*contains affiliate links* Queen Elizabeth II was an icon during her lifetime, and she became the longest-reigning British monarch in 2022. Elizabeth II: A Queen for Our Time by Chris Jackson was released in 2021, a year before the death of this remarkable woman. This is, first and foremost, a book filled to the brim [read more]
The Burmese Ruby Tiara is one of the tiaras that Queen Elizabeth II added to her extensive collection herself. Embed from Getty Images In the 1970s, she commissioned the tiara from the jeweller Garrard to add one with rubies to her collection. It was created from diamonds taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad Tiara, which [read more]
Queen Mary’s Stomacher is “formed as three linked articulated brooches of tapering and delicately scrolled outline, the stones in cut-down pavé and millegrain settings, each brooch suspending three pear-shaped pendants, formed of brilliant clusters, and two brilliant pendants, the smallest brooch with a fourth pear-shaped pendant.” The stomacher was made for Queen Mary in 1920 [read more]
Queen Mary’s Lover’s Knot Brooch is “in the form of a knotted, brilliant-set bow, the tail of each ribbon made with two articulated joints.” Embed from Getty Images Queen Mary bought the brooch from Garrard in 1932, and it became one of six bow brooches she owed. It was bequeathed to Queen Elizabeth II in [read more]
The Delhi Durbar Necklace and Cullinan VII Pendant is a “set with eight cabochon emeralds, three cushion-shaped, four oval and one lozenge-shaped, in cut-down gold and pave-set diamond collets, between six large brilliants in platinum claw settings, on a double platinum chain set with 94 small brilliants, the central emerald suspending a pave-set pear-shaped emerald [read more]
The Cullinan VI and VIII Brooch consists of a “marquise pendant (Cullinan VI), suspended from an emerald-cut stone (Cullinan VIII), set on a fine radiating platinum web in symmetrically scrolling and foliate millegrain and pavé-set brilliant border.” Embed from Getty Images The Cullinan VI diamond was purchased in 1908 from the diamond cutter Asscher by [read more]
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