The Burmese Ruby Tiara

The Burmese Ruby Tiara is one of the tiaras that Queen Elizabeth II added to her extensive collection herself.

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 had been a wedding gift. The Nizam had told Elizabeth to pick something from Cartier herself. The 96 rubies that were used had been a wedding gift from the people of Burma.

The stones were all set in a rose motif reminiscent of the Tudor rose.

King Charles III inherited the tiara in 2022, and his wife, Queen Camilla, wore it for the first time during the South Korean State banquet in November 2023.