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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

10 Days of Tiara's - Part 6

The Cartier Halo Tiara

Made by Cartier in 1936.

Purchased by the future King George VI for his wife the future Queen Elizabeth.


Worn by Princess Margaret

and Princess Anne,
this tiara was given to Queen Elizabeth for her 18th birthday.

Queen Elizabeth loaned it to
Catharine Middleton for her wedding to Prince William.

Have you ever seen a picture of Queen Elizabeth wearing it?

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Countdown to the Royal Wedding - Royal Wedding Gowns

Welcome to the Gracie Jewellery countdown to the Royal Wedding- Part 14
1 Day to go

Queen Victoria 1840

Princess Alexandra - the future Queen Alexandra - 1863

Princess May of Teck - the future Queen Mary - 1893


Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyons - the future Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother -1923


Princess Elizabeth - now Her Majesty The Queen - 1947

Princess Margaret Rose - Countess of Snowdon - 1960

Princess Anne - The Princess Royal - 1973

Diana - Princess of Wales - 1980

Sarah Ferguson - The Duchess of York - 1986

The Hon. Serena Stanhope - Viscountess Linley - 1993

Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones - Lady Sarah Chatto - 1994

Sophie Rys-Jones - Countess of Wessex - 1999

Camilla Parker-Bowles - The Duchess of Cornwall - 2005

Autumn Kelly - 2008

Next time - The Royal Invitation



Thursday, April 14, 2011

Royal Wedding Countdown - Tiara's


Today we start with the tiara's. Because what is a princess without a tiara!

The Russian Fringe Tiara.
Solid diamond bars in the shape of a peasant headdress. This was a gift to Princess Alexandra from the Ladies of Society on her Silver Wedding anniversary in 1888.

Queen Alexandra of Denmark was married to King Edward VII

Queen Mary. Born Princess May of Teck married King George V in 1893.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon) was married to King George VI

The Bow Knot Tiara. This tiara was made for Queen Mary by Garrard in 1914, using pearls she had been given as a wedding present.

The tiara originally had a top row of pearls. Do you see the pendant pearls on her necklaces? These were some that were on the top row.


Queen Elizabeth gave this tiara to Diana, Princess of Wales as a wedding gift.

The Diamond Fringe Tiara. This can also be worn as a necklace.

It was first worn by Queen Victoria in 1839. In this painting she holds her son Prince Arthur circa 1851.

A young Queen Mary

Princess Anne wore it on her wedding day as did her mother Queen Elizabeth.

The "Girls of Great Britain and Ireland" Tiara. In 1893 a committee was formed to raise money from the "Girls of Great Britain and Ireland" to purchase a wedding gift for Princess May of Teck. This tiara was purchased from Garrards.



Queen Mary gave this tiara to Queen Elizabeth as a wedding gift.

The scroll tiara is one of a half dozen tiara's the Queen Mother wore as the Duchess of York just after her marriage in 1823 to her accession to the throne in 1936. She gave it to Queen Elizabeth but she has never worn it in public.

Queen Elizabeth loaned the tiara to her sister, Princess Margaret in 1962

and then her daughter, Princess Anne in 1973.


Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother wore this tiara in the style of the day.

She gave the tiara to Princess Margaret.


Princess Michael of Kent wears the diamond tiara she inherited from her mother-in-law, Princess Marina of Greece,who married George VI's brother, the Duke of Kent in 1934.

The Duchess of Gloucester in the diamond and turqouise suite, given to her by here mother-in-law, Pricess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. These were given by Queen Mary to the former Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott married her son Prince Hnery, Duke of Gloucester in 1935.

These are just a few of the Royal Tiara's.

Next time, a Royal Lady in Pink

pictures from the Queen's Jewels by Leslie Field