Posted by Nellie on January 5, 2017, 11:55 pm, in reply to "Re: Stunning"
As regard George IV and his mistress Lady Coningham it is thought that he gave her the Diamond Diadem (as we now know it). The Lady is reported to have returned many jewels on his death.
Here are parts of things I have posted before concerning the Hanoverian Claim:
Some extracts from Bury mentioning Lady Conyngham, friend of George IV, the son of Queen Charlotte. The true extent of jewellery given by the King to Lady Conyngham can only be hazarded, despite what is now known of his use of the Crown Jewels for her benefit. [Note that Crown Jewels here does not refer to the jewels of the Regalia, but ornaments intended to stay with the Crown. A few were identified as England but others as Hanover.] The King's cavalier redeployment [sic] of stones from his mother's jewellery created appalling problems for his successors, for Queen Charlotte left quite specific instructions for her jewels which had eventually to be implemented. The splendour of Lady Conyngham's 'family pearls' was due to their having been removed by the King's command from his mother's jewellery. On the king's death Lady Conyngham returned the jewels she understood ought not have been given to her. But alteration of pieces had been going on. Queen Charlotte had engraved details on brass plates on the fitted boxes for her jewels. Queen Adelaide made it plain that some of the articles listed on the brass plates attached to Queen Charlotte's jewel boxes were missing when the cases passed to her in 1830.
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