by joye on January 31, 2016, 10:02 pm, in reply to "Re: Dogwood emerald and diamond necklace"
The 1951 dogwood necklace/earrings, gift from British Colombia. Sparkler found this 2007. abbn --Previous Message-- : Dear Arthur, : : Please find below my answer to your several : questions : : : The Dogwood emerald, diamond and gold : necklace and the jade and diamond necklace : are two different necklaces. : : In fact, the Dogwood emerald necklace is not : a wedding gift ! It was a gift from her : travel in Canada in 1951. : : She has only worn this necklace once I : think...when she was given the necklace. : : To be honest with you, I don't like the : design of this necklace (with a lot of : gold). : : To my mind, It could be a necklace for young : royals (for exemple the Duchess of : Cambridge) : : Moreover, I tell you the incredible story of : the discover of this necklace : : : Few years ago (On least 6 years because I : didn't live in Paris at that time) we had : discovered on this board, that Queen : Elizabeth II had two different necklaces. : : That was an incredible game because Sparkler : from Canada (she had no scanner) sent me via : Joye from Australia a letter with a photo of : the emerald and diamond necklace in order to : be posted on this board what I have done : afterwards.... : : Unfortuntelty, I can"t post a photo of : the necklace of the board (on PDF.DOC) but : if you want I can send you a photo of this : necklace by email ! : : Last but not least when I read Vincent's : english and your own writting I am little : "jealous" : I serioulsy need to : improve my nivel of english. : : Franck : : : --Previous Message-- : Thank you, Franck, for your thorough : inventory : of the emerald rings in the collection of : Queen Elizabeth II. : : Regarding the Dogwood emerald necklace: : Leslie Field mentions that Queen Elizabeth : II " was also given an emerald and : diamond necklace as a wedding present : [therefore in 1947] by the city of : Victoria, British Columbia, in the shape of : dogwood flowers, the province's emblem, but : the Queen has never worn this in public : ". : : Yet, I found mention of such a gift neither : in the list of the Queen's wedding gifts : that you have previously published on this : board, nor in the articles of the Canadian : press reporting about Canadian royal wedding : gifts published in 2011 at the time of the : wedding of the Duke and Duchess of : Cambridge, nor in Buckingham Palace's summer : exhibition about the Queen's wedding gifts : organized in 2007 on the occasion of Queen : Elizabeth II's and Prince Philip's diamond : wedding anniversary: : : : https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/a-royal-wedding-20-november-1947 : : : http://46.236.36.161/microsites/royalwedding1947/ : This is quite puzzling and surprising, as I : suppose that an emerald and diamond necklace : would have been quite a remarkable gift : among all the wedding gifts... : : Another source of confusion comes from the : fact that, in May 1971 , Queen Elizabeth II : wore, during an official dinner in Victoria, : capital of British Columbia, a necklace that : she had never worn before or after, which : seems to be also a gift from the authorities : of British Columbia, because the archives of : British Columbia have a picture of this : necklace (and of the matching bracelet and : earrings). But according to the caption (and : to the colours) of this picture, the green : stones are jade, not emeralds. And during : this dinner, Queen received from the : Government of British Columbia the insignia : of the British Columbian order of the... : Dogwood! : : : : : (the last picture was initially posted by : Nellie, I think) : : The golden elements of the bracelet seem to : have the shape of five-petalled flowers. : Could it be dogwood flowers? : And could Leslie Field have made a confusion : about the wedding gift from British : Columbia? Could it have beeen made of jade : and gold rather than emeralds and diamonds? : Or could the 1947 wedding present and the : 1971 demi-parure be two differents sets of : jewels, but both with dogwood flowers motifs : and both presented by the authorities of : British Columbia? : : A lot of questions, and so far very few : answers... : : : : :
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