Previous Message

It now belongs to Chaumet but Any idea who sold it at the Leuchtenberg auction?

Could it be also the King of Belgium for their second son, the count of Flanders.

Previous Message

I doubt they bought two tiara's for a wife that was not really in the cards. There have been suggestions that some wanted him to marry Juliana of the Netherlands but that would have lost him the inheritance rights in Belgium as Belgian dynasts are by law forbidden to marry an Orange-Nassau.
I have not heard of any other proposed bride for the count of Flanders. The two youngest Luxembourg princesses were only one and two years older but both married in the early 1920's and by that time Charles was barely an adult. One of the Italian princesses might have been an option however there were speculations about his brother Leopold marrying one of them but I don't remember ever reading anything about him.

Previous Message

There was a story about a aristocratic lady from the UK…..

Previous Message

It now belongs to Chaumet but Any idea who sold it at the Leuchtenberg auction?

Could it be also the King of Belgium for their second son, the count of Flanders.

Previous Message

King Albert I bought at Vevey only one tiara for his Son Charles 's future wife. As second Son he should never receive a tiara. He was only 18 years old. I will not come back about his private life . But at the end of his life he gave the tiara to his Sister Marie José
who never wore it because she was to old. Her Daughter Marie Gabrielle sold it at an Auction. I don't know what she did with the money her Daughter had a very Rich Father de Balkany.

Previous Message

Maria Gabriella had divorced her husband and had a rather hefty tax-bill she had to pay. That is as far as I've read the reason she decided to sell most of her grand jewels.

Previous Message

I can understand why she sold the grand jewels and kept the bandeau wich can also be worn as necklace. And the aquamarine as brooch or pendant.