Queen Mary’s Cluster Earrings




queen elizabeth ii cluster earrings
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Queen Mary’s Cluster Earrings are “each with a large cushion-cut brilliant with two concentric millegrain and pavé-set bands of small diamonds.”1

Queen Mary had the earrings created in 1939 by having the Mackinnon diamonds removed. These diamonds had initially been a pair of solitaire earrings given to her for her wedding in 1893 by Sir Willian Mackinnon. She had them replaced with two large brilliants, which had also been given to her as a wedding present.

Queen Elizabeth II inherited the earrings in 1953.

  1. The Queen’s Diamonds by Hugh Roberts p.212






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