Queen Marie Amelie and the French Crown JewelsArchived Message
Posted by malluu on January 10, 2017, 10:26 am
I was reading Vincent Meylan's new book (which I highly recommend) and he briefly mentioned that Queen Marie Amelie didn't use the French Crown Jewels. It was an off hand comment and not the point of the section but I remembered that Lorenzo had said something similar in the past. It got me wondering why Queen Marie Amelie didn't use the crown jewels. Was it personal or political? What did they do with the jewels during the almost two decades of her husband's reign? It couldn't have been easy to store a collection of that size and value.
And a picture of Queen Marie Amelie wearing her fabulous sapphires because I can't post something without a picture.